Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: Goats

Author: Mark Jude Poirier

Narrator: Ray Porter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-17-12

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Fourteen-year-old Ellis is getting ready to leave the Southwest for a boarding school in the East. This means leaving behind the only real father he has ever known, Goat Man. Goat Man has been raising a herd of goats all the while teaching Ellis the meaning of stability, caretaking, and commitment. And when a skeptical Ellis returns for spring break, he and Goat Man will be forced to re-evaluate their relationship.

Critic Reviews:

"Surprisingly winning...Goats has a mellow, sidelong charm and an intelligence that sneaks up on you." (Washington Post)

Members Reviews:

A Well Written & Interesting Book

I found this book after watching the movie(excellent movie) as I'm sure many others have done. As in most cases the book provides more of the story and differs from the movie. In some cases the movie is the exact oposite of the book. This book kept me interested and was a very easy read for a 350 page book(finished it in about 4 days of sporatic reading). This is one I could definitely read again. Check it out... Goat Man Rocks!!!

Good Fiction Read

This is an enjoyable "Coming of Age" novel about a teen growing up in southern Arizona with his flighty mother and "botanist" father figure. Well-written enough to be made into an independent film.

I loved this story.. Can not wait for the movie to come out.

Amazing story!!

Mark Poirier captures you and you become part of the story. I could not put the book down. You just can not anticipate what is going to happen next. I am eager for the movie to come out.

The title alone makes the book a sleeper, but it a book that everyone should read.

Bob Cromwell should have given Goats 5 stars

Bob is mad because when I was in 8th grade and he was in like 11th, my friend Joe and I filled his suitcase with dead bugs on our way back from Mexico. Joe and me were forced to sit in the back of a pickup truck beause of Bob--he hogged up the front. So now, after he gave my novel a lousy 4 stars, I feel OK about filling his bag with dead bugs, and I look forward to doing it again if I'm ever given the chance.

I had forgotten Lucy's name, so thanks for that, Bob.

An Amazing Coming of Age Novel

A few years back I stumbled over and loved Poirier's excellent short story collection, Naked Pueblo, and I'm glad to report his debut novel displays the same strong writing and sympathetically quirky offbeat characters as his short stories. Like his short stories, the book is set primarily in Tucson, although there are chapters in Pennsylvania, and a few short visits to Washington, D.C. The story centers around Ellis, a 14-year-old who is leaving his odd domestic life with his mother in Tucson for a stuffy East Coast boarding/prep school. His upbringing has been somewhat haphazardly managed by Wendy-his hippie turned New Age mother whom he addresses by her first name, of course-and a quiet pothead relic of the early '70s called "Goat Man," who raises hybrid marijuana and goats while living for free in the pool house. His father...), lives out east and hasn't played much of a role in Ellis's life, so he's mostly relied on Goat Man as his male role model.