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Dr. No
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Amir Abdullah
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
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Summary
A sly, madcap novel about supervillains and nothing, really, from an American novelist whose star keeps rising
The protagonist of Percival Everett's puckish new novel is a brilliant professor of mathematics who goes by Wala Kitu. (Wala, he explains, means "nothing" in Tagalog, and Kitu is Swahili for "nothing.") He is an expert on nothing. That is to say, he is an expert, and his area of study is nothing, and he does nothing about it. This makes him the perfect partner for the aspiring villain John Sill, who wants to break into Fort Knox to steal, well, not gold bars but a shoebox containing nothing. Once he controls nothing he'll proceed with a dastardly plan to turn a Massachusetts town into nothing. Or so he thinks.
With the help of the brainy and brainwashed astrophysicist-turned-henchwoman Eigen Vector, our professor tries to foil the villain while remaining in his employ. In the process, Wala Kitu learns that Sill's desire to become a literal Bond villain originated in some real all-American villainy related to the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. As Sill says, "Professor, think of it this way. This country has never given anything to us and it never will. We have given everything to it. I think it's time we gave nothing back."
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-10-24
The narrator
The narrator was amazing!! Really good. It made the whole listen enjoyable and easy to listen to the story.
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- Ricci
- 21-10-24
If A Book Is Free On Audible How Much Does It Cost
What do you get by deconstructing a Bond villain? What if you take a school-boy joke - “‘what are studying, professor?’ ‘Nothing’” - and construct it into a novel? You find that the same one-dimensional chess-piece characters work well in both cases, and the two can be combined. I walked, wide-eyed and wondering, into this novel and found it a pacy, colourful delight. Sometimes I was dogged by the thought that the whole thing was a huge puzzle which I was not only failing to solve, but failing even to get wrong. Having read the Trees, and James by Percival Everett I am a huge fan - so I was only really looking for another of his titles when I found this one. It’s a comedy, more-so than the Trees. It has a black-lives message, but quite a bit less so than those other titles. It turned out, on Audible, that this book was free. I don’t know if it’s still free but I’m recommending it either way.
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- Anonymous User
- 11-04-23
Hilarious genius!
Seriously funny stuff. I am tempted to go straight back to the start and listen again.
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- C Graham
- 03-10-24
Absolute dross
Just nonsense. You have to question how this book was ever published. It really is nonsense from start to finish
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