RAGUS: The Sweetest Thing That Ever Hurt Us
By Vernon Snell
Length3h 35m
About this audiobook
Everybody knows Sugar. Nobody knows Ragus.
Ragus is sugar spelled backward—a charming crystal cat-robot with candy-colored eyes, mechanical joints, a barcode eye, and a silver tail shaped like a question mark. Wherever pleasure becomes control, convenience becomes dependency, or “more” disguises itself as happiness, Ragus appears.
Nobody follows his trail through plantations, factories, advertisements, hospitals, stadiums, classrooms, politics, money, technology, war, religion, love, beauty, art, and the human mind. Along the way, Science, History, Commerce, Authority, and Street Knowledge reveal how something useful or joyful can grow into a system that forgets the people it was supposed to serve.
Blending poetic fiction, social satire, philosophy, history, humor, and surreal cartoon imagery, *RAGUS: The Sweetest Thing That Ever Hurt Us* asks one unforgettable question:
**When does more become too much?**
Audiobook details
GenreHumor
Length3 hrs 35 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 16, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2The Ragus Chronicles
3How to Read This Book
4The Cast
5Chapter One: Everybody Loves Him
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6Chapter Two: The Grain That Traveled Backward
7Chapter Three: The Factory That Learned to Smile
8Chapter Four: The Champion’s Drink
9Chapter Five: The Brain with a Doorbell
10Chapter Six: The Hospital Beside the Store
11Chapter Seven: The Children’s Laboratory
12Chapter Eight: The Name They Could Not Sell
13Chapter Nine: The Election That Never Ended
14Chapter Ten: The Man Who Could Not Afford Enough
15Chapter Eleven: The Mirror That Was Never Satisfied
16Chapter Twelve: The Heart with a Scoreboard
17Chapter Thirteen: The Artist Who Became Content
18Chapter Fourteen: The Trial of Ragus Part 1
19Chapter Fourteen: The Trial of Ragus Part 2
20Chapter Fifteen: Enough
21Chapter Sixteen: The Peace That Needed an Enemy
22Chapter Seventeen: The Forest with a Price Tag
23Chapter Eighteen: The Temple with a Checkout Counter
24Chapter Nineteen: The Cage That Kept Growing
25Chapter Twenty: The Child Who Became a Grade
26Afterword: The Creature Was Never Just Sugar
27The Ragus Field Guide
28About Vernon Snell
29About Poetic Cinema
30Connect with Poetic Cinema Studio
31Final Note to the Reader
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