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Galapagos
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
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Summary
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.
Critic reviews
"Vonnegut is a post-modern Mark Train....Galapagos is a madcap genealogical adventure." ( The New York Times Book Review)
"The best Vonnegut novel yet!" (John Irving)
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- Stuart
- 14-02-12
Brilliant
Not as well known as his others, but this is a fantastic Vonnegut audiobook. Had me chuckling away and pondering the meaning of it all...
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- Loraine
- 20-01-10
Brilliant
Really enjoyed this- the humour, the gloomy view of people, the ideas.
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- Saima Baig
- 29-06-22
Interesting
As always Vonnegut makes you think. I found this book enjoyable and the narrator was very good too.
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- Mark Purnell
- 02-11-20
Distinctly Average
Unique style, but not inherently gripping. Somewhat hard to follow and convoluted with the time-skips and numerous characters. Decent enough story and well enough told though.
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- Asil Hindi
- 16-05-21
A bit of dark comedy, satire and mokery
" Our brains are so terrifically oversized, we have to keep inventing things to want, to buy" ... "Our brains are much too large.. We are much too busy. Our brains have proved to be terribly destructive"
Leon Trout's ghost t, a Vietnam war veteran who died on during the construction of Bahia de Darwin, narrates the story of a group of 10 mismatched humans on the fictional island of Santa Rosalia in the Galapagos Islands. Trout declined to go through the blue tunnel to entre the afterlife when he died as he was curious about the human condition and his ghost got stuck on the ship for million years.
According to Trout, the real villain of the story is the human brain, its the cause of suffering and hardship. It's oversized and acts as a detriment instead of surviving in nature.
Trout narrates how in a million years in the future, human beings have evolved into swimming mammals, covered in fur with small brains and flippers instead of hands.
The story highlights the downfall of the human race as a result of their big brains and selfish characteristics.
A bit of dark comedy, satire and mokery of humanity.
3.5 🌟 in total
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- Anonymous User
- 07-04-13
Good concept
I remembered seeing this book for sale in print many years ago and was particularly intrigued the cover. However, the concept, whilst still intrigueing just wasn't strong enough to sustain an entire novel, it felt like a short story stretched and stretched out. On the plus side, the narrator was good and the characters were plausible.
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- Very good
- 14-11-22
I loved everything about this book. Everything!
I think this has to be my all time favourite book. And it's absolutely wonderfully narrated!
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- Nicky Ramone
- 20-11-21
I enjoyed it very much
I haven’r read or listened to a Kurt Vonnegut Jr. book for 15 or 20 years. After listening to this one, which I hadn’t read before, I’ll listen to some more… though some of them need to be read since they have relevant drawings. I loved the simple device of our supposed evolutionary advantage turning out to be our downfall. I can’t imagine there’s anyone who would not enjoy this.
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- Ladyfilosopher
- 09-10-21
i wish i could unlisten this book
the material MUST have had a different impact at the time. In any case, the biased interpretations of the then science of human behaviour are stale and disfunctional both sociologically and as extrapolated by Vonnegut in his grasping to deal with the horrors of violence. He got off the research bus at the wrong stop. We human can do better, we just have to step away from androcratic socialisation. Other books from Vonnegut stand the test of time. This one doesn't.
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- D. A
- 05-07-21
Surprisingly flat
I struggled to finish this book. The premise is so interesting and it has a good enough start but at points I felt it was just rambling and nothing concrete was being said. About halfway in, I increased the speed of narration 3X so I could finish it sooner. Unless you’re a fan of Vonnegut, I wouldn’t recommend this book.
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