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4.51 AVERAGE
4.51 AVERAGE
Pathos + bathos = brilliance. STRONGLY recommend the audiobook which Hannah narrates herself in her inimitable delivery. I appreciated all 15 hours with her, laughing and understanding and thinking with her.
Having watched and really appreciated the divergent approach to traditional comedy that "Nanette" provided I really enjoyed listening to this memoir and learning more about Hannah Gadsby's upbringing and path to performing comedy.
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Wow. Well done. She ties her experiences into the timeline of her country's LGBT rights history and shines light on mental illness. That would be worth the read alone, but oh yeah she got the book deal because she has an incredibly popular Netflix special. So glad your voice is being amplified.
The Nanette special is better than this book, but I enjoyed learning more about Gadsby and her life.
This was stunning and brilliant, but I would struggle to ever recommend it. The person would have to have first watched Nanette and then, being fully aware of THAT gut-punch, knowing it will describe that - for hours.
CW that there are descriptions of: homophobia, sexism, ASD and other neurodivergent discrimination, rape, violence, pedophilia and other child abuses, body shaming/fatphobia, panic attacks, suicide, the struggles and positive crutches of substances (drugs, alcohol, etc), and still I'm definitely missing something in there. I knew all this, as she wrote, "I'm triggering all the warnings," still it doesn't encompass the experience that is This Book.
Her story is extremely difficult to hear, yet I couldn't stop listening. It was also unexpectedly relatable. I can't recommend that which might cause someone to relive a trauma, but I don't want it swept under the rug or avoided out of fear either. Hannah Gadsby says it best in that only after acknowledging the truth of trauma can it be put it into words. And when there are no words, there is no sharing. And when there is no sharing, you can’t find your way back to safety.
So it *really* might not be right for you, but I think that the world might be a better place if enough people have the courage to sit with Hannah in this, and know that you (or someone in your life that you love) are not alone. Willful ignorance invites shaming. And shame is the breeding ground for self-harm, assault, suicide, and more.
CW that there are descriptions of: homophobia, sexism, ASD and other neurodivergent discrimination, rape, violence, pedophilia and other child abuses, body shaming/fatphobia, panic attacks, suicide, the struggles and positive crutches of substances (drugs, alcohol, etc), and still I'm definitely missing something in there. I knew all this, as she wrote, "I'm triggering all the warnings," still it doesn't encompass the experience that is This Book.
Her story is extremely difficult to hear, yet I couldn't stop listening. It was also unexpectedly relatable. I can't recommend that which might cause someone to relive a trauma, but I don't want it swept under the rug or avoided out of fear either. Hannah Gadsby says it best in that only after acknowledging the truth of trauma can it be put it into words. And when there are no words, there is no sharing. And when there is no sharing, you can’t find your way back to safety.
So it *really* might not be right for you, but I think that the world might be a better place if enough people have the courage to sit with Hannah in this, and know that you (or someone in your life that you love) are not alone. Willful ignorance invites shaming. And shame is the breeding ground for self-harm, assault, suicide, and more.
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
emotional
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I thought watching Gadsby’s special by the same name would spoil the book. Never been happier to be wrong! Gadsby has a true gift for a new type of queer storytelling disguised as simple comedy.