Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body
Written by Sara Pascoe
Narrated by Sara Pascoe
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
Take a funny and illuminating tour of the female body with award-winning comedian Sara Pascoe.
Women have so much going on, what with boobs and jealousy and menstruating and broodiness and sex and infidelity and pubes and wombs and jobs and memories and emotions and the past and the future and themselves and each other.
Here's a book that deals with all of it. Sara Pascoe has joked about femininity and sexuality on stage and screen, but now she has a book to talk about it all for a bit longer. Animal combines autobiography and evolutionary history to create a funny, fascinating insight into the forces that mould and affect modern women.
Read for you by the author, Animal is entertaining and informative, personal and universal – silly about lots of things and serious about some. It's a laugh-out-loud investigation to help us understand and forgive our animal urges and insecurities.
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Reviews for Animal
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Ich kann dieses Buch nicht genug loben. Es ist engagiert, lustig, persönlich, kurzweilig und ernsthaft und es schildert die Welt (bzw. einen Teil davon) aus der Sicht von Frauen. Jeder sollte es hören, aber vor allem junge Menschen. Pascoe liest selbst, was das Hörvergnügen steigert, denn sie kann als Comedienne natürlich sehr gut sprechen.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5One of the few audiobooks I’ve listened straight through. Poignant, heartbreaking in places, enraging, educational, fascinating but most of all a warm humorous exploration of femaleness in the second decade of the 21st century. Certainly I cannot agree with everything Sara says but I respect the perspective she presents and concur with her observations about the befuddling cruel disdain women have been held in since the beginning of recorded history, at the least.
Should be required reading (listening) in every health, psychology and/or sociology course. Should be a mandatory text in the education of boys and young men. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I must confess I originally purchased this through Audible and returned it was it wasn’t what I was expecting. I knew Sara Pascoe as a comedian (although not very well) and thought this was going to be a humorous book. However…I listened to her second book Sex Money Power and loved it so much I started Animal again. There is humour in it, but it’s not a funny book. It’s a thoroughly enjoyable, informative, emotion-inducing and thought-provoking listen.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Hi Pascoe can you please quit comedy to read me books? Thanks. Listened to Sex, Power, Money and immediately had to listen to Animals after, such is the accessible and informative nature of Pascoe’s writing. I’d recommended this book to anyone and frequently do.