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Mimi

By: Lucy Ellmann
Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
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It's Christmas Eve in Manhattan. An eminent plastic surgeon slips on the ice, lands on his butt, and sprains his ankle. So far, so good. A woman such as he's never known yanks him to his feet and conjures the miracle of a taxi. Harrison recuperates with Franz Schubert, Bette Davis, and a foundling cat. Then it's back to rhinoplasties, liposuction, and the peccadilloes of his obnoxious colleagues. It is only when he collides again with that strangely helpful woman that things take a wild and revolutionary turn. Sparkling, polemical, irreverent, slippery, and sexy, Mimi is a love story, a call to arms, and Lucy Ellmann's most tender and dazzling audiobook. It's also the feminist novel of the century. (So far.)

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If this book wasn’t for you, who do you think might enjoy it more?

I do not know who would enjoy this, very weak story .I made mistake buying this. nothing really happened. The narrator was grating. Gave up after two hours listening.

just boring

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This was probably a better read, than an audio book. I agree with the other reviewers, the narrator made it very boring and monotone and the emphasis was wrong in parts - like he'd not realised the rest of the sentence was on the next line. Very irritating. This book was on our list for the book club and to save time, I thought I'd listen, rather than read it.
Wish I'd done it the other way round. Shame

Wish I'd read it, not listened to it

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If this book wasn’t for you, who do you think might enjoy it more?

Extremely boring and tedious. Really struggled to get through to the end. The narrative is dreadful with endless lists, characters you could not care less about and nothing really happens

Has Mimi put you off other books in this genre?

Yes

Would you be willing to try another one of Matthew Josdal’s performances?

No, his voice was annoying, though not helped by writing

What character would you cut from Mimi?

All the main ones

Truly dreadful

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What would have made Mimi better?

A storey! A character you could scrape up some interest in, or a narrator who didn't feel he had to put inflection into every other word. Perhaps if he had gotten it in the right place it would have helped - no, on second thoughts, nothing would have helped this book.

Has Mimi put you off other books in this genre?

No, I take each book as I find it but I will certainly read reveiws before purchasing another.

Would you be willing to try another one of Matthew Josdal’s performances?

NEVER! He has to have one of the most annoying voices on the planet.

What character would you cut from Mimi?

Bubbles the cat, to save her from having to listen to these characters.

Any additional comments?

Don't make my mistake and waste a credit on this dross!

Don't Do It, Screaming Drivel.

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I nearly didn’t listen to this because of the low ratings, and that would have been a huge mistake.

What makes this novel so fascinating is the perspective it chooses. Women’s experiences are explored through the eyes of a mildly misogynistic New York plastic surgeon. He’s not a villain and he’s not an advocate — which makes the whole thing far more nuanced and interesting than the usual extremes.

The structure is completely unique and the plot constantly surprised me. I genuinely never knew where it was going next. I found myself both laughing out loud and moved to tears. Several times I found myself shouting at the audiobook, begging it to answer questions I won’t spoil here. I could not stop listening.

The narration, which some reviewers criticised, worked very well for the character. My only minor quibble is that it occasionally had a slightly 1940s movie-style tone that felt a bit incongruent with the modern setting — but even that added to the strange charm of the whole thing.

One of the blurbs on the book calls it “the feminist novel of the century (so far)” and honestly…I’m inclined to agree.

If the low rating has put you off, ignore it. And if (as I suspect) the negative reviews are part of a patriarchal plot to stop people — particularly men — from reading this book… well, I sincerely hope it fails.

Don’t let the ratings fool you — this book is brilliant, it could change your life.

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