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Kristen Sieh
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Bloomsbury presents No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood, read by Kristen Sieh.
‘A masterpiece’ Guardian
‘I really admire and love this book’ Sally Rooney
‘An intellectual and emotional rollercoaster’ Daily Mail
‘I can’t remember the last time I laughed so much reading a book’ David Sedaris
‘It moved me to tears’ Elizabeth Day
THE ONLY BOOK SHORTLISTED FOR BOTH THE BOOKER PRIZE AND THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021
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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 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.
It's a meditation on love, language and human connection from one of the most original voices of our time.
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‘An utterly distinctive mixture of depth, dazzling linguistic richness, anarchic wit and raw emotional candour’ Rowan Williams
A 2021 Book of the Year: Sunday Times, Guardian, Daily Mail, Telegraph, Evening Standard, The Times, New Statesman, Red, Observer, Independent, Daily Telegraph
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-12-21
not what I expected but I loved every minute
I think this book will really resonate with people of a certain generation. The author simultaneously mocks and worships 'the portal' (the internet), finding humour where there is none and reverentially contemplating the ridiculous - and handles this balancing act with ease. The book takes a shocking U-turn around the halfway mark and becomes something quite different - real, personal, ageless. Highly recommended.
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- dillpickle
- 01-02-22
Something All Of Its Own
This is such a strange and beautiful little book, that it is difficult to describe it. It starts out quite arch, artificial,and almost pleased with its own cleverness (much like the portal it so often references) and then that performance falls away to reveal something tender, tentative and utterly human. I've never read (listened) to anything like it before - Lockwood's background as a poet clearly influenced the writing. To top it off, Kristen Sieh's narration was perfect, and added in something extra to the story.
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- Aisling
- 18-05-21
Fantastic
I absorbed this audiobook in 24 hours, it's surprising, emotional and wonderfully written and recorded. Definitely recommend choosing this book, you won't regret it.
Now I'm off to get a hard copy so I can experience it all over again!
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- Miss M. Maheshwari
- 24-06-22
Beautiful, moving
At the start listening to this felt jarring, like hearing someone read tweets, but the performance and the story are gripping and excellent. It’s such a compelling reflection of how we live our lives today, the realities of a life lived through our devices and the very extraordinary turn reality can take which reminds that often the most significant moments of our lives only mean something to a very small number of people.
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- M. Peters
- 22-01-22
Funny and Touching
A story both funny and touching is made even stronger by an excellent audiobook narrator.
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- I Braun
- 06-12-21
Beautiful
So, so Beautiful. Engrossing and thought provoking. Profound listening experience and the reading is superb.
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- Kilagroo
- 13-12-21
Not my cup of tea
I couldn't finish it, I couldn't really make head nor tail out of it, I think its prob way above my academic level 🤣 am sure it's amazing for other people but it was lost on me, Apologies to the author
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- ThatPersonOverThere
- 24-12-21
Laugh and cry
Such a fascinating and unpredictable mixture of irreverent laugh out loud mockery of our ridiculous online culture and heart-wrenching humanity. Wonderful.
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- Kindle Customer
- 09-06-21
A lyrical book about love, life and the portal
This book looks at our relationship with the Internet and where it might lead. Then how one moment can change everything and this can teach us to appreciate every minute in the physical world as well.
A beautifully written poetic novel. Perfect for these pandemic times to remind us as we emerge blinking in the sunlight to appreciate real relationships as well as virtual ones.
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- Lyds
- 11-01-22
Even if it’s not your cup of tea, give it a chance
I think people struggle with this as its style is quite fragmentary and disjointed - but reflecting the fragmentary nature of writing in the internet (herein nicknamed ‘The Portal’), it captures something desperate and urgent about the narrator’s grapple with the personal and real, versus the synthetic and ephemeral world of the Portal in which she has carved a career, and an identity.
The vulgarity of some of the descriptions in the first half are necessary to establish the harsh, brazen world of extremes and binaries in the internet world, which contrasts with the complexity of the real world - the subtleties of the delicate personal grief which unfolds in the second half, overlaid with bittersweet joy of a tiny new life.
I cried at the end in the acknowledgements.
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