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Ayoade on Top
- Narrated by: Richard Ayoade
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
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Summary
At last, the definitive audiobook about perhaps the best cabin crew dramedy ever filmed: View from the Top starring Gwyneth Paltrow.
In Ayoade on Top, Richard Ayoade, perhaps one of the most 'insubstantial' people of our age, takes us on a journey from Peckham to Paris by way of Nevada and other places we don't care about. It's a journey deep within, in a way that's respectful and non-invasive; a journey for which we will all pay a heavy price, even if you've waited for the smaller paperback edition.
Ayoade argues for the canonisation of this brutal masterpiece, a film that celebrates capitalism in all its victimless glory; one we might imagine Donald Trump himself half-watching on his private jet's gold-plated flat screen while his other puffy eye scans the cabin for fresh, young prey.
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- Lisa
- 10-09-19
You don’t need to have watched the film
Brilliant, loved it , was reluctant as I do t know the film but it doesn’t matter, I know all about it now.
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- ellefinn2308
- 07-09-19
Wonderfully unique, just like its author/narrator
I love this so much. Ostensibly a scholarly critique of the 2003 Gwyneth Paltrow film A View from the Top, it's actually so much more, touching on many and diverse subjects such as hair height and Happy Eaters. It's masterfully read by the sublime Mr Ayoade and be warned if you are listening to this in a public place - you WILL laugh out loud. A lot.
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- Alison Smith
- 06-09-19
Brilliantly read and performed
This quirky, earnest and hilarious study of the film "View from the Top" is amazing, as only Richard Ayoade could present. Pleasure to see him interviewed by Adam Buxton at The RFH last night (5.09.19) to launch it and I binge-listened to it in one day! It's not a Tolstoy, as he points out! Recommended to anyone who loves bantering during a sub-standard film and who'd love to be nearly as funny as Richard.
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- G Spicer
- 07-10-19
Perfect bedtime listening
Admittedly listened to this more times than necessary but Ayoade's voice has a way of lulling you to sleep. I've come to rely on this as a means of nodding off. Somehow Ayoade is the only person who could pull off a book all about a film no one has heard of and at the same time interweave hilarious and adorable anecdotes of his childhood.
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- Benjamin Stephen Davies
- 31-12-19
Very funny
Got to be honest, I had my doubts leading up to this... but this is one of the funniest audiobooks I’ve ever listed to.
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- Amazon Customer
- 24-09-19
Perplexing
I would pay to hear this author read a shopping list. At times that wasn't far away from my experience of listening to this book. The plot of an obscure Gwyneth Paltrow film acts as a strange framing device for snatches of autobiography and reflections on the world. I nearly choked with laughter on more than one occasion, but also frequently found myself losing the thread of what was going on. I might watch the film before trying again (although it sounds terrible).
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- Miss L E Turvey
- 17-09-19
and so I watched View from the top
Richard reading this made it for me. Very funny in places and the digressions into his own life stories are fab. His observations on GP's career along the way are also hilarious, if cutting. Hadn't seen the film, but he makes you want to, and yep, it's really bad.
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- jeremy John
- 10-09-19
up lifting , nice one Top one
I haven't laughed out loud for time and it tickled every funny box. Brilliant & original
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- Imspartacus
- 20-05-20
Drivel
Worst audio book I’ve wasted time on and I like him normally !
Don’t waste your credits or time
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- Luke Fisher
- 06-12-19
Ayoade on top form
Simply put this is a marvellous book. It is so rare to find something that actually makes you laugh out loud. It's witty, clever, charming, and although I'm sure is a great paper read, Richard Ayoade's narration upgrades it to truly first class.
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