
How to Be Both
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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John Banks
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By:
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Ali Smith
How to Be Both is the dazzling new novel by Ali Smith. It is long-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2014. Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive, and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like nothing else. How to Be Both is a novel all about art’s versatility. Borrowing from painting’s fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's a fast-moving, genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths, and fictions. There’s a Renaissance artist of the 1460s. There’s the child of a child of the 1960s. Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real - and all life’s givens get given a second chance.
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Wow
So life like
Like life,
the unreality of it.
👍
Ali Wordsmith
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Impressive
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excellent writing
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There are many parallels one might draw in the two stories, but it is tiresome to contemplate what they are, and trying to ferret them out will make some reader/listeners quit this review, let alone the audiobook. Ali Smith is a good writer of interesting stories if one judges this audiobook as an example of her skill. However, to this reviewer, dissection of Smith’s intent spoils its entertainment value.
A SHATTERED LIFE
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Brilliant Writing
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Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
I never finish listening to, much less recommend, books in which the narrator has not taken the time to learn to pronounce foreign words correctly.Who would you have cast as narrator instead of John Banks?
Banks is a good reader/actor, but Like so many narrators, he didn't study the pronunciation of foreign words, in this case Italian. It really detracts from the listening experience to hear names of places and major characters mispronounced. What would it take for the producer to require that a narrator work with an accent and pronunciation coach for a day?Was How to Be Both worth the listening time?
See comments above.Any additional comments?
Please don't give prompts for reviews as if we were in grade school.Incompetent Foreign Pronunciation
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Two stories, two responses
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Read this one instead
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unresolved ending
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