Disaster-prone Jim Dixon, lecturer in medieval history (which he hates) at a red-brick English university (ditto), is under the thrall of Professor Welch, department head, enthusiast of medieval “music” and a bore of the deepest dye. Nearly 70 years after publication, it now appears as an audiobook (Blackstone, 9⅔ hours). (Simon & Schuster Audio, 8 hours, $17)‘Lucky Jim,’ by Kingsley AmisReturn to menuKingsley Amis’s 1954 book is, despite its unreconstructed attitude toward women, one of the funniest novels ever written. Also in play are buried treasure, a pair of ex-cons, a presidential candidate and, of course, a python. This entails employing a bibulous ex-newspaperman kitted out as the “Everglades Melon Monster,” which naturally becomes a TikTok sensation. While the two men get on with drinking, drugging and dreaming of success, Ken Bortle of Bortle Brothers Bait and Beer is hatching a scheme to lure tourists to the brothers’ justly unfrequented store. Jess Braddock is frustrated living in the Everglades with her baby, ex-boyfriend - an aspiring reality star whose idea of acting is whipping off his shirt - and his lecherous friend. (Penguin Audio, 8½ hours, $31.50)‘Swamp Story,’ by Dave BarryReturn to menuDave Barry narrates his latest novel in a calm, seemingly serious voice, never mind the endearing silliness of what he’s reading. She distinguishes between characters marvelously, shading her voice to project their personalities and emotional state so effectively that we feel we know them - though, naturally, they would not deign to know us. It’s absurdly satisfying, not least because of narrator Marin Ireland’s fine performance. The story moves along a familiar path, one dotted with pitfalls, recoveries, rich-person satire and eventual harmony. Cord’s sisters call her “the gold digger,” though, happily, they have their own problems. Middle-class Sasha has married old-money Cord Stockton of Brooklyn Heights, and it’s rough. It is a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller.Jenny Jackson’s debut is the story of immensely rich people saddled with wealth’s daunting problems: prenups, trust funds and tennis strokes among them. Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand's masterpiece. Tremendous in its scope, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human life-from the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboy to the great steel industrialist who does not know that he is working for his own destruction to the philosopher who becomes a pirate to the composer who gives up his career on the night of his triumph to the woman who runs a transcontinental railroad to the lowest track worker in her Terminal tunnels. Was he a destroyer or the greatest of liberators? Why did he have to fight his battle, not against his enemies but against those who needed him most-and his hardest battle against the woman he loved? What is the world's motor-and the motive power of every man? It is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world-and did. The incomparable novel about the men of the mind on strike against the creed of self-sacrifice.Īyn Rand's epochal novel, first published in 1957, has been a continual bestseller as well as an intellectual landmark.
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