Slate's Audio Bookclub: Tree of Smoke
Slate Books
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3.8 • 546 Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2008
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | There is a live bomb still attached to your car. |
| 0:03.3 | I had a wedding to go to, says Nick, Elizabeth Nguards. |
| 0:06.9 | And if it should go off sometime today, bombs do, you know. |
| 0:10.7 | You'll be fine with it killing one of your neighbours? |
| 0:13.9 | You don't know my neighbours. |
| 0:16.6 | Richard Osmond's multi-million copy bestselling Thursday Murder Club series |
| 0:19.9 | returns with his latest novel, The Impossible Fortune, the gang's most explosive adventure yet. |
| 0:25.7 | Listen to the audiobook of The Impossible Fortune Now, read by me, Fiona Shaw. |
| 0:30.5 | This is your latest project. |
| 0:33.6 | It's heavy with information, data and exactly 36 pages of waffle. |
| 0:39.7 | But with Acrobat Studio, you can create a PDF space, an AI-powered workspace that turns |
| 0:45.4 | documents into summaries and insights and even generates reports or presentations out of it. |
| 0:51.3 | So you can cut through the waffle, work smarter and save time. |
| 0:55.6 | Do that with Acrobat. Learn more and try it out on adobe.com. |
| 1:10.1 | Hello and welcome to Slate's audio book Club. I'm June Thomas. Today our club members are discussing Tree of Smoke by Dennis Johnson. Here's our host, Megan O'Rourke. Hello, I'm Megan O'Rourke, Slate's literary editor, and I'm welcoming you today to our monthly audio book club. |
| 1:28.9 | Our participants today are one of our regulars, Katie Roifey, a slate contributor and a professor |
| 1:34.6 | at New York University's School of Journalism, and a guest visitor, James Sirwicky, |
| 1:40.6 | a Slate contributor and the financial columnist for The New Yorker magazine. |
| 1:44.9 | Welcome to both of you. |
| 1:46.6 | Today we are talking about Dennis Johnson's Tree of Smoke, |
| 1:50.3 | about which there is some real diversity of opinion, we think. |
| 1:54.2 | It's a big sprawling book about Vietnam, |
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