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    Conversations With Friends

    Written by Sally Rooney

    Narrated by Aoife McMahon

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    About this audiobook

    Frances is twenty-one year old college student in Dublin; she performs at spoken word events with her best friend and ex-lover, Bobbi. When they are profiled by journalist, Melissa, they enter an orbit of beautiful houses and raucous dinner parties. Initially unimpressed, Frances begins an affair with Nick, Melissa's husband, which gives way to an unexpected intimacy. Desperate to reconcile her desires and vulnerabilities of her body, Frances's intellectual certainties begin to yield to something new: a disorienting way of living from moment to moment.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Audio
    Release dateJun 1, 2017
    ISBN9781510069947
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    Conversations With Friends
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    Sally Rooney

    Sally Rooney is an Irish novelist. She is the author of Beautiful World, Where Are You, Conversations with Friends, and Normal People. She also contributed to the writing and production of the Hulu/BBC television adaptation of Normal People

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    Reviews for Conversations With Friends

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    • 5/5
      I’m offended by how good this book was. And a debut novel. What do I need to do to be this smart? I wish I was a character in her novel, despite the sadness and misery they often face.
    • 3/5
      I enjoyed the simple prose in which is written.
      The story was not relatable to me but it is certainly very realistic. I have met many people like the characters who willingly entangle themselves in difficult situations. Of course, not everything that happens falls in the category of "voluntary stupidity".
    • 2/5
      Not mine but type of book. But I do think it's well written
    • 5/5
      The characters are flawed yet so human and real. Love that it is a narrator with an Irish accent. Listened to it at 2x but it was a good narration.
    • 4/5
      I prefer Normal People for the characters and story but this is still a compelling read/listen. Rooney really effectively creates three dimensional characters and a fleshed out world for them to inhabit; she's also very good at showing both their good qualities and flaws. Frances, the protagonist and narrator, is at times infuriatingly obstinate yet I never lost sympathy for her and her thoughts and experiences are identifiable, I think, to anyone of the millennial generation, male or female.
    • 2/5
      I loved it throughout but unfortunately a very disappointing ending
    • 5/5
      Loved it.
      Especially the Irish narrator and reference to streets I remember visiting.
      Interesting characters.
      Recommended to friends.
    • 5/5
      I feel something different every time I read this book depending on where I'm at in my own life. With each read I form a different understanding of the characters, and now 2 years on from reading it last, I struggle to decide how I feel about all of them. But I don't think it really matters what exact emotions I'm feeling, the fact is Sally Rooney's writing makes sure you feel something complexcand confusing to the point that you're not even sure if you're happy or sad or satisfied, I think making your readers feel something they don't understand is an impressive skill
    • 4/5
      "Things matter to me more than they do to normal people, I thought. I need to relax and let things go. I should experiment with drugs."

      Frances is a bisexual disaster and I love her. This book is an intimate and invasive look into her day to day life as she tries to navigate her relationship with her ex girlfriend turned best friend, her parents, her body, her affair with a married man and her connection to his wife.

      Sally Rooney has a way of writing messy and complicated characters in messy and complicated relationships and I am here for all of it.

      Also the conversation on endometriosis and period pain was very important and I don't see that talked about nearly enough as it should be.

      Rating: 4 stars ?

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    • 5/5
      Absolutely loved it. Better than normal people in my opinion
    • 2/5
      Boring and awful ending. Don’t recommend it at all. Especially the second part
    • 3/5
      I loved the excellent reading of this novel, it kept me listening but not entirely convinced by the characters. The writer casts Frances as a highly intelligent and complex young woman but perhaps doesn’t realize that she comes across as a disturbed, borderline personality, almost psychopathically selfish, using people as she sees fit.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I really loved it. It made me feel young again.
    • 1/5
      Worst character i've ever read, selfish, self-centered, cheating liars, who have no regard for other people's feelings, I don't even know how I've finished this, hated them from start to end.
      But at least the narration was great.
    • 4/5
      It made me cry✌?✌? love that for me?? thats it

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Honest, at times brutal and beautiful book. I love Sally Rooney's writing so much. She has a knack of skimming the surface and diving deeply with admiral grace.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Can’t get past chapter 5 .. could not relate to the characters at all.. they seem so one dimensional and narcissistic . Narration is good though

      1 person found this helpful

    • 2/5
      I was expecting more from this book but it’s not up to the mark ..

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I loved everything about this book! The narrator was fantastic!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      I fail to see how this book has glowing reviews. I found it a tepid read with very unlikable characters and dialogue that made me feel depressed listening to it. At 16% I just cannot waste anymore time on these characters.... Nope, not happening.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I haven't read anything that has resonated so much with my deepest emotions and hidden feelings, that we tend to just sit with but never let out. I am grateful for this book. A masterpiece! Thank you for this.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 2/5
      Frances is a college student/aspiring writer, who performs spoken-word poetry with her former lover, Bobbi. Melissa, a journalist spots their potential and welcomes them into her life. Frances is drawn to Nick (Melissa's husband) and has an affair with him which leads to uncomfortable situations and confrontations with Bobbi, Melissa, as well as their friends and family.

      My top three thoughts on ‘Conversation with Friends’:
      1. This book was VERY distracting because for some reason it has quite a few grammatical errors and more importantly, it didn’t use quotation marks for dialogues and conversations. Despite painfully reading through the conversations and dialogues between the characters, I couldn’t connect with any of them because I kept trying to figure out what are the character’s inner thoughts and which parts are an actual conversation.
      2. The protagonist, Frances is a damaged individual who comes from a complicated background and believes her self-worth is zero. I feel that for a pessimistic character like Frances, using a first person narrative made it very hard to like her or even empathize with her (which I guess is the point). Her poor choices, twisted comments and toxic thoughts made me want to step away from the book frequently. It just got too intense and overwhelming for me to be immersed in so much selfishness and negativity.
      3. Frances and Bobbi despise people with money and don’t want it to be the motivating factor in making them lead conventional lives. Yet, it doesn’t stop the both of them to live rent free as 21 year olds, under the protection and shelter of their respective parents' houses. They also had their entire education paid for and refuse to get proper jobs (Frances doesn’t even WANT to work) to support themselves, therefore mooching off their parents as adults. @bookedin3 book review

      2 people found this helpful