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    Audiobook13 hours

    After the Plague

    Written by T. Coraghessan Boyle

    Narrated by Scott Brick

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Few authors in America write with such sheer love of story, language, and imagination as T.C. Boyle, and nowhere is that passion more evident than in his inventive, wickedly funny, and widely praised short stories. In After the Plague, Boyle speaks of contemporary social issues in a range of emotional keys. The sixteen stories gathered here address everything from air rage to abortion doctors to first love and its consequences. The collection ends with the brilliant title story, a whimsical and imaginative vision of a disease-ravaged Earth. Presented with characteristic wit and intelligence, these stories will delight readers in search of the latest news of the chaotic, disturbing, and achingly beautiful world in which we live.

    "Boyle's imagination and zeal for storytelling are in top form here."-Publishers Weekly

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateAug 27, 2003
    ISBN9781415911457
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    • 3/5
      I got tired of these stories. The theme is that society and human beings are terrible and it’s hammered away at relentlessly. Men are assholes and women are sex kittens, hopeless idiots or bitches. The hero of almost every story is an irritable jerk who’s self-righteously outraged at the foul behaviour of all the rest of humanity. It gets really boring and hateful after awhile. I thought the title story “After the Plague”, right at the end of the book, might be different, but no - irritable jerk, bitch and sex kitten in same old pattern.So offensive!
    • 5/5
      Excellent for a short story collection in that every selection was entertaining - not a dud in the lot.
    • 1/5
      The stories in After the plague never had any appeal to me, and I thoroughly loathed reading this collection of short stories.
    • 5/5
      Another stunning story collection by Boyle. He hasn't failed me yet... with even a single unenjoyable story in the first five collections. I must admit that this one is so far my least favorite of the five collections, as he focuses on modern humans with this collection rather than the environment. What makes this collection less enjoyable, is that in almost every story, the focus is on really really dark spirited humans. Or simply some of the darkest moments in mostly decent people. Not sunny reading. 'Termination Dust' is a perfect example, what you think is happening gets flipped on its head. (I also somehow remembered a name from this story that was also in 'Drop City' that I read years ago... not sure if its the same character but the scenario also seemed to be one from the book. Possibly the story inspired the novel. But the story is perfect as is. Drop City is fantastic too.) The most positive story might be 'The Underground Gardens' which I'm just now learning was based on a real person who dug tunnels and a house underground. What was going on with Mr. Boyle while writing these? As usual, the writing on a sentence level, couldn't be better. I like all of these stories equally, but if I had to pick two favorites: 'Going Down' and 'Termination Dust'. 'Going Down' has fantastic bits of a sci-fi book the character is reading, which makes me wonder why Boyle doesn't like genre? There definitely isn't a bad story in the bunch. Just many many bad events. This is my least favorite of his five short story collections so far, but it's still a solid book.
    • 4/5
      Wow. This is dark! I'm really enjoying this story collection.