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Conversations with Friends
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
- Length: 9 hrs
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Summary
Frances, Bobbi, Nick and Melissa ask each other endless questions. As their relationships unfold, in person and online, they discuss sex and friendship, art and literature, politics and gender, and, of course, one another. Twenty-one-year-old Frances is at the heart of it all, bringing us this tale of a complex ménage-à-quatre and her affair with Nick, an older married man.
You can read Conversations with Friends as a romantic comedy, or you can read it as a feminist text. You can read it as a book about infidelity, about the pleasures and difficulties of intimacy, or about how our minds think about our bodies. However you choose to read it, it is an unforgettable novel about the possibility of love.
Critic reviews
"This book. This book. I read it in one day. I hear I'm not alone." (Sarah Jessica Parker)
"Rooney shares with Plath a knack for particularising a feminine consciousness, and this novel is the best I've read on what it means to be young and female right now." (Daily Mail)
"Sally Rooney writes with a rare, thrilling confidence, in a lucid and exacting style uncluttered with the sort of steroidal imagery and strobe flashes of figurative language that so many dutifully literary novelists employ. This isn't to say that the novel lacks beauty. Its richness blooms quietly." (New Yorker)
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- gemma white
- 21-01-23
conversations with boring friends
Not for me this one. Superficial characters, poor storyline, and the he said/she said was driving me crazy! I struggled to believe in the characters or care for any of them. Plodded on to the end in the hope there would be a plot twist.
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- Alistair barley
- 31-10-22
King drawn out book about an affair
I found the story very weak, just a drawn out story about an affair between a married man and a young girl. I felt the gay/bi sexual characters were only put in the book to appeal to the LGBGQ audience.
Characters were weak, plot was weak, at the end of each chapter there was no desire to keep reading on to the next chapter to unravel the plot or story.
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- LizBuyz
- 22-08-22
Very boring book
This is one of the worst books I’ve listened to on audible, very boring and all the characters are awful. I do not recommend.
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- Ope
- 25-01-23
Self involved characters
An air of detached pretentiousness and superficial characters. I kept going to see if there would be any character growth but there was none.
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- Mónica
- 09-12-22
Self-centred individuals.
To resume the book, it is a carousel that goes around and around. It does not end any different to how it starts. A group of self-centred individuals who are unable to put anyone happiness before themselves.
I guess I was expecting a bit of a more conflicting story in the sense that the characters would be challenged to chose between values, morals and their own feelings. In reality, when confronted with the question, they are pretty quick at doing whatever is best for their own interest.
I really enjoyed Normal people, so I had good expectations for this book. The book is not bad but it also lacks a bit of complexity.
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- liz brown
- 16-12-22
Great story
Great listen. Great story and I could listen to the Irish accent all day. And did over two days at work.
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- ChristineB
- 02-12-22
Great narration poor story
I loved the narrator's voice, accent and tones, I think she made the book more interesting than it was. I did like the author's style of writing and the way she describes things but the plot itself was poor and I didn't really like any of the characters and by the end I'd lost patience with them all! Overall this was sadly a bit of a disappointment.
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- Sarah Petter
- 22-06-22
Bottled up emotion
Sally Rooney successfully depicts the awkwardness' of a young verbally emotionally repressed but intelligent, observant twenty old student. The voices are read beautifully; and characters come across naturally.. The awkwardness is so pervasive that there are points that I found this book repulsive and annoying and this seemed to mirror how Frances felt towards the end of the book. I could relate to some aspects of Frances' character and felt my twenty odd year old smiling cringingly back !. Sally Rooney unravels twenty year olds and shows the deeper complexities of relationships and is able to highlight socio economic differences in society clearly.
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- Phumlani Khumalo
- 15-11-23
The reading is well performed. The book isn't entertaining whatsoever.
Dull, generic and boring. The target audience for this book is for individuals who've never ventured outside of the comfort zone - and never plan to.
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- Lauren N. Davies
- 30-10-23
Not for me.
I have really enjoyed other books by this author but I struggled through this one. I couldn't empathise with, and didn't like, any of the characters, particularly the main character. This, combined with not liking the plot meant I really did not enjoy this book. I found a lot of it very boring and at times unrealistic but apart from that it wasn't badly written, it just really was not for me.
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