You Don't Love Me Yet
(OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, OverDrive Listen)
Description
Lucinda Hoekke spends eight hours a day at the Complaint Line, listening to anonymous callers air their random grievances. One frequent caller, who insists on speaking only to Lucinda, captivates her with his off-color ruminations and opaque self-reflections. In blatant defiance of the rules, Lucinda and the Complainer arrange a face-to-face meeting–and fall desperately in love.
Consumed by passion, Lucinda manages only to tear herself away from the Complainer to practice with the alternative band in which she plays bass. Hoping to recharge the band’s creative energy, Lucinda “suggests” some of the Complainer’s philosophical musings to the band’s lyricist, Bedwin. When Bedwin transforms them into brilliant songs, the band gets its big break, including an invitation to appear on L.A.’s premier alternative radio show. The only problem is the Complainer. He insists on joining the band, with disastrous consequences for all.
Brimming with satire and sex, YOU DON’T LOVE ME YET is a funny and affectionate send-up of the alternative band scene, the city of Los Angeles, and the entire genre of romantic comedy, but remains unmistakably the work of the inimitable Jonathan Lethem.
Formats
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.
More Copies In LINK+
More Details
Reviews from GoodReads
Citations
Jonathan Lethem. (2007). You Don't Love Me Yet. Unabridged Books on Tape.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Jonathan Lethem. 2007. You Don't Love Me Yet. Books on Tape.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Jonathan Lethem, You Don't Love Me Yet. Books on Tape, 2007.
MLA Citation (style guide)Jonathan Lethem. You Don't Love Me Yet. Unabridged Books on Tape, 2007.
Copy Details
Library | Owned | Available |
---|---|---|
Shared Digital Collection | 1 | 1 |
Staff View
QR Code
API Extraction Dates
OverDrive Product Record
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1191-1/{93144187-B4CC-465B-87AD-C80BFE481AEE}Img100.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1191-1/{93144187-B4CC-465B-87AD-C80BFE481AEE}Img200.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/1191-1/931/441/87/{93144187-B4CC-465B-87AD-C80BFE481AEE}Img150.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/1191-1/931/441/87/{93144187-B4CC-465B-87AD-C80BFE481AEE}Img400.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- formats
- identifiers:
- type: KoboAudioID
- value: penguinrandomhouse_audio#9780739314951
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781415936894
- name: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
- id: audiobook-mp3
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: KoboAudioID
- value: penguinrandomhouse_audio#9780739314951
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781415936894
- name: OverDrive Listen
- id: audiobook-overdrive
- identifiers:
- otherFormatIdentifiers
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781415935880
- mediaType
- Audiobook
- primaryCreator
- role: Author
- name: Jonathan Lethem
- title
- You Don't Love Me Yet
- dateAdded
- 2007-03-16T01:04:39.27Z
- contentDetails
- href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=141&titleID=116823
- type: text/html
- account:
- name: Sacramento Public Library (CA)
- id: 1151
- sortTitle
- You Dont Love Me Yet
- crossRefId
- 116823
- id
- 93144187-B4CC-465B-87AD-C80BFE481AEE
- starRating
- 2.4
OverDrive MetaData
- isPublicDomain
- False
- formats
- duration: 06:15:01
- fileName: YouDontLoveMeYet_9780739314951_116823
- partCount: 5
- fileSize: 180322020
- identifiers:
- audience: retailer
- type: 8
- value: penguinrandomhouse_audio#9780739314951
- audience: library
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781415936894
- rights:
- type: PlayOnPC
- value: 1
- type: PlayOnPCCount
- value: -1
- type: BurnToCD
- value: 1
- type: BurnToCDCount
- value: -1
- type: PlayOnPM
- value: 1
- type: TransferToSDMI
- value: 1
- type: TransferToNonSDMI
- value: 1
- type: TransferCount
- value: -1
- type: CollaborativePlay
- value: 0
- type: PublicPerformance
- value: 0
- type: TranscodeToAAC
- value: 1
- name: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
- isReadAlong: False
- id: audiobook-mp3
- onSaleDate: 3/13/2007
- samples:
- source: Part 1
- formatType: audiobook-mp3
- url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/116823-YouDontLoveMeYet.mp3
- source: Part 1
- formatType: audiobook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=93144187-B4CC-465B-87AD-C80BFE481AEE&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- duration: 06:15:01
- fileName: YouDontLoveMeYet9781415936894
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 180014182
- identifiers:
- audience: retailer
- type: 8
- value: penguinrandomhouse_audio#9780739314951
- audience: library
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781415936894
- name: OverDrive Listen
- isReadAlong: False
- id: audiobook-overdrive
- onSaleDate: 3/13/2007
- samples:
- source: Part 1
- formatType: audiobook-mp3
- url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/116823-YouDontLoveMeYet.mp3
- source: Part 1
- formatType: audiobook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=93144187-B4CC-465B-87AD-C80BFE481AEE&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- creators
- role: Author
- fileAs: Lethem Jonathan
- bioText: Jonathan Lethem is the New York Times bestselling author of nine novels, including Dissident Gardens, Chronic City, The Fortress of Solitude, and Motherless Brooklyn, and of the essay collection The Ecstasy of Influence, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, Lethem has been published in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and the New York Times, among other publications.
- name: Jonathan Lethem
- role: Narrator
- fileAs: Lethem Jonathan
- bioText: Jonathan Lethem is the New York Times bestselling author of nine novels, including Dissident Gardens, Chronic City, The Fortress of Solitude, and Motherless Brooklyn, and of the essay collection The Ecstasy of Influence, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, Lethem has been published in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and the New York Times, among other publications.
- name: Jonathan Lethem
- imprint
- Random House Audio
- publishDate
- 2007-03-20T00:00:00-04:00
- edition
- Unabridged
- isOwnedByCollections
- True
- title
- You Don't Love Me Yet
- fullDescription
- From the incomparable Jonathan Lethem, a raucous romantic farce that explores the paradoxes of love and art
Lucinda Hoekke spends eight hours a day at the Complaint Line, listening to anonymous callers air their random grievances. One frequent caller, who insists on speaking only to Lucinda, captivates her with his off-color ruminations and opaque self-reflections. In blatant defiance of the rules, Lucinda and the Complainer arrange a face-to-face meeting–and fall desperately in love.
Consumed by passion, Lucinda manages only to tear herself away from the Complainer to practice with the alternative band in which she plays bass. Hoping to recharge the band’s creative energy, Lucinda “suggests” some of the Complainer’s philosophical musings to the band’s lyricist, Bedwin. When Bedwin transforms them into brilliant songs, the band gets its big break, including an invitation to appear on L.A.’s premier alternative radio show. The only problem is the Complainer. He insists on joining the band, with disastrous consequences for all.
Brimming with satire and sex, YOU DON’T LOVE ME YET is a funny and affectionate send-up of the alternative band scene, the city of Los Angeles, and the entire genre of romantic comedy, but remains unmistakably the work of the inimitable Jonathan Lethem. - reviews
- premium: False
- source: Los Angeles Times
- content: "Smart and funny . . . a biting satirical take on the intersection of art and commerce, integrity and façade. . . . A send up of all things cool."
- premium: False
- source: Rolling Stone
- content: "Fit to be devoured over a weekend."
- premium: False
- source: The Independent
- content: "A gentle and hip romantic comedy [that] breezes through LA's iconoclastic anonymity with a refreshing sincerity."
- premium: False
- source: Greil Marcus, Interview
- content: "His best since Gun, With Occasional Music . . . what makes the book sing are Lethem's accounts of what happens when a crowd on the street hears a band inside a building . . . or when for a moment four musicians understand each other better than anyone of them understands him or herself."
- premium: True
- source:
- content: Hearing Lethem giving his characters the exact amount of quirkiness he intends is a delight. And his characters are definitely quirky. Against a background of failed sexual encounters we hear about a kangaroo rescued from the zoo and set up in a bath tub, a conceptual artist who organizes a pseudo complaint phone line, a party given by an armpit-sniffer that's not really a party, complete with non-food and a silent band going through the motions. However, the party-goers eat the food, the unknown band is heard and noticed, and an obscure complainer with a knack for the quick phrase is pushed to the spotlight. This is a Los Angeles few listeners would have imagined. R.R. (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine
- premium: True
- source:
- content:
September 25, 2006
Lethem (Fortress of Solitude
; Motherless Brooklyn
; etc.) strays from hometown Brooklyn to recount the near-fame experience of a Los Angeles alternative rock band. Its success depends on bass guitarist Lucinda Hoekke, an unwitting femme fatale whose irrational whims torture the artsy Gen-Xers in her orbit. When the novel opens, she's answering phones for a complaint line designed to also function as a "theatrical piece" and is charmed by the eloquent gripes of one serial caller, a professional phrase writer named Carl. (He's responsible for coining "All thinking is wishful," among others.) They embark on a sex-drenched bender that culminates with the band's debut performance—a breakout success. Lucinda is the band's "secret genius," having provided the ideas for the catchiest songs; only she cribbed them from Carl, whose cooperation must be purchased with a token position in the band. Zany disaster ensues in this entertaining but largely insubstantial romantic farce. Lethem tricks out the plot with his usual social wit (music moguls are "unyouthful men in youthful clothes"), but from a writer whose previous books have carved new notches on the literary wall, this measures up as stunted growth.
- popularity
- 57
- links
- self:
- href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BWwAAAA2I/products/93144187-b4cc-465b-87ad-c80bfe481aee/metadata
- type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
- shareInLibby:
- href: https://link.overdrive.com/share?q=V8gBAMShdiw
- type: text/HTML
- self:
- id
- 93144187-b4cc-465b-87ad-c80bfe481aee
- starRating
- 2.4
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1191-1/{93144187-B4CC-465B-87AD-C80BFE481AEE}Img100.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1191-1/{93144187-B4CC-465B-87AD-C80BFE481AEE}Img200.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/1191-1/931/441/87/{93144187-B4CC-465B-87AD-C80BFE481AEE}Img150.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/1191-1/931/441/87/{93144187-B4CC-465B-87AD-C80BFE481AEE}Img400.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- isPublicPerformanceAllowed
- False
- languages
- code: en
- name: English
- subjects
- value: Fiction
- value: Literature
- value: Humor (Fiction)
- publishDateText
- 03/20/2007
- otherFormatIdentifiers
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781415935880
- mediaType
- Audiobook
- shortDescription
- From the incomparable Jonathan Lethem, a raucous romantic farce that explores the paradoxes of love and art
Lucinda Hoekke spends eight hours a day at the Complaint Line, listening to anonymous callers air their random grievances. One frequent caller, who insists on speaking only to Lucinda, captivates her with his off-color ruminations and opaque self-reflections. In blatant defiance of the rules, Lucinda and the Complainer arrange a face-to-face meeting–and fall desperately in love.
Consumed by passion, Lucinda manages only to tear herself away from the Complainer to practice with the alternative band in which she plays bass. Hoping to recharge the band’s creative energy, Lucinda “suggests” some of the Complainer’s philosophical musings to the band’s lyricist, Bedwin. When Bedwin transforms them into brilliant songs, the band gets its big break, including an invitation to appear on L.A.’s premier alternative radio show. The only... - sortTitle
- You Dont Love Me Yet
- crossRefId
- 116823
- publisher
- Books on Tape
- bisacCodes
- code: FIC016000
- description: Fiction / Humorous / General
- code: FIC019000
- description: Fiction / Literary
- code: FIC044000
- description: Fiction / Contemporary Women