Details:
- author: Simon Rich
- full title: New Teeth
- narrator: Fred Berman
- genre: short stories, humor
- topics: #children #pirates #robots #parenting #office #ai
- publisher: Little, Brown & Company
- publish date: 27.07.2021
- timing: 4:33:00
My Rating of the Audiobook:
- content: 💙💙💙💙
- narration: 💙💙💙💙💙
Excerpt from the Book:
And it was a night like no other I have lived through, louder and more vicious than the blimeyist sou'wester. The small girl kept crying, and asking us for biscuits, and when we finally gave in and brought her some, she started asking both of us for dolls. And I kept telling her, "Arr, we be pirates, we don't be having dolls," but she would keep screaming. And so eventually, to shut her up, I gave her me peg-leg and said, "Here, this be a doll," and that worked for a spell, but then the crying started again, and Rotten Pete went down, and when he came back up, he started building something out of canvas, and I asked him what he be doing, and he said, very quietly, "Arr, I be building a doll bed for her peg-leg doll, because it be needing a bed. It be part of the game that she be playing with her doll. And also, just so you know, the name of her peg-leg doll be Peggy, so if she be asking for Peggy, that be what she means." And by dawn, I had made up me mind that sharks or no sharks, it was time for the girl to walk the plank.
Exerpt from Learning the Ropes
Short Stories in this collection:
- Learning the Ropes
- LaserDisc
- The Big Nap
- Beauty and the Beast
- Chip
- Revolution
- Clobbo
- Case Study
- Rased by Wolves
- Screwball
- Everyday Parenting Tips
My Thoughts:
New Teeth is a collection of 11 great short stories. Not all of them are equally good, though. They are very entertaining, but some stories are outstanding. My favorite one is “Learning the Ropes”, which is about two pirates: Black Bones, Rotten Pete, and a little girl. The narrator was excellent; he narrated each story differently, each in its own unique style. If you are searching for a book that will make you laugh, I would recommend you to read this book, or even better to listen to an audiobook.
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