Born Again
Alfred Lawson
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"I doubt that anyone who reads [Born Again] will ever forget it: it is quite singularly bad, with long indigestible rants against the evils of the world, an impossibly idealistic Utopian prescription for the said evils, and - as you will have gathered - a very silly plot." - oddbooks.co.uk
Alfred Lawson was a veritable Renaissance man: a professional baseball player, a luminary in the field of aviation, an outspoken advocate of vegetarianism and economic reform, and the founder of a pseudo-scientific crackpot philosophy called Lawsonomy. Born Again, his only novel, is a bizarre, delirious, and delightfully silly utopian science-fiction novel that lays the groundwork for the philosophy that would later dominate Lawson's life. It tells the story of John Convert, a wayward, seafaring soul (based loosely on Lawson, minus the conveniently symbolic initials) who is tossed overboard by his crewmen after a physical altercation. Convert awakens on an island inhabited by a race of superhuman giants -- called the Sagemen -- who slumber in their subterranean city. He then meets Arletta, a giantess who takes Convert on a journey that will change his life in ways too fantastically strange to imagine. (Introduction by ChuckW) (7 hr 46 min)
Chapters
00 - Dedication | 2:11 | Read by Chuck Williamson |
01 - Chapter I | 7:00 | Read by Chuck Williamson |
02 - Chapter II | 5:08 | Read by Chuck Williamson |
03 - Chapter III | 6:28 | Read by Chuck Williamson |
04 - Chapter IV | 8:10 | Read by Chuck Williamson |
05 - Chapter V | 11:50 | Read by Chuck Williamson |
06 - Chapter VI | 9:02 | Read by Chuck Williamson |
07 - Chapter VII | 11:54 | Read by Gabriela Cowan |
08 - Chapter VIII | 14:42 | Read by Gabriela Cowan |
09 - Chapter IX | 14:10 | Read by Gabriela Cowan |
10 - Chapter X | 17:46 | Read by Gabriela Cowan |
11 - Chapter XI | 11:15 | Read by Gabriela Cowan |
12 - Chapter XII | 12:12 | Read by Gabriela Cowan |
13 - Chapter XIII | 6:42 | Read by Gabriela Cowan |
14 - Chapter XIV | 8:05 | Read by Gabriela Cowan |
15 - Chapter XV | 10:36 | Read by Gabriela Cowan |
16 - Chapter XVI | 22:45 | Read by Gabriela Cowan |
17 - Chapter XVII | 11:55 | Read by Gabriela Cowan |
18 - Chapter XVIII | 14:39 | Read by Gabriela Cowan |
19 - Chapter XIX | 11:15 | Read by Gabriela Cowan |
20 - Chapter XX | 13:51 | Read by Gabriela Cowan |
21 - Chapter XXI | 14:29 | Read by Gabriela Cowan |
22 - Chapter XXII | 14:02 | Read by Gabriela Cowan |
23 - Chapter XXIII | 13:53 | Read by Gabriela Cowan |
24 - Chapter XXIV | 10:47 | Read by Gabriela Cowan |
25 - Chapter XXV | 17:04 | Read by Gabriela Cowan |
26 - Chapter XXVI | 9:20 | Read by Gabriela Cowan |
27 - Chapter XXVII | 15:00 | Read by Gabriela Cowan |
28 - Chapter XXVIII | 18:39 | Read by Gabriela Cowan |
29 - Chapter XXIX | 14:56 | Read by Gabriela Cowan |
30 - Chapter XXX | 14:41 | Read by Gabriela Cowan |
31 - Chapter XXXI | 15:12 | Read by Gabriela Cowan |
32 - Chapter XXXII | 8:08 | Read by Gabriela Cowan |
33 - Chapter XXXIII | 14:42 | Read by Gabriela Cowan |
34 - Epilogue (Part 1) | 26:17 | Read by Gabriela Cowan |
35 - Epilogue (Part 2) and Stray Shots | 27:42 | Read by Gabriela Cowan |
Reviews
rereading listening to this book
Richard V Lingenfelter
i started this book about 41/2 years ago and was very intread and thankfull of the it being avaable . for some reason or less i did not finish it and till now picked it up and finished now. not much i will can say other then its a mush read. it pulls you in the same way it takes you out? in good spirts! thank you to the ones that have read this book. our blessing are still moving the way we want them. rvl
one of my fav's
Richard
very well written book