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Title: The Guts
Author: Roddy Doyle
Narrator: Laurence Kinlan
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-08-13
Publisher: Random House Audiobooks
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Jimmy Rabbitte is back. The man who invented the Commitments back in the eighties is now forty-seven, with a loving wife, four kids...and bowel cancer. He isn't dying, he thinks, but he might be. Jimmy still loves his music, and he still loves to hustle - his new thing is finding old bands and then finding the people who loved them enough to pay money for their resurrected singles and albums.
On his path through Dublin he meets two of the Commitments - Outspan, whose own illness is probably terminal, and Imelda Quirk, still as gorgeous as ever. He is reunited with his long-lost brother and learns to play the trumpet....
This warm, funny novel is about friendship and family, about facing death and opting for life. It climaxes in one of the great passages in Roddy Doyles fiction: four middle-aged men at Ireland's hottest rock festival watching Jimmys son Marvins band Moanin' at Midnight pretending to be Bulgarian and playing a song called 'I'm Going to Hell' that apparently hasn't been heard since 1932.... Why? Youll have to listen to The Guts to find out.
Members Reviews:
LOVED IT! The best take on cancer story
Roddy Doyle had me crying with laughter and teary from emotion.
I loved this read, the narrator was great. I could picture this like a movie in my mind.
Some parts where so funny I wouldn't recommend walking around listening, I think I looked like a mad lady while shopping when I couldn't stop laughing!
One of the best audiobooks I've listened to
Great performance of another excellent book by Roddy Doyle. If you're Irish you'll love it. And if you're not Irish, God help you.
A rollercoaster ride
Roddy Doyle brings together characters to create a thoroughly enjoyable, funny yet serious, emotional but not sentimental, journey through male mid-life and all that life brings with it. Wonderfully read by Laurence Kinlan. Recommended
Great Audiobook...Dublin in yer ear!
Great Audiobook...few niggles regarding the dads voice, the overuse of 'Grand" at times, and the theme of infidelity could have been explored more..maybe if the dad had of found out and offered an opinion... but overall best audiobook I've listened to yet possibly.
Brilliant!
This is a really funny tale on what is still something of a taboo subject. Although a little slow at times the banter is hilarious and brought to life by the excellent narration.
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Title: The Guts
Author: Roddy Doyle
Narrator: Laurence Kinlan
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-08-13
Publisher: Random House Audiobooks
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Jimmy Rabbitte is back. The man who invented the Commitments back in the eighties is now forty-seven, with a loving wife, four kids...and bowel cancer. He isn't dying, he thinks, but he might be. Jimmy still loves his music, and he still loves to hustle - his new thing is finding old bands and then finding the people who loved them enough to pay money for their resurrected singles and albums.
On his path through Dublin he meets two of the Commitments - Outspan, whose own illness is probably terminal, and Imelda Quirk, still as gorgeous as ever. He is reunited with his long-lost brother and learns to play the trumpet....
This warm, funny novel is about friendship and family, about facing death and opting for life. It climaxes in one of the great passages in Roddy Doyles fiction: four middle-aged men at Ireland's hottest rock festival watching Jimmys son Marvins band Moanin' at Midnight pretending to be Bulgarian and playing a song called 'I'm Going to Hell' that apparently hasn't been heard since 1932.... Why? Youll have to listen to The Guts to find out.
Members Reviews:
LOVED IT! The best take on cancer story
Roddy Doyle had me crying with laughter and teary from emotion.
I loved this read, the narrator was great. I could picture this like a movie in my mind.
Some parts where so funny I wouldn't recommend walking around listening, I think I looked like a mad lady while shopping when I couldn't stop laughing!
One of the best audiobooks I've listened to
Great performance of another excellent book by Roddy Doyle. If you're Irish you'll love it. And if you're not Irish, God help you.
A rollercoaster ride
Roddy Doyle brings together characters to create a thoroughly enjoyable, funny yet serious, emotional but not sentimental, journey through male mid-life and all that life brings with it. Wonderfully read by Laurence Kinlan. Recommended
Great Audiobook...Dublin in yer ear!
Great Audiobook...few niggles regarding the dads voice, the overuse of 'Grand" at times, and the theme of infidelity could have been explored more..maybe if the dad had of found out and offered an opinion... but overall best audiobook I've listened to yet possibly.
Brilliant!
This is a really funny tale on what is still something of a taboo subject. Although a little slow at times the banter is hilarious and brought to life by the excellent narration.