Significant Others
Written by Armistead Maupin
Narrated by Cynthia Nixon
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About this audiobook
Narrated by Cynthia Nixon
Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City
The fifth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga.
Tranquillity reigns in the ancient redwood forest until a women-only music festival sets up camp downriver from an all-male retreat for the ruling class. Among those entangled in the ensuing mayhem are a lovesick nurseryman, a panic-stricken philanderer, and the world’s most beautiful fat woman. Significant Others is Armistead Maupin’s cunningly observed meditation on marriage, friendship, and sexual nostalgia.
Armistead Maupin
Armistead Maupin is the author of the Tales of the City series, which includes Tales of the City, More Tales of the City, Further Tales of the City, Babycakes, Significant Others, Sure of You, Michael Tolliver Lives, Mary Ann in Autumn, and The Days of Anna Madrigal. His other books include the memoir Logical Family and the novels Maybe the Moon and The Night Listener. Maupin was the 2012 recipient of the Lambda Literary Foundation’s Pioneer Award. He lives in London with his husband, Christopher Turner.
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Reviews for Significant Others
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I love this whole series. I read them all years ago but am delighted to find the audio version. If you haven’t read Tales of the City, I suggest you start with that and work your way through the series sequentially otherwise this probably won’t be as enjoyable. You kind of need to fall in love with the characters in the first 2 books for this one to make sense. I love the way Maupin captures the essence of the time. It’s been a delightful accompaniment for a tedious and mindless job I needed to complete.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sadly, almost every character in this particular book annoyed me, except Michael and DeDe. This was the "darkest" books yet in the series. I found nothing "uplifting". I guess that's how life goes - and this is about the characters lives.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This my favorite of the series having attended the music festival this was based on. I hadn't laughed that loud from a book in a long time.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Very very fun. A fast-moving ride. I recently finished 'Babycakes' after several years since reading the earlier books in the series and I had a little struggle with that one reconnecting with the cast of characters. Since they were still fresh in my mind, i figured why not continue on. And what a great idea! This is like a sitcom in book form. Interesting, flawed characters plunging through life, making some bad decisions while doing their best.....all start on a collision course for a ridiculous clash of cultures. Silly situations populated with silly people that you cannot help but root for. Slightly dated, for sure, but it was my time, so I'm thrilled with the dated-ness. Do not think this would necessarily stand so well on its own without the context of the earlier books, but well worth the brief amount of time invested to barrel through. Think I'll read the final one in this series soon. Yay.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Most light-hearted of the second group of three books, with a wonderful farcical story line involving neighbouring all-male and all-female holiday retreats. There's a new romantic interest for Michael, whilst Mary Ann and Brian and DeDe and D'Or all find their relationships being tested. AIDS is still there in the background, but we're allowed to feel a little bit more positive about life.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Maupin’s Tales of the City series (including this book) set in San Francisco is easy to read, gently amusing, lightweight, often sentimental and saccharine. Probably a big influence on TV shows like Friends and Sex In The City. More recently, Alexander McCall Smith has successfully emulated Maupin's achievement of writing his novels in the 44 Scotland Street series as daily newspaper instalments (in The Scotsman).
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Maupin's delightful and fascinating characters find their way through San Francisco in the late 70s. AIDS and social awareness has crept into the lives of the inhabitants of Barbary Lane. The party is winding down.