Book description
I was already hooked the moment the narrator's voice slid in, low and crisp, like a fresh cup of coffee in a quiet, sunlit kitchen. He pulls the story out of the future, from a world where every choice is a line in an algorithm and every decision is already made for you. The hum of machines, the faint scent of recycled plastic, the metallic clatter of a city that never sleeps - you can almost taste the chrome in the air.
The world is called QualityLand, the best country on Earth, and yet the best things feel the most hollow. Here, a universal ranking system clutches every citizen's life. Your job, your status, even your dreams are quantified. The narrator's cadence makes you feel the weight of those numbers pressing down on you, like a concrete slab over a soft, hidden heart. Then, there's the matchmaking service, a kind of invisible cupid that stitches lovers together and untangles them with the same ease. You can hear the soft click of a match made and the sigh of a breakup, almost like the gentle whir of a spinning wheel.
Then comes the most potent company in the world: TheShop. The narrator's voice softens, and you can hear the whisper of its predictive algorithms as they anticipate your desires before you even know them. Delivery drones buzz overhead, dropping packages like rain, each one already wrapped in a bubble of your future needs. The feeling is almost electric, a buzz under your skin that you can almost feel in the skin of your ears.
The story centers on Peter Jobless, a machine scrapper who is a ghost among the gears. He can't bring himself to destroy the imperfect machines that come his way; their whirring hearts echo his own indecision. The narrator's tone turns sympathetic as he describes Peter's quiet rebellion, his secret community of robotic misfits hidden beneath his apartment and in the factory's shadows. Peter receives a package from TheShop that he knows, with certainty, he does not want. The decision to return it feels like pulling a weight from his chest. The narrator's breath slows, and you can feel the pulse of that choice, a single heartbeat against a drum of algorithmic certainty.
And that is where the story shatters. Peter's act, small as it is, calls the flawless algorithm of TheShop into question, and with it, the very foundation of QualityLand. The narrator's voice swells with the stakes, the city's hum turning into a low, ominous hum that vibrates through your bones. It is a moment that feels both like a quiet whisper and a thunderclap, a reminder that even in a perfectly ranked world, a human heart can still refuse to be calculated.
What I love most about this audiobook is how the narrator paints the future with sensory detail - the metallic taste of cold chrome, the electric hum of drones, the feel of paper in your fingers as you flip through a ranking list. He turns the abstract into something tangible, something you can almost touch. It's a story about choice, about the weight of a single decision in a society that prefers certainty over uncertainty. If you crave a narrative that feels both distant and immediate, that makes you think about the value of your own choices, this is the listening experience for you.
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Sloth
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Playing a wide variety of audio formats
Works on all devices with iOS 13 and newer
Huge amount of features for a small price
Frequent updates to add new features and improve existing ones
Advanced playback controls
Live sound processing
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice and noise reduction
Translated into more than 20 languages
If you love listening to fiction audiobooks, ListenBook has features to make the process easier.
Edit book data: title, author, cover
Use equalizer to make the sound comfortable for you
Adjust the playback speed
Enjoy dark and light app themes
Supported formats: MP3, M4B, AWB, FLAC, OGG audio files and many more (must be DRM free)
Auto-Bookmarks make it easy to find your place
AirPlay support allows redirection of audio output.
VoiceOver support
Dark mode for night owls
Convenient bookmarking system helps you mark the most important places.
Unlimited bookmarks for each audiobook
Put your own cover on the wager
Share your audiobook with friends
Lock-screen control
Customise app with extensive options
Sleep timer with shake to reset, set custom notification sounds, and a few unique options
Auto rewind depending on paused time, customize rewind times to your liking
Removing background noise from recordings made in classrooms and meetings
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice for a better listening experience