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The Nix
- Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
- Length: 21 hrs and 41 mins
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Summary
Nathan Hill's brilliant debut, The Nix, journeys from the rural Midwest of the 1960s, to New York City during Occupy Wall Street; from Chicago in 1968, to wartime Norway: home of the mysterious Nix.
Meet Samuel: stalled writer, bored teacher at a local college, obsessive player of online video games. He hasn't seen his mother, Faye, in decades, not since she abandoned her family when he was a boy. Now she has suddenly reappeared, having committed an absurd politically motivated crime that electrifies the nightly news, beguiles the Internet, and inflames a divided America. The media paints Faye as a radical hippie with a sordid past, but as far as Samuel knows, his mother was an ordinary girl who married her high-school sweetheart. Which version of his mother is true? Two facts are certain: she's facing some serious charges, and she needs Samuel's help.
As Samuel begins to excavate his mother's, and his country's, history, he will unexpectedly find that he has to rethink everything he ever knew about her - a woman with an epic story of her own, a story she has kept hidden from the world.
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"The best new writer of fiction in America. The best." (John Irving)
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- shine
- 01-02-18
awesome
Where does The Nix rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
top 3
What was one of the most memorable moments of The Nix?
two many
What about Ari Fliakos’s performance did you like?
moved between characters with ease
If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
i'm not bright enough to think of one.There is so much,the story is so big.
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some writers just leave me in awe at their intelligence and their imagination.Wonderful story, absolutely thrilling, funny, sad, twists and turns, Just great.I liked it as much as I liked 'the Goldfinch by Donna Tartt.
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- Longshanks
- 23-09-17
Fabulous read!
An honest look at our daily deceptions of self avoidance of how we truly feel! Inspired writing and a journey worth traveling. We all have a story to tell and the opportunity to choose between inner truth and falsehood. Great characters and insight into mind traps. The little things are so important. Uplifting finish.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-10-18
Very Good - great detail
This has been in my library for ages ! I like end of world, Zombies so when I purchased this, it as always stayed towards bottom of the pile, however I needed a break from my norm and listened. I really enjoyed it, good story, thought provoking and well written, I like detail, longer the better and this did not disappoint.
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- Em Bennett
- 10-02-24
Great listen.
I don’t think I’d have stuck with this had I read it. But as a listen it was great. Really long but extremely well written with different characters highlighted in different sections. It’s a saga but not in the way of other “family sagas”. I recommend it and will miss it now it’s completed.
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- frank lynch
- 17-09-17
Great read.. loved it!!
I really enjoyed listening to this, its probably been my favourite audiobook so far..
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- Steven Raine
- 13-09-17
good book
really liked this book though ending slightly disappointing good characters great narrator interesting story line that kept me wanting to know more
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- MaMaMason
- 09-09-17
Very good, but could have been exceptional
Other reviewers have hit the nail on the head - the whole thing with Pwnage was irrelevant and tedious to listen to, I was so glad when he was out of the picture for a bit - I couldn't see what he contributed to the rest of the story, it was like padding. I'm going to read the book now in preference to the audible version, so I can skip out those boring bits, and concentrate on the rest of it. On the whole the narration was good, appropriate to the characters, but again, Pwnage got in the way of the story - so whiney and monotone it was hard to listen to.
Overall, this was thought provoking story (I was growing up around the same time as Faye) Parts of this book resonated with me so much I had to replay bits over and over then go away and think about it.
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- Paula
- 29-09-17
Slow start but I was finally hooked.
During the first chapters I wasn't convinced that I would listen to the end despite a brilliant narrator and great use of words to draw attention to small details. I cannot say when the characters became so interesting for me but now that the story is finished I feel bereft.
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- James sweeney
- 01-11-17
cannot wait for the tv show
narrator is on par with this amazing novel. really moving, funny and heart breaking. superb
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- Margaret
- 02-05-18
A great find
I don't often write reviews, or read novels of this length: my choices tend to be crime/police procedural/thrillers. I believe I must have bought this book as an Audible Deal of the Day on a whim, and several months after doing so, I am very happy with my purchase. This book is very cleverly constructed, it is funny, tragic, fascinating and intriguing in turn. All the characters are flawed but likeable in some way. It was surprising and satisfying and the best writing I have read in a long time. Despite the length I became hooked, partly because it was excellently narrated, and read it in a week.
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