
Modern Romance
An Investigation
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Narrated by:
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Aziz Ansari
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By:
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Aziz Ansari
About this listen
At some point every one of us embarks on a journey to find love. We meet people, date, get into and out of relationships, all with the hope of finding someone with whom we share a deep connection. This seems standard now, but it's wildly different from what people did even just decades ago. Single people today have more romantic options than at any point in human history. With technology, our abilities to connect with and sort through these options are staggering. So why are so many people frustrated?
Some of our problems are unique to our time."Why did this guy just text me an emoji of a pizza?" "Should I go out with this girl even though she listed Combos as one of her favorite snack foods? Combos?!" "My girlfriend just got a message from some dude named Nathan. Who's Nathan? Did he just send her a photo of his penis? Should I check just to be sure?"
But the transformation of our romantic lives can't be explained by technology alone. In a short period of time, the whole culture of finding love has changed dramatically. A few decades ago, people would find a decent person who lived in their neighbourhood. Their families would meet and, after deciding neither party seemed like a murderer, they would get married and soon have a kid, all by the time they were 24. Today people marry later than ever and spend years of their lives on a quest to find the perfect person, a soul mate.
For years Aziz Ansari has been aiming his comic insight at modern romance, but for Modern Romance the book, he decided he needed to take things to another level. He teamed up with NYU sociologist Eric Klinenberg and designed a massive research project, including hundreds of interviews and focus groups conducted everywhere from Tokyo to Buenos Aires to Wichita. They analysed behavioural data and surveys and created their own online research forum on Reddit, which drew thousands of messages. They enlisted the world's leading social scientists, including Eli Finkel, Helen Fisher, Sheena Iyengar, Barry Schwartz, Sherry Turkle, and Robb Willer. The result is unlike any social science or humour book we've seen before.
In Modern Romance, Ansari combines his irreverent humour with cutting-edge social science to give us an unforgettable tour of our new romantic world.
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Loved it!
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Aziz as you'd expect
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Aziz is hilarious
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The subject matter of this book is fresh and his perspective fresher, I feel like I learnt a lot about love and human interaction whilst it still being laugh out loudly funny.
A must!
A must listen for modern singles
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Ansari clearly cares about the subject and delivers a good blend of studies and interviews. He also tells a wicked joke, so if you choose to buy this book be prepared to be that nut that laughs out loud on the bus.
Insightful and funny
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So hilarious!
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Entertaining and insightful
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it is an easy and light audio book to listen too. not to be taken seriously.
witty, charming and informative
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Would definitely recommend this audiobook simply to listen to the storytelling aspect, but the subject material is also well thought out and a good take on modern romance.
Good Material, Better Man
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