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Title: SUM: Great Expectations (Jack Davenport) / Apostasy (Harriet Walter)

Author: David Eagleman

Narrator: Jack Davenport, Harriet Walter

Format: Highlights

Length: 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-24-10

Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Two stories from SUM: Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman.

In 'Great Expectations', read by Jack Davenport, you are able to determine your own hereafter, which has become privatized and computerized.

In 'Apostasy', read by Harriet Walter, you meet God, and to your surprise and delight she is like no god that humans have conceived.

In SUM, David Eagleman entertains 40 fictional possibilities of life beyond death. With wit and humanity, he asks the key questions about existence, hope, technology and love. These stories are full of big ideas and bold imagination.

This release is one of 20 pairings of readings from the audiobook, which assembles a stellar cast of narrators who bring the scenarios of SUM brilliantly alive: Gillian Anderson, Emily Blunt, Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker, Jack Davenport, Lisa Dwan, David Eagleman, Noel Fielding, Kerry Fox, Stephen Fry, Clarke Peters, Lemn Sissay and Harriet Walter.

Critic Reviews:

"You will not read a more dazzling book this year." (Stephen Fry)

"SUM has the unaccountable, jaw-dropping quality of genius." (OBSERVER)

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Title: SUM: Mary (David Eagleman) / Spirals (Kerry Fox)

Author: David Eagleman

Narrator: David Eagleman, Kerry Fox

Format: Highlights

Length: 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-24-10

Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Two stories from SUM: Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman.

In 'Mary', read by David Eagleman, you find Mary Shelley sitting on a throne and learn that Frankenstein is God's favourite book.

In 'Spirals', read by Kerry Fox, you discover that your Creator is a species of small, dim-witted, obtuse creatures.

In SUM, David Eagleman entertains 40 fictional possibilities of life beyond death. With wit and humanity, he asks the key questions about existence, hope, technology and love. These stories are full of big ideas and bold imagination.

This release is one of 20 pairings of readings from the audiobook, which assembles a stellar cast of narrators who bring the scenarios of SUM brilliantly alive: Gillian Anderson, Emily Blunt, Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker, Jack Davenport, Lisa Dwan, David Eagleman, Noel Fielding, Kerry Fox, Stephen Fry, Clarke Peters, Lemn Sissay and Harriet Walter.

Critic Reviews:

"You will not read a more dazzling book this year." (Stephen Fry)

"SUM has the unaccountable, jaw-dropping quality of genius." (OBSERVER)

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Title: SUM: Adhesion (Lisa Dwan) / Conservation (Clarke Peters)

Author: David Eagleman

Narrator: Lisa Dwan, Clarke Peters

Format: Highlights

Length: 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-24-10

Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Two stories from SUM: Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman.

In 'Adhesion', read by Lisa Dwan, we are the products of large beings that camp out on asteroids and call themselves Collectors.

In 'Conservation', read by Clarke Peters, we deduce that the genesis of the universe consisted not of the Big Bang, but the uneventful, hushed production of a single quark.

In SUM, David Eagleman entertains 40 fictional possibilities of life beyond death. With wit and humanity, he asks the key questions about existence, hope, technology and love. These stories are full of big ideas and bold imagination.

This release is one of 20 pairings of readings from the audiobook, which assembles a stellar cast of narrators who bring the scenarios of SUM brilliantly alive: Gillian Anderson, Emily Blunt, Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker, Jack Davenport, Lisa Dwan, David Eagleman, Noel Fielding, Kerry Fox, Stephen Fry, Clarke Peters, Lemn Sissay and Harriet Walter.

Critic Reviews:

"You will not read a more dazzling book this year." (Stephen Fry)

"SUM has the unaccountable, jaw-dropping quality of genius." (OBSERVER)

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Title: SUM: Oz (Jack Davenport) / Death Switch (Harriet Walter)

Author: David Eagleman

Narrator: Jack Davenport, Harriet Walter

Format: Highlights

Length: 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-24-10

Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Two stories from SUM: Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman.

In 'Oz', read by Jack Davenport, at the outset of the afterlife you find a scroll that informs you that you now have the opportunity to meet the Creator of the universe.

In 'Death Switch', read by Harriet Walter, there is no afterlife but a version of us lives on nonetheless, and your body is programmed with a death switch to confirm you are dead.

In SUM, David Eagleman entertains 40 fictional possibilities of life beyond death. With wit and humanity, he asks the key questions about existence, hope, technology and love. These stories are full of big ideas and bold imagination.

This release is one of 20 pairings of readings from the audiobook, which assembles a stellar cast of narrators who bring the scenarios of SUM brilliantly alive: Gillian Anderson, Emily Blunt, Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker, Jack Davenport, Lisa Dwan, David Eagleman, Noel Fielding, Kerry Fox, Stephen Fry, Clarke Peters, Lemn Sissay and Harriet Walter.

Critic Reviews:

"You will not read a more dazzling book this year." (Stephen Fry)

"SUM has the unaccountable, jaw-dropping quality of genius." (OBSERVER)

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Title: SUM: Prism (Jarvis Cocker) / Search (Kerry Fox)

Author: David Eagleman

Narrator: Jarvis Cocker, Kerry Fox

Format: Highlights

Length: 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-24-10

Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Two stories from SUM: Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman.

In 'Prism', read by Jarvis Cocker, in the afterlife you are split into your multiple selves at all possible ages.

In 'Search', read by Kerry Fox, in the moment of transition between life and death your thousand trillion trillion atoms begin to blend into the earth around you, so that you're not gone but taking on different forms.

In SUM, David Eagleman entertains 40 fictional possibilities of life beyond death. With wit and humanity, he asks the key questions about existence, hope, technology and love. These stories are full of big ideas and bold imagination.

This release is one of 20 pairings of readings from the audiobook, which assembles a stellar cast of narrators who bring the scenarios of SUM brilliantly alive: Gillian Anderson, Emily Blunt, Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker, Jack Davenport, Lisa Dwan, David Eagleman, Noel Fielding, Kerry Fox, Stephen Fry, Clarke Peters, Lemn Sissay and Harriet Walter.

Critic Reviews:

"You will not read a more dazzling book this year." (Stephen Fry)

"SUM has the unaccountable, jaw-dropping quality of genius." (OBSERVER)

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Title: SUM: Descent of Species (Jarvis Cocker) / Microbe (Nick Cave)

Author: David Eagleman

Narrator: Jarvis Cocker, Nick Cave

Format: Highlights

Length: 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-24-10

Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Two stories from SUM: Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman.

In 'Descent of Species', read by Jarvis Cocker, you can choose whatever you would like to be in the next life.

In 'Microbe', read by Nick Cave, our bodies decompose upon death, and the floods of microbes living inside us move on to better places.

In SUM, David Eagleman entertains 40 fictional possibilities of life beyond death. With wit and humanity, he asks the key questions about existence, hope, technology and love. These stories are full of big ideas and bold imagination.

This release is one of 20 pairings of readings from the audiobook, which assembles a stellar cast of narrators who bring the scenarios of SUM brilliantly alive: Gillian Anderson, Emily Blunt, Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker, Jack Davenport, Lisa Dwan, David Eagleman, Noel Fielding, Kerry Fox, Stephen Fry, Clarke Peters, Lemn Sissay and Harriet Walter.

Critic Reviews:

"You will not read a more dazzling book this year." (Stephen Fry)

"SUM has the unaccountable, jaw-dropping quality of genius." (OBSERVER)

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Title: SUM: Giantess (Harriet Walter) / Graveyard of the Gods (Jack Davenport)

Author: David Eagleman

Narrator: Harriet Walter, Jack Davenport

Format: Highlights

Length: 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-24-10

Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Two stories from SUM: Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman.

In 'Giantess', read by Harriet Walter, you meet a galactic neighbour who explains that Earth is part of an immeasurable living mass called the Giantess.

In 'Graveyard of the Gods', read by Jack Davenport, you realise that anything we create becomes part of our afterlife, including the gods we created.

In SUM, David Eagleman entertains 40 fictional possibilities of life beyond death. With wit and humanity, he asks the key questions about existence, hope, technology and love. These stories are full of big ideas and bold imagination.

This release is one of 20 pairings of readings from the audiobook, which assembles a stellar cast of narrators who bring the scenarios of SUM brilliantly alive: Gillian Anderson, Emily Blunt, Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker, Jack Davenport, Lisa Dwan, David Eagleman, Noel Fielding, Kerry Fox, Stephen Fry, Clarke Peters, Lemn Sissay and Harriet Walter.

Critic Reviews:

"You will not read a more dazzling book this year." (Stephen Fry)

"SUM has the unaccountable, jaw-dropping quality of genius." (OBSERVER)

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Title: Ophold p vejen [Stay on the Road]

Author: Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Narrator: Bent Otto Hansen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-01-10

Publisher: Viatone

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Om et ordinrt menneske, slger af profession, der ved en tilfldighed bliver deltager i nogle pensionerede juristers dmoniske selskabsleg med retssag og domstol.

Please note: This audiobook is in Danish>

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Title: Blood Kin

Author: Ceridwen Dovey

Narrator: James Jenner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-18-09

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Ceridwen Dovey's debut novel is a stunning literary achievement and an acute character study of three men held captive after a military coup. All linked closely with the deposed president, the portraitist longs for his pregnant wife, the chef takes solace in preparing meals for the new regime, and the barber lives with the knowledge that he'd often held a razor to the throat of the man responsible for his brother's death.

©2008 Ceridwen Dovey; (P)2008 Recorded Books, LLC

Critic Reviews:

"Dovey's prose gives the events an air of magic and allows this small, fable-like story to plainly illustrate the old axiom about power's ability to corrupt." (Publishers Weekly)

"The brief but intense story concludes in a violent cycle of death, birth and grim continuity. A dense, dark, impressively controlled first work." (Kirkus Reviews)

Members Reviews:

Intriguing

A political coup changes the government of a country and 3 men are taken into custody for reason they don't understand. As the story unfolds from each man's point of view an interesting story of the interrelationships evolves.

Confusing

It was hard to follow the plot with all the different points of view. I felt indifferent towards most characters. There wasn't enough back story to get invested.

Refreshing and engaging

From the first page I was really intrigued by this story - it has a great combination of insightful observations on human nature with a plot that moves along, interesting situations and characters. It is quite a unique book, refreshing - and I have recommended to others.

Four Stars

ok read

The blood line of political corruption

When we think of the corruption of power, what typically comes to mind are the monsters of history: the dictators, the generalissimos, the presidents-for-life. While it's true that these sorts who do the most obvious damage, it's also true that, if power corrupts, it negatively affects everyone who benefits from it. In her Blood Kin, Dovey demonstrates just how far the blood line of political corruption extends by focusing on the lives of three of its indirect beneficiaries: the portraitist, barber, and chef.

These three characters remain unnamed throughout the entire novel--as is appropriate, first because they aren't luminaries but rather "ordinary," anonymous people; second because they're everyperson--they're you and me--in their capacity for being corrupted through association. In the novel's second part, these three anonymous voices are joined by three more, this time female. Moreover, none of the characters in the novel are named, neither the dictator whose political fall land the six members of the Greek chorus (so to speak) in turmoil, nor even the country where all this is taking place. Again, these details don't matter, because the country is everycountry.

One of the especially fine qualities of this novel is its willingness to wrestle with fundamental questions about human decency in the face of evil. The barber, painter, and chef, for example, each represent one possible response to tyranny: the barber is a coward, the painter pretends to be above politics, and the chef is a thuggish, willing collaborator. Given that these characters are everypersons, they serve as mirrors for readers that ask of us our own responses.

The eerie anonymity of the novel's characters and place gave me a taste, sometimes, of Kafka.

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Title: Yvonne Keuls' Favorieten [Yvonne Keuls' Favorites]

Author: Yvonne Keuls

Narrator: Yvonne Keuls

Format: Unabridged

Length: 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-23-09

Publisher: First Monkey Media

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Please note: This audiobook is in Dutch.