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Nothing Good Can Come from This
- Essays
- Narrated by: Kristi Coulter
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
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Summary
This program is read by the author.
Kristi Coulter inspired and incensed the Internet when she wrote about what happened when she stopped drinking. Nothing Good Can Come from This is her debut audiobook - a frank, funny, and feminist essay collection by a keen-eyed observer no longer numbed into complacency.
When Kristi stopped drinking, she started noticing things. Like when you give up a debilitating habit, it leaves a space, one that can’t easily be filled by mocktails or ice cream or sex or crafting. And when you cancel Rosé Season for yourself, you’re left with just summer, and that’s when you notice that the women around you are tanked - that alcohol is the oil in the motors that keeps them purring when they could be making other kinds of noise.
In her sharp, incisive debut essay collection, Coulter reveals a portrait of a life in transition. By turns hilarious and heartrending, Nothing Good Can Come from This introduces a fierce new voice to fans of Sloane Crosley, David Sedaris, and Cheryl Strayed - perfect for anyone who has ever stood in the middle of a so-called perfect life and looked for an escape hatch.
Critic reviews
"Kristi Coulter charts the raw, unvarnished, and quietly riveting terrain of new sobriety with wit and warmth. Nothing Good Can Come from This is a book about generative discomfort, surprising sources of beauty, and the odd, often hilarious, business of being human." (Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams and The Recovering)
"Brave, whip-smart, and laugh-out-loud funny.... Although this is framed as a book about drinking, it’s ultimately about so much more: the insidious reasons why so many of us might polish off an entire bottle of Chardonnay in the first place - and how we might better serve ourselves in the end. Coulter herself is addictive to read. She’s a fresh, uncensored voice, offering up more than a drop of insight and hope." (New York Times best-selling author Susan Jane Gilman)
"What’s the opposite of disappointment? Oh right, pure joy.That’s what I felt reading Nothing Good Can Come from This. I was dazzled by Kristi Coulter’s honesty, her humor, and above all her beautiful, perfectly tuned sentences. Rarely do formal invention and real emotion coexist so comfortably; in other words, both intelligence and heart are on full display here. It’s difficult to imagine a more, well, joyous reading experience." (Claire Dederer, author of Love and Trouble)
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- Patrick McMahon
- 08-05-20
Outstanding
One of the best sober reads ever.
Clever, witty, truthful and utterly devoid of self pity.
Highly recommend
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- 31-08-18
Absolutely fantastic
Brilliant, a book I’ll listen to again! The essay style is great because you get lots of little stories intertwined.
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- Lesley J
- 05-09-20
A great listen!
Really enjoyed listening to this book. Wasn't sure about the accent at first but as it is authentic and the author's, I quickly got over that. Makes you feel privileged to have a peek inside someone else's struggle to become sober. Very real and very interesting.
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- Thomas Craig
- 07-12-20
Honest and inspiring
Wonderfully honest insight into the struggles of coming to terms with the fact you have a drinking problem.
I really enjoyed hearing this from the point of view of a successful woman.
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- A.i. Jesus
- 25-04-19
Depressed woman plays victim - Rank
This awful woman has a terrible extreme left wing ideology. She plays the victim. She is anti men. She wonders why she is depressed and drinks. I'm gutted I bought this book.
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- MVG
- 23-09-20
No structure
I bought this despite reviews saying it lacked structure and I have to agree. Felt like she kept circling around to the same things like the film Groundhog Day. Would have preferred chapters divided into themes like - Childhood in Florida; Working for Amazon; Running; Business trips abroad; Marriage.....
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-04-22
Thank god I’ve finished it.
If you like hearing too many details about a complete strangers sex life then this book is for you.
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