
The Body Artist
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Narrated by:
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Laurie Anderson
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By:
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Don DeLillo
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Worth it just to hear Laurie Anderson's narration!
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DeLillo's usual excellence
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Laurie Anderson's narration is warm and deliberately paced. It was well suited for the way the story is told.
In short, it's about a woman who loses her husband to suicide and a "being" who has been in the house where she lives appearing to her shortly after. What makes me want to listen to this again is that, now that I have a full understanding of what a Body Artist is and does, it leaves me to wonder if the apparition was real or not. The book makes no effort to answer either way, which I loved.
What I thought was going to be tedious wound up being a pleasant surprise and I'm glad I stuck with it. I'll be looking for more of the author and the narrator in future.
Worth Listening to Multiple Times
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About the narration: Laurie Anderson is perfect for this book in every way, aurally and temperamentally. I could listen to her tell stories for days on end. Audio quality excellent, too.
Excellent in every way
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What three words best describe Laurie Anderson’s voice?
I love her own work and saw her many years ago in a brilliant concert. Unfortunately, her voice strikes me as ineffectively "quiet" for these purposes. I listened while I rode in a car, and it seemed much of her inflection got drowned out by road noise. She's a great performer and a major artist in her own right, but I don't think her voice is quite pitched for the work of narration.Any additional comments?
I'm a big DeLillo fan, but this turned out to be very difficult to follow as an audiobook. It's a story where the ground is constantly shifting, where we can't be certain of many of the things we early on take for granted. I think it would be confusing to read even as a printed book, but that confusion is amplified through the listening experience.The central figure experiences a deep loss and, at least I read it, she projects that loss onto a character who suddenly seems to occupy her house. I read that character as an image of her grief and, as such, that central metaphor is beautiful and powerful. The book doesn't settle there, though, and, much as it pains me to say of DeLillo, this one doesn't quite find its core argument. (I recently read Point Omega as well, and I found that a much better work.)
Powerful and Intense, but Hard to Follow
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Amazing in every way
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My favorite book
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The style is similar to parts of Delillo's major work, 'Underworld', and the effect is almost more of a meditation or tone poem than a story.
Sort of a Tone Poem of a Book
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Good Story but So-so Reading
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DeLillo Disappointment
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