Invisible Monsters
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Invisible Monsters

Invisible Monsters doesn’t ease you into its world. It drops you mid-collapse, then keeps rearranging the pieces just as you start to get your footing. The result is a deliberately disjointed listening experience, one that mirrors the book’s obsession with […]

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Lamb The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
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Lamb

I admit it: I completely spaced and forgot to post my review of this one back when I listened to it in September last year. To make things stranger, I didn’t even get it through Audible like most of my

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Fight club
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Fight Club

This was my first time reading Chuck Palahniuk, even though a few of his books have been sitting on my wish list forever. Fight Club felt like a natural starting point, especially since I’ve seen the film a few times

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Discordia
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Discordia

Max Barry’s Discordia is a satirical and rather fast-paced audiobook novella that blends dark humour, social commentary, and science fiction into a whirlwind of absurdity. Barry delivers a story that is both ridiculous and alarmingly relevant. With a resurgence of

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Year Zero꞉ A Novel
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Year Zero

I took a chance on this one after it popped up in a two-for-one sale. I’ve thought about giving this one a go, almost from when it came out as an ebook but never made the plunge. The premise of

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[2] Son of a Liche꞉ The Dark Profit Saga, Book
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Son of a Liche

It had been some time since I’d listened to the first book in this series (Orconomics), and after listening to the first five minutes of this book, I stopped and went back and re-listened to all of book one because

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[1] Orconomics꞉ A Satire꞉ The Dark Profit Saga, Book
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Orconomics

Orconomics: A Satire, written by J. Zachary Pike, lives up to its title! A humorous satire of orc, dwarves, elves and other fantasy folks in a world where the world of heroes and monsters is being run into the ground

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QualityLand
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QualityLand

QualityLand, by Marc-Uwe Kling. Where you can only talk in superlatives – hence the subject line for this review! Where machines don’t make mistakes. A world where who you are is governed by algorithms who know you better than you

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Nuns with Guns
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Nuns with Guns

This is the second audiobook I’ve read by Seth Kaufman and enjoyed this possibly even more than the first. It had been sitting in my “to read” list in my library since I picked up a promo code for it

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The King of Pain꞉ A Novel with Stories
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The King of Pain

I grabbed a copy of The King of Pain by Seth Kaufman and narrated by George Kuch, mostly because of the blurb and call-outs on the cover which promised me it was “riotously funny”. Perhaps it wasn’t to my sense

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