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Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/383808 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/383808] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gulliver's Travels Author: Jonathan Swift Narrator: Arthur Darvill, Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 49 minutes Release date: October 3, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody Publisher's Summary: Jonathan Swift's classic satire, in a brand new dramatisation starring Arthur Darvill (Rory from BBC Television's Doctor Who) Gulliver is shipwrecked on the Island of Lilliput where the natives are tiny people living in a miniature society. With his unique overview of this realm, Gulliver discovers a world of petty politics and small minds. Coerced into a war between two nations who disagree on the best way to eat boiled eggs, Gulliver finds himself betrayed by friends and battered by enemies - escape is his only option if he wants to survive! Gulliver's adventures in Lilliput are hilarious, disturbing and profound. This is a story of dishonest politicians, mindless ceremony and wars based on unconvincing arguments. A satire as potent now as it ever was!

What a Carve Up!: ‘Everything a novel ought to be: courageous, challenging, funny, sad’ The Times by Jonathan Coe

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/370694 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/370694] to listen full audiobooks. Title: What a Carve Up!: ‘Everything a novel ought to be: courageous, challenging, funny, sad’ The Times Author: Jonathan Coe Narrator: Richard Goulding Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 41 minutes Release date: April 25, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the audiobook edition of What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe, read by Richard Goulding. It is the 1980s and the Winshaw family are getting richer and crueller by the year: Newspaper-columnist Hilary gets thousands for telling it like it isn't; Henry's turning hospitals into car parks; Roddy's selling art in return for sex; down on the farm Dorothy's squeezing every last pound from her livestock; Thomas is making a killing on the stock exchange; and Mark is selling arms to dictators. But once their hapless biographer Michael Owen starts investigating the family's trail of greed, corruption and immoral doings, the time growing ripe for the Winshaws to receive their comeuppance. . . This wickedly funny take on life under the Thatcher government was the winner of the 1995 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 'A sustained feat of humour, suspense and polemic, full of twists and ironies' Hilary Mantel, Sunday Times 'A riveting social satire on the chattering and all-powerful upper classes' Time Out 'Big, hilarious, intricate, furious, moving' Guardian Jonathan Coe's novels are filled with biting social commentary, moving and astute observations of life and hilarious set pieces that have made him one of the most popular writers of his generation. His other titles, The Accidental Woman, A Touch of Love, The Rotters' Club (winner of the Everyman Wodehouse prize), The Closed Circle, The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim, The House of Sleep (winner of the1998 Prix Médicis Étranger), and The Rain Before it Falls, are all available in Penguin paperback.

Bennington Girls Are Easy: A Novel by Charlotte Silver

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/236245 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/236245] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bennington Girls Are Easy: A Novel Author: Charlotte Silver Narrator: Rachel Fulginiti Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 49 minutes Release date: July 14, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody Publisher's Summary: Chosen as one of 'Summer's Best Books' by PEOPLE MAGAZINE: 'Suprisingly insightful and seriously fun.' One of O MAGAZINE's 'Season's Best' A COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE 'July Reads' Pick    Named one of REFINERY 29's “21 New Authors to Watch” in 2015 Charlotte Silver dazzles with a ruefully funny coming-of-age novel that follows two recent Bennington grads who are determined to make it in the Big Apple.        Bennington College, founded in 1932 as a suitable refuge for the wayward daughters of good families, maintains its saucy reputation for attracting free spirits. There, acres outnumber students, the faculty is composed of fading hippie and clothing is largely optional. Or, as J. D. Salinger put it in Franny and Zooey: a Bennington-type 'looked like she'd spent the whole train ride in the john, sculpting or painting or something, or as though she had a leotard on under her dress.'      Cassandra Puffin and Sylvie Furst met in high school but cement what they ardently believe will be everlasting friendship on Bennington's idyllic Vermont campus. Graduation sees Sylvie moving to New York City, where, later on their twenties, Cassandra joins her. These early, delirious years are spent decorating their Fort Greene apartment with flea market gems, dating 'artists', and trying to figure out what they're doing with their lives.      The girls are acutely and caustically observant of the unique rhythms of the city but tone deaf to their own imperfections, which eventually drives a wedge between them. Equal parts heartfelt and hilarious, Bennington Girls Are Easy is a novel about female friendships—how with one word from a confidante can lift you up or tear you down—and how difficult it is to balance someone else's devastatingly funny lapses in judgment with your own professional and personal missteps.

Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/236252 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/236252] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Modern Romance Author: Aziz Ansari Narrator: Aziz Ansari Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 15 minutes Release date: June 16, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.9 of Total 29 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 6 Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the unabridged, audio download edition of Modern Romance, written and read by Aziz Ansari. People today have more romantic options than at any point in human history, and thanks to social media, smartphones and online dating, our abilities to connect with these options are staggering. Yet we also have to face new and absurd dilemmas, such as what to think when someone doesn't reply to your text but has time to post a photo of a pizza on Instagram. But this transformation of our romantic lives cannot be explained by technology alone. Whereas once most people would find a decent person who probably lived in their neighbourhood and marry by the age of 23, today we spend years of our lives on a quest to find our soulmate. While Ansari has long aimed his comedic insight at modern relationships, here he teamed up with award-winning sociologist Eric Klinenberg to research dating cultures from Tokyo to Buenos Aires to Paris, crunch the quantitative data and interview some of the world's leading social scientists. The result is an unforgettable tour of the romantic landscape.

Modern Romance by Eric Klinenberg, Aziz Ansari

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/233924 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/233924] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Modern Romance Author: Eric Klinenberg, Aziz Ansari Narrator: Aziz Ansari Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 14 minutes Release date: June 16, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.18 of Total 397 Ratings of Narrator: 4.59 of Total 74 Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody Publisher's Summary: The #1 New York Times Bestseller “An engaging look at the often head-scratching, frequently infuriating mating behaviors that shape our love lives.” —Refinery 29 A hilarious, thoughtful, and in-depth exploration of the pleasures and perils of modern romance from Aziz Ansari, the star of Master of None and one of this generation’s sharpest comedic voices At some point, every one of us embarks on a journey to find love. We meet people, date, get into and out of relationships, all with the hope of finding someone with whom we share a deep connection. This seems standard now, but it’s wildly different from what people did even just decades ago. Single people today have more romantic options than at any point in human history. With technology, our abilities to connect with and sort through these options are staggering. So why are so many people frustrated? Some of our problems are unique to our time. “Why did this guy just text me an emoji of a pizza?” “Should I go out with this girl even though she listed Combos as one of her favorite snack foods? Combos?!” “My girlfriend just got a message from some dude named Nathan. Who’s Nathan? Did he just send her a photo of his penis? Should I check just to be sure?”  But the transformation of our romantic lives can’t be explained by technology alone. In a short period of time, the whole culture of finding love has changed dramatically. A few decades ago, people would find a decent person who lived in their neighborhood. Their families would meet and, after deciding neither party seemed like a murderer, they would get married and soon have a kid, all by the time they were twenty-four. Today, people marry later than ever and spend years of their lives on a quest to find the perfect person, a soul mate. For years, Aziz Ansari has been aiming his comic insight at modern romance, but for Modern Romance, the book, he decided he needed to take things to another level. He teamed up with NYU sociologist Eric Klinenberg and designed a massive research project, including hundreds of interviews and focus groups conducted everywhere from Tokyo to Buenos Aires to Wichita. They analyzed behavioral data and surveys and created their own online research forum on Reddit, which drew thousands of messages. They enlisted the world’s leading social scientists, including Andrew Cherlin, Eli Finkel, Helen Fisher, Sheena Iyengar, Barry Schwartz, Sherry Turkle, and Robb Willer. The result is unlike any social science or humor book we’ve seen before. In Modern Romance, Ansari combines his irreverent humor with cutting-edge social science to give us an unforgettable tour of our new romantic world.