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Love
- Narrated by: Roddy Doyle
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
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Summary
Davy and Joe have got a lot to catch up on.
Drinking pals back in their Dublin days, Davy rarely sees Joe for a pint anymore - maybe one or two when Davy’s over from England to check in on his elderly father. But tonight, one pint will turn to three and then five as Joe recounts a secret, leading the two men on a bender back to the haunts of their youth.
Joe has left his wife and family for another woman, Jessica. Davy knows her too, or he should - she was the girl of their dreams all those years ago, the girl with the cello in George’s Pub. As Joe’s story unfolds across Dublin - pub after pub - so too do the memories of what eventually drove Davy from Ireland: his first meeting with Faye (the woman who would become his wife), his father’s sombre disapproval, the pained spaces left behind when a parent dies.
As much a hymn to the Dublin and the pubs of one’s youth as a delightfully comic, yet moving portrait of what it means to try to put into words the many forms love can take, Love marks a triumphant new turn for Roddy Doyle.
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- Morrison
- 18-07-23
Perfect!
Listened to this 4 times now and always break my heart. It’s always great when an author reads his own work. One of his best.
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- Thilo Kroll
- 09-02-23
The full suite of emotions
A book full of empathy and sensitivity. Dialogues that seem so authentic as if they were overheard in a Dublin pub. We all seem to know a Joe and Dave. And find them in ourselves. Fabulous writing.
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- Rob
- 02-11-20
Great book
Great story and the use of the Irish language (the way we really talk) and bad language (lol the way we really talk too) is so real
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- mr david rowsell
- 22-01-24
Emotional
Big fan of Roddy Doyle’s books but this one left a bit lacking. Not so much a story more a series of observations. However great oration by the author which added to the authenticity and sensitivity
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- patrick
- 09-02-24
Totally emersive, no danger!!! Laa!!!
beautifully narrated with a Dublin twang.... relatiable in every sense!!! life is funny in many ways...
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- Robert I.
- 07-11-20
Excellent
What a writer, done absolutely brilliantly, had everything, roddy doyle a true Irish legend. Excellent
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- Anthony Duffy
- 12-11-20
Narration & tone is true blue Dub.But too rambling
I couldn't finish it. I know it was intended to replicate two auld lads having a rambling drunken chat. But it rambled too long, it was over done by about 2 hrs. It also got confusing as the two characters seemed so similar.
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- eithne
- 21-03-21
Simple but also a complex subject
Incredibly profound display of Love on so many levels. Would make a great play with these two characters . Roddy has you hooked in the first chapter, beautifully read
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- C' O'S
- 31-10-20
Lust a better title no love found in this book
On a pub crawl with 2 selfish lads 50+ bickering over a lady of lust from their teenage years. Narrator was good but that didn't improve the storyline .
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- Anonymous User
- 09-11-20
So boring
The most disappointing book I’ve ever listened to 2 drunken Irish men rambling about their lives really don’t know where it was going
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