Book description
March 15th, 2024
Dear Reader,
I just finished listening to The World Jones Made and felt compelled to write you immediately-there's something haunting about this audiobook that lingers long after the final word.
Philip K. Dick has this unsettling way of holding up a mirror to our deepest anxieties, and here he does it through Floyd Jones, a man cursed with the ability to see tomorrow. The narrator's voice captures Jones' reluctant prophecy perfectly-you can hear the weight of unwanted visions in every strained syllable.
What struck me most was how Dick weaves the mundane with the extraordinary. Jones starts at a mutant carnival, of all places, which the audiobook brings to vivid life through atmospheric sound design. You're there, hearing the crowd's murmurs and the distant hum of carnival machinery. But beneath this gritty surface lies something profound: in a world where dreaming is outlawed, Jones becomes a vessel for humanity's desperate need to believe in something beyond their bleak reality.
The audiobook format really amplifies the paranoia that runs through Dick's work. There's an intimacy to hearing these thoughts voiced aloud, especially when characters are questioning what's real and what's been predetermined. The narrator doesn't overact the madness-instead, there's a quiet desperation that makes Jones feel genuinely tragic rather than simply insane.
Dick's exploration of postnuclear society feels uncomfortably prescient. Through the audiobook's immersive quality, you experience the claustrophobia of a world where hope itself has been criminalized. Yet Jones, despite being society's outcast, becomes its only source of genuine inspiration.
This isn't Dick at his most polished-his later works would refine these themes with greater complexity-but there's something raw and urgent here that the audio format captures beautifully. It's like listening to prophecy being born.
Yours in literary discovery,
A Fellow Reader
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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