Lance Rubin has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 3 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.8★ across 4 ratings. The most-rated is Denton Little's Deathdate.
Denton Little's Still Not Dead
Summary
"Denton and his quirky friends are laugh-out-loud funny, even as their riotous adventures raise deeper questions about science, government control, life, and death." (School Library Journal) You only live once - unless you’re Denton Little! Denton Little lives in a world exactly like our own except that everyone knows the day on which they will die. The good news: Denton has lived through his deathdate. Yay! The bad news: He's being chased by the DIA (Death Investigation Agency), he can never see his family again, and he may now die anytime. Huh. Cheating death isn't quite as awesome as Denton would have thought.... Lance Rubin's debut novel, Denton Little's Deathdate, showed listeners just how funny and poignant imminent death could be. Now in this sequel, he takes on the big questions about life. How do we cope, knowing we could die at any time? Would you save someone from dying even if they were a horrible person? Is it wrong to kiss the girl your best friend is crushing on if she's really into you instead? What if she's wearing bacon lip gloss?
©2017 Lance Rubin (P)2017 Listening Library
Denton Little's Deathdate
Summary
Winner of the ILA Young Adult Book Award! Get ready to die laughing: This is an outrageously funny ride through the last hours of a teenager’s life as he searches for love, meaning, answers, and (just maybe) a way to live on. Denton Little’s Deathdate takes place in a world exactly like our own except that everyone knows the day on which they will die. For Denton, that’s in just two days - the day of his senior prom. Despite his early deathdate, Denton has always wanted to live a normal life, but his final days are filled with dramatic firsts. First hangover. First sex. First love triangle - as the first sex seems to have happened not with his adoring girlfriend, but with his best friend’s hostile sister. (Though he’s not totally sure - see, first hangover.) His anxiety builds when he discovers a strange purple rash making its way up his body. Is this what will kill him? And then a strange man shows up at his funeral, claiming to have known Denton’s long-deceased mother, and warning him to beware of suspicious government characters.... Suddenly Denton’s life is filled with mysterious questions and precious little time to find the answers. Fall in love with Denton Little! "Rubin is really funny, but like John Green, he manages to be poignant at the same time. You'll laugh out loud while you read this, but you're probably going to tear up a bit, too." (Bustle) "The dialogue is witty and raunchy, the plot is uniquely twisted, and the ending is to die for. This book will fly off the shelves." (VOYA) “Lance Rubin creates a world in which (almost) everyone can answer the question, ‘What would you do if you knew when you were going to die?’ and holy s*#! the answers are hilarious. I don’t think I’ve laughed at death so much in a long, long time. Read this book, it’ll have you dying.” (Isabel Quintero, Morris Award-winning author of Gabi, A Girl in Pieces) "Hilarious, thought-provoking, irreverent, unforgettable.... Live your own death, Dent. We love you." (Catherine Gilbert Murdock, author of Dairy Queen) “If Six Feet Under had been created by John Hughes: That’s Denton Little’s Deathdate." (Tim Federle, author of The Great American Whatever) “Wildly funny, brilliantly weird, and achingly heartfelt.” (Becky Albertalli, Morris Award-winning author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda) "Highly original, fantastically entertaining, and laugh-out-loud funny, Denton Little's Deathdate is a wild romp through a night like no other." (Jennifer E. Smith, author of The Geography of You and Me) "An utterly enjoyable, engrossing page-turner." (Bulletin) "The tweaked contemporary setting, irreverent end-of-life humor, and big, existential questions make this a good pick for fans of John Corey Whaley’s Noggin." (Publishers Weekly)
©2015 Lance Rubin (P)2015 Listening Library
Bin mal kurz tot
Summary
Wie alle anderen auch kennt der 17-jährige Denton seinen genauen Todestag. In der Zeit davor, der Todeswoche, tun die Menschen traditionell alles, was sie schon immer tun wollten. Am Tag vor seinem Tod erwacht Denton aber im Bett eines Mädchens, das definitiv nicht seine Freundin ist, die ihn irgendwie letzte Nacht verlassen haben muss. Das kann er kurz vor seiner Beerdigungszeremonie am Nachmittag eigentlich gar nicht brauchen. Auf welche Weise Denton den Tod finden wird, das weiß er noch nicht. Ein mysteriöser Fleck auf seiner Haut gibt jedoch einen ersten Hinweis. Doch dann taucht ein merkwürdiger Fremder auf seiner Beerdigung auf und erzählt allerhand Dinge, die Dentons bevorstehendes Ableben in ein ganz neues Licht rücken. Etwas stimmt hier nicht. Doch kann er noch herausfinden, was?
©2015 Piper Verlag (P)2015 Lübbe Audio
Crying Laughing
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A tragicomic story of bad dates, bad news, bad performances, and one girl's determination to find the funny in high school from the author of Denton Little's Deathdate. Winnie Friedman has been waiting for the world to catch on to what she already knows: She's hilarious. It might be a long wait, though. After bombing a stand-up set at her own bat mitzvah, Winnie has kept her jokes to herself. Well, to herself and her dad, a former comedian and her inspiration. Then, on the second day of 10th grade, the funniest guy in school actually laughs at a comment she makes in the lunch line and asks her to join the improv troupe. Maybe he's even...flirting? Just when Winnie's ready to say yes to comedy again, her father reveals that he's been diagnosed with ALS. That is...not funny. Her dad's still making jokes, though, which feels like a good thing. And Winnie's prepared to be his straight man if that's what he wants. But is it what he needs? Caught up in a spiral of epically bad dates, bad news, and bad performances, Winnie's struggling to see the humor in it all. But finding a way to laugh is exactly what will see her through. A Junior Library Guild Selection
©2019 Lance Rubin (P)2020 Listening Library