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Narrated by:
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Jonathan Davis
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Written by:
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Kurt Vonnegut
About this listen
Galapagos takes the listener back one million years to AD 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary journey. Thanks to an apocalypse, a small group of survivors stranded on the Galapagos Islands are about to become the progenitors of a brave, new, totally different human race.
Kurt Vonnegut, America's master satirist, looks at our world and shows us all that is sadly, madly awry - and all that is worth saving.
As an added bonus, when you purchase our Audible Modern Vanguard production of Kurt Vonnegut's book, you'll also receive an exclusive Jim Atlas interview. This interview – where James Atlas interviews Gay Talese about the life and work of Kurt Vonnegut – begins as soon as the audiobook ends.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book and recording
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 166
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 136
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Story4 out of 5 stars 137
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1 out of 5 stars
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Hocus Pocus
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 37
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Story4 out of 5 stars 33
Eugene Debs Hartke describes an odyssey from college professor to prison inmate to prison warden back again to prisoner in another of Vonnegut's bitter satirical explorations of how and where (and why) the American dream begins to die. Employing his characteristic narrative device - a retrospective diary in which the protagonist retraces his life at its end, a desperate and disconnected series of events here in Hocus Pocus show Vonnegut with his mask off and his rhetorical devices unshielded.
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1 out of 5 stars
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I found the racism to be challenging
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 17
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 14
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Meet Rabo Karabekian, a moderately successful surrealist painter who we meet late in life and see struggling (like all of Vonnegut's key characters) with the dregs of unresolved pain and the consequences of brutality. Loosely based on the legend of Bluebeard (best realized in Bela Bartok's one-act opera), the novel follows Karabekian through the last events in his life that is heavy with women, painting, artistic ambition, artistic fraudulence, and as of yet unknown consequence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 111
The richest, most depraved man on Earth, Malachi Constant, is offered a chance to take a space journey to distant worlds with a beautiful woman at his side. Of course, there's a catch to the invitation....
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 576
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 509
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 509
Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness. He is surrounded by Vonnegut's usual large cast of continuing characters (notably here the hack science fiction writer Kilgore Trout and the alien Tralfamadorians, who oversee his life and remind him constantly that there is no causation, no order, no motive to existence).
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2 out of 5 stars
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- By S.S. on 2022-02-17
Written by: Kurt Vonnegut
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Cat's Cradle
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- Narrated by: Tony Roberts
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 58
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Story4 out of 5 stars 49
Cat's Cradle is Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a little person as the protagonist; a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer; and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book and recording
- By Emergentmind on 2019-05-18
Written by: Kurt Vonnegut
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Breakfast of Champions
- Written by: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: John Malkovich
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 166
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 136
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Story4 out of 5 stars 137
Breakfast of Champions (1973) provides frantic, scattershot satire and a collage of Vonnegut's obsessions. His recurring cast of characters and American landscape was perhaps the most controversial of his canon; it was felt by many at the time to be a disappointing successor to Slaughterhouse-Five, which had made Vonnegut's literary reputation.
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1 out of 5 stars
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NOT for me
- By C. J. Mccoy on 2018-04-09
Written by: Kurt Vonnegut
-
Hocus Pocus
- Written by: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 37
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 33
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 33
Eugene Debs Hartke describes an odyssey from college professor to prison inmate to prison warden back again to prisoner in another of Vonnegut's bitter satirical explorations of how and where (and why) the American dream begins to die. Employing his characteristic narrative device - a retrospective diary in which the protagonist retraces his life at its end, a desperate and disconnected series of events here in Hocus Pocus show Vonnegut with his mask off and his rhetorical devices unshielded.
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1 out of 5 stars
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I found the racism to be challenging
- By Bill Westwell on 2018-09-11
Written by: Kurt Vonnegut
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Bluebeard
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- Written by: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 17
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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5 out of 5 stars
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meh.
- By Justin S. on 2019-10-01
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance3 out of 5 stars
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- Norman
- 2022-10-23
The event that saved the human race
Sometimes I think Kurt Vonnegut is writing the books of Kilgore Trout. This is one of those times. I have so many questions that are left unanswered.
What actually happened to the rest of the human race?
Then I realize that, from the narrator’s viewpoint, 1,000,000 years hence, none of that matters anymore.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Curtis Y.
- 2019-12-10
My big brain loved it.
Only my second time ‘reading’ Vonnegut but, like slaughter house five, it did not disappoint. Not only do I love his style, I also loved the subject matter. As a high school biology teacher, there was plenty to enjoy in the Galapagos. There wasn’t a character I didn’t enjoy learning about!
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- Greg at 2 Book Lovers Reviews
- 2019-02-16
Incredible!
*7 Stars!
I think that everyone’s reading is influenced early on by the people in our lives. Parents, teachers, friends, they all tend to point us in certain directions for our reading. My influencing factors pointed me in directions other than Vonnegut. But I’ve heard his name come up frequently over the past few years, so it seemed to be about time to give him a shot. I’ve certainly been missing something special.
Based on my usual criteria, if I even have usual criteria, Galapagos should have been a 3-star rating. There was very little action or character development, and no real climax, but there was something exceptionally special about how the story was told. The best way I can describe my experience is comparing it to putting a puzzle together; you know what the picture is, it’s right there in front of you, but the fun or the challenge is figuring out how all of the pieces fit together.
Vonnegut’s big brain has explored the big picture of change and adaptation. I loved the way he highlighted how insignificant many of humanity’s “accomplishments” really are: in a million years no one will know or care about the 45th President of the United States, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony or Kurt Vonnegut, for that matter. We are just tiny specks on the massive timeline. Life will continue in one way or another and our mistakes and inaction can be just as significant as our “accomplishments.”
I “read” the audiobook of Galapagos and found Jonathan Davis’ narration to be a perfect match for the story. He kept me captivated with his matter-of-fact tone and sarcastic inflection. Davis became Leon Trout.
While post-apocalyptic in scope, it is not your typical post-apocalyptic story in nature…then again, I don’t think that there is anything typical about Kurt Vonnegut.
I love it when I find an author like this!
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- GB
- 2019-02-13
Nicely narrated. Thats about all I can say.
The story takes place in1960’s written by some one amillion years in the future. Definately not a travel log,
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- Amazon Customer
- 2022-09-11
Vonnegut, captivating as he always was.
Vonnegut, captivating as he always was. His works always have me reflecting and never cease to influence my viewpoint, and have me thinking of things in another light.
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