What's everybody reading or listening to (audiobook)... 📚️
Hi everyone!
Just wondering if there are any keen readers here that wanted to use this post to share their suggestions (similar to the one we have for "what's everyone watching").
I've recently decided I need to try to expand my mind a bit more, so I've started a bit more reading/listening to audiobooks. I'm currently listening to George Orwell's 1984 which has me hooked!
I'd love some suggestions if anybody has any?!
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1984…. ok)
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Omon Ra Kindle Edition
by Victor Pelevin (Author), Andrew Bromfield (Translator) Format: Kindle Edition
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"An inventive comedy as black as outer space itself. Makes The Right Stuff looks like a NASA handout."—Tibor Fischer.Victor Pelevin's novel Omon Ra has been widely praised for its poetry and its wickedness, a novel in line with the great works of Gogol and Bulgakov: "full of the ridiculous and the sublime," says The Observer [London]. Omon is chosen to be trained in the Soviet space program the fulfillment of his lifelong dream. However, he enrolls only to encounter the terrifying absurdity of Soviet protocol and its backward technology: a bicycle-powered moonwalker; the outrageous Colonel Urgachin ("a kind of Sovier Dr. Strangelove"—The New York Times); and a one-way assignment to the moon. The New Yorker proclaimed: "Omon's adventure is like a rocket firing off its various stages—each incident is more jolting and propulsively absurd than the one before."
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Thanks @egister that sounds really cool - appreciate you sharing it. 😆 It's next on my list once I've finished 1984!
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