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Ayoade on Ayoade

By: Richard Ayoade
Narrated by: Richard Ayoade
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About this listen

In this book, Richard Ayoade - actor, writer, director, and amateur dentist - reflects on his cinematic legacy as only he can: in conversation with himself. Over 10 brilliantly insightful and often erotic interviews, Ayoade examines Ayoade fully and without mercy, leading a breathless investigation into this once-in-a-generation visionary. They have called their book Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey. Take the journey, and your life will never be the same again.

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hilarious narrative. brilliant cinematic touch. I don't even know what genre this is but it's amazing. special thanks for footnotes!

brilliant!

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Ayoade is so consistently self effacing it's very hard to tell whether his writing is stupid or sardonic and I get the impression that's exactly what he is hoping people might say. Either way he seems quite pleased with himself, which isn't a criticism, I'd be pleased with myself if I could read my own writing and sound as though I understood it. You should listen to this audiobook if you like whacky things that are definitely funny and might also be clever. I never really understand if the joke is entirely on me, the listener, but I suppose that's my own fault for being a bit dim.

very good

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This would be funny if it was shorter, but, after a while, once you get the whole idea it just repeats in the same way. Like the guy but too much of this is like eating too much cheese, great at first, then gets a bit samey and ultimately you start wondering why you bought so much cheese. Not that this book is cheesy. But he should make another film - his other two where good.

Okay so I get it and I know it's ironic and stuff

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Mostly an enjoyably amusing listen. Occasionally laugh out loud funny, but a few chapters near the end of the book "proper", and at the beginning of the epilogues, were hard going, and better suited to the physical version. Which is quite ironic, for reasons that will become clear as you listen.

A Curate's Egg

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Ayoade.

I wish I could write a book not quite as good as this, because it would be great to have accomplished something on as high a level as this book... but not quite as good because I like this book so much I wouldn't want to better it.
Maybe Alexander the Great wouldn't weep because there was no more land to conquer if he had just conquered a little bit less.

Ayoade.

Double and Squeak -- An Acceptable Piece of Art

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