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No One Is Talking About This
- Narrated by: Kristen Sieh
- Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Bloomsbury presents No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood, read by Kristen Sieh.
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2021.
Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021.
This is a story about a life lived in two halves.
It’s about what happens when real life collides with the increasing absurdity of a world accessed through a screen.
It’s about where we go when existential threats loom and the high stakes of reality that claim us back.
It’s about living in world that contains both an abundance of proof that there is goodness, empathy and justice in the universe and a deluge of evidence to the contrary.
Irreverent and sincere, poignant and delightfully profane, No One Is Talking About This is a meditation on love, language and human connection from one of the most original voices of our time.
Critic Reviews
"I really admire and love this book. Patricia Lockwood is a completely singular talent and this is her best, funniest, weirdest, most affecting work yet." (Sally Rooney)
"A furiously original novel, alive and unstable." (Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror)
"A formidably gifted writer who can do pretty much anything she pleases." (New York Times Book Review)
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- Sophie
- 12-01-2022
Trying to be a bit too meta
Maybe it’s because I work in tech but I found this all a bit much. Harper on the same point about social media in a lot of different ways. Part 2 was very powerful though - more of that would have been better.
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- Katarina
- 07-08-2021
Incredible
So funny and sharp, and then so beautiful. This book blew me away. The narrator was excellent too.
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- Amazon Customer
- 17-12-2021
doesn't translate well to audio
the text is written as a series of tweets, the story is great but in audio form it's staccato and bitsy - this is a book that's better read
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- Adrianne
- 14-11-2021
Something New Under the Sun
I was blown away by this book. It is so original, beautifully written and in the first part of the book, incredibly funny. It's often like stand-up, observational comedy that moves from one observation or idea to the next. It shifts from the profane to the sacred in a heartbeat- particularly in part two which is heartbreakingly beautiful. definitely the best book of 2021 for me!
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- Nawwal
- 25-02-2022
Different
If you are looking for a different style of book, then this is for you. Although it does require some patience.
As others have mentioned before, it is rather disjointed and I think that it would work better in physical form (not audio). It was hard to understand where one thought started and another began because we couldn't see the formatting.
But it was an interesting story and important for our times.
Essentially it is about the shallowness of the internet and the importance of what is in front of you.
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- Russell
- 08-11-2021
A tough listen
The first half is a 2 hour slog that feels like 2 days. It almost feels like it's written in the context of someone's twitter stream. It is disjointed and un-amusing. But in hindsight i think that's what it's supposed to be – a reflection on the vacuousness that is social media. Overall, the book delivered it's message quickly but caused me a lot of frustration and annoyance along the way... and I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because I'm not a twitterer.
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- Saraswati
- 14-01-2022
Way too fragmented
This book is basically in two parts and could be two different books; one a treatise of the superficiality of social media and one a dive into heartbreaking reality. And neither works.
I feel as though the author is trying too hard to impress us with snippets of profound/clever/humourous writing. It's less a novel and more a very scattered stream of consciousness.. some silly, some hilarious, some wise, some really irritating. But it doesn't flow at all, nor does it segue in a meaningful way between the two parts. I had to force myself to finish it, and that's not a great advertisement for any book.
I get it.. it's a superficial world and we forget about what is meaningful until we are forced into facing deeply challenging situations. But there are far more engaging ways to say it.
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- Michellington
- 28-03-2022
Not worth the effort.
Talk about the Emporer's New Clothes. What a stream of consciousness seweragefest. Tedious, dull, grinding. I get it. I get the gist of what the raving was all about. But as it is delivered as this confused, churned up mouli- mashed baby pap crap, it just doesn't make for a great read. It's simply a concept that the intelligentsia loved I think. I am certain many didn't even read it. To be fair, I didn't bother going past chapter 7. It just wasn't worth the effort.
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