John Crowley has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 3 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4★ across 2 ratings. The most-rated is Aegypt.
Aegypt
Summary
Is there more than one history of the world? This is the question Pierce Moffett is seeking to answer when, jilted and newly jobless, he gets off a bus by chance in the Faraway Hills and steps unawares into a story that has been awaiting him there. His search will bring him into contact with Rosie Rasmussen, another seeker marked by loss. And it will lead them both on a path toward the longed-for country of our oldest dreams and most unanswerable desires, toward a magnificent discovery.
©1987 John Crowley (P)2007 Blackstone Audio Inc.
Little, Big
Summary
Edgewood - which is not found on any map - is many houses, all put inside each other or across each other. It’s filled with and surrounded by mystery and enchantment; the further in you go, the bigger it gets. Smoky Barnable, who has fallen in love with Daily Alice Drinkwater, travels from the City on foot to Edgewood, her family home. There he finds himself on the magical border of an otherworld. Crowley’s work has a special alchemy - mixing the world we know with an imagined world that seems more true and real. Winner of the World Fantasy Award, Little, Big is elegant, sensual, funny, and unforgettable. It is a story of fantastic love and heartrending loss, of impossible things and unshakable destinies, and of the great Tale that envelops us all. It is a wonder. John Crowley is an American writer who has also worked in television and documentary films. His fantasy and science fiction have established him as a major voice in imaginative writing. His other novels include The Deep, Engine Summer, and Ægypt.
©1981 2010 by John Crowley; Edition 2010 by Ron Drummond (P)2011 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Knuckle Dragging Sales
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According to the US Bureau of Labor statistics, 11 percent of Americans are in sales. Yet ask a room full of children, "Who wants to be a salesperson when you grow up?" and you'll get nothing but blank stares. Why does no one aspire to be a salesperson, yet so many end up in sales? Money! Sales is one of the few professions where you are the income driver. Want more freedom? Security? Impact on the world? Make more money, and you can have it all, right? The legend of a "seven-figure commission club" has lured many into sales. Most realize quickly it's not as easy as it sounds! As John Crowley started on his quest to join this elusive group, he voraciously consumed sales books, podcasts, and more. But when he implemented their suggested hacks, tips, and tricks, his commission decreased. Why? With every new sales technique, he moved further away from the basics. The "experts" of the sales world muddied the waters and made us believe there's a magic bullet to make selling easy. Magic bullets don't exist in sales. Through trial and error and a lot of knuckle dragging, John figured out what worked and what didn't. None of it was "easy"or "magic", but it was simple. You persist and win - or you quit and fail. You hunt and gather - or you starve and die. Even a caveman could understand that. Welcome to the de-evolution revolution of sales!
©2018 John Crowley (P)2018 John Crowley
Reading Backwards
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Reading Backwards opens with the autobiographical "My Life in the Theater," a memoir of the younger Crowley's earliest ambitions, and closes with the moving and memorable "Practicing the Arts of Peace." In between, the author offers us more than 30 carefully crafted essays, each one notable for its insight, intelligence, and typically graceful prose. The opening section, A Voice from the Easy Chair, reflects Crowley's tenure as Easy Chair columnist for Harper's Magazine. Subjects include life under the once omni-present threat of the Selective Service Board, the enduring personal importance of the Encyclopedia Britannica, and thoughts on what it means to be truly well read. The second section, Fictional Voices, is filled with acute commentary on a wide range of books and writers, among them SF masters such as Paul Park, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Thomas Disch; the important, if neglected, historical novelist David Stacton (a model for the fictional Fellowes Kraft of the Ægypt novels); classic science fiction novels of the 1950s, and much, much more. The final section, Looking Outward, Looking In, ranges freely across a wide variety of subjects and ideas, such as UFO literature, the utopian architecture of Norman Bel Geddes, the life and career of renowned theosophist Helena Blavatsky, and the nature of time.
©2019 John Crowley (P)2020 Tantor