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    Audiobook12 hours

    Woke Up Lonely

    Written by Fiona Maazel

    Narrated by Bernadette Dunne

    2.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Thurlow Dan is the founder of the Helix, a cult that promises to cure loneliness. With its communes and speed-dating, mixers and confession sessions, the Helix has become a national phenomenon - and attracted the attention of governments worldwide. But Thurlow, camped out in his Cincinnati headquarters, is lonely - for his ex-wife, Esme, and their daughter, whom he hasn't seen in ten years. Esme, for her part, is a covert agent who has spent her life spying on Thurlow, mostly to protect him from the law. Now, with her superiors demanding results, she recruits four misfits to botch a reconnaissance mission in Cincinnati. But when Thurlow takes them hostage, he ignites a siege of the Helix House that will change all their lives forever.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateApr 2, 2013
    ISBN9781624064869
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    Woke Up Lonely
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    Fiona Maazel

    Fiona Maazel is the author of Last Last Chance, and Woke Up Lonely. She won the Bard Prize for Fiction, and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Salon, and elsewhere. She teaches at Brooklyn College, New York University, Columbia, and Princeton, and was appointed the Picador Guest Professor at the University of Leipzig, Germany, for the spring of 2012. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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    • 1/5
      I listened to this on audio and really hated it. Forced myself to listen to the end. Didn't like any of the characters and found the story disjointed, convoluted, and hard to follow.
    • 1/5
      Read from January 20 to February 10, 2014What is the point of this book? I've met many characters...I know there's some kind of relationship...but what am I even reading (CIA agent has a relationship with someone she shouldn't? She's recruiting people? He's recruiting people to a cult? Wtf?) and WHY? So after reading around 28%, I'm don't wasting my time.Well, I started reading it because of the Tournament of Books and I'm abandoning because I just don't care about this book. I'll be crushed if this knocks out Atkinson's LIFE AFTER LIFE in the pre-tournament round (and I will harshly judge the person that makes that decision).
    • 2/5
      This one's got a good premise: a cult born out of the crushing loneliness that seems endemic to modern American life threatens to disrupt society. Unfortunately, it goes off the rails almost immediately, taking the reader on a wild ride that involves unsightly, elaborate disguises; tortured, unworkable family dynamics; CIA codebreaking; an ill-advised trip to North Korea; and the seedy underbelly of -- of all places -- Cincinnati, Ohio. Not all that much about how the cult in question -- the Helix -- salves its members loneliness is included here, which would seem to be a rather glaring omission, nor does the author venture too many theories about why Americans have come to feel so terribly alone. Even so, something kept me reading long enough to finish this one, and I think it was the books' characters. By this I mean mostly its bit players -- I found its central protagonists, Esme and Thurlow, to be pretty unbearable. But the lonely souls they come across in their adventures are worth spending some time with, interesting portraits of American lives that somehow turned out wrong. Sometimes "Woke Up Lonely" seems like a mediocre novel that has a good short story collection hiding in it somewhere, and it was worth sticking around for those bits.Not that it's enough for me to recommend it, though.