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EPISODE · Oct 11, 2022 · 7H 14M

Penn Jillette - Random

from Discover Top Audiobooks in Fiction, Coming of Age · host Penn Jillette

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622058 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Random Author: Penn Jillette Narrator: Penn Jillette Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 14 minutes Release date: October 11, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.43 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Two weeks before his twenty-first birthday, Las Vegas native Bobby Ingersoll finds out he’s inherited a crushing gambling debt from his scumbag father. The debt is owed to an even scummier bag named Fraser Ruphart who oversees his bottom-rung criminal empire from the classy-adjacent Trump International Hotel. Bobby’s prospects of paying off the note, which comes due the day he turns twenty-one, are about as dim as the sign on the tower’s façade. The two weeks pass in the blink of a (snake) eye, but before Bobby’s luck runs out, he stumbles upon enough cash to pay Ruphart off and change his family’s fortune. More importantly, he finds himself with a new, for lack of a better word, faith. Bobby does not consign his big break to a “higher power'—what Penn Jillette hero ever could? Instead, he devises and devotes himself to Random, a philosophy where his life choices are based entirely on the roll of his “lucky” dice. What follows is a hilarious exploration into not so much what defines us as what divines us when we give over every decision—from what to eat to whom to marry to how or when to die—to the random fall of two numbered cubes. Combining the intellectual curiosity of Richard Dawkins with the humor and grit of an Elmore Leonard antihero, Jillette’s up-on-his-luck Ingersoll is the character we need to help us navigate the chaos of the post-truth era. Well, unless his roll runs cold.

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