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Zeitgeist (Unabridged) [Audio Download]

by Bruce Sterling (Author), Jeff Woodman (Narrator)
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  • Listening Length: 10 hours and 30 minutes
  • Program Type: Audiobook
  • Version: Unabridged
  • Publisher: Random House Audible
  • Audible Release Date: 31 Oct 2000
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B0046ZWHMO
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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It's 1999, and on the Turkish half of Cyprus, the ever-enterprising Leggy Starlitz has alighted - pausing on his mission to storm the Third World with the G-7 girls, the cheapest, phoniest all-girl band ever to wear Wonderbras and spandex. His market is staring him in the face: millions of teenagers trapped in a world of mullahs and mosques, all ready to blow their pocket change on G-7's massive merchandising campaign - and to wildly anticipate music the band will never release.

Leggy's brilliant plan means doing business with some of the world's most dangerous people. Among these thieves, schemers, and killers, he must act quickly and decisively. Y2K is just around the corner - and the only rule to live by is that the whole scheme stops before the year 2000. But Leggy's G-7 Zeitgeist is in serious jeopardy, for in Istanbul, his former partners are getting restless - and the G-7 girls are beginning to die...

Executive Producer: Laura Wilson
Producer: Lisa Cahn
Original Jacket design: Eric Dinyer
Author Photo ©: Martha Grenon
©2000 Bruce Sterling
(P)2000 Random House, Inc.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
OK, but not great 24 Oct 2001
By A Customer
Format:Hardcover
I bought this at the airport, expecting great things - having thoroughly enjoyed Sterling's earlier work. This novel, however, is a bit frothy, little depth to the characters and not enough action in the plot to overcome that flaw. Whilst it was fine as a holiday read on the beach it does not live up to to the standard of his earlier work.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Amazing 22 Oct 2001
By A Customer
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This is my favorite Bruce Sterling book so far. The story is amazing. Through the main characters, Sterling adresses political conflicts and social conflicts through naritive structure and collective unconcious. The main character, Leggy Starlitz, always refers to "the naritive" and talks about surrviving change of millenium. The books starts off with a silly scam to make money selling clothing with the help of a girl group like the spice girls, but it expands to talk about the effect of mass media on the phyche of the world, and univerally held ideas' affect on individuals. Brilliant.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By DA WILL
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Last seen attempting to set up an online money-laundering operation (while at the same time securing a lucrative merchandising deal for the Japanese market) on an obscure set of Finnish islands, Leggy Starlitz is back. This time the scam is using a talentless girl-band touring the developing world to sell cheap clothes, lunch boxes, etc.
Sterling again shows an incredible depth of knowledge about people, politics and places which rarely enter most peoples consciousness. All of this through the eyes of the anti-heroic Leggy Starlitz who thrives in interstitial areas where civilisation has either broken down or never properly started. Leggy is a character of equal charm and humour to Oscar Valparaiso from Sterling's "Distraction" and his adventures again produce more thought-provoking ideas per page than you would think possible.
Tremendous book - buy it!
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