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- Narrated by: Richard Ayoade
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
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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.
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- Anamika Baruah
- 2020-04-17
Richard Ayoade is a global treasure
I was completely engrossed in a book about a movie I have never seen before and probably never will. This is roasting taken to a new level.Richard Ayoade is magic. That is all.
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- T. O. Price
- 2020-04-16
Hysterical
Ayoade's narration adds so much to an already hilarious book. His deadpan delivery and enunciation made me laugh out loud. I may even watch the film to revisit Ayoade's witty analysis. This was my first audiobook.
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- Barbara M Wilson
- 2020-03-28
Hilarious
An excellent book to read, I'm sure, but listening to Ayoade's voice delivering his own beautifully written satire is worth choosing the audiobook.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-08-24
Hilarious
If you are a fan of Travel Man and Gadget Man you will enjoy this book. Richard's weird and unique humour comes through in a big way.
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- vamosrafa07
- 2020-03-28
So so funny
So witty, so funny. I was laughing by myself driving to work. Definitely brightened my days! Highly recommend.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2023-09-14
A must for any Ayoade fan.
This has been on my list since viewing Ayoade promoting it on the Graham Norton show. I rarely laugh aloud when reading/listening/viewing, and this had me in stitches. Still not going to watch the movie is is based on though...
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- Anonymous User
- 2023-06-16
This book is so funny
ive made nearly all my friends listen to it. u can start it any where. so good
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- Rebecca King
- 2023-05-22
absolutely hilarious
loved this audiobook! it was hilarious start to finish, but carried itself with a deep intensity, asking all the important questions. I'm reflection of this seminal movie, I learned about myself, and thus, life.
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- Erin Way
- 2023-03-11
a must listen
This man. This story. No one could create or replicate anything like it. Richard Ayoade is one of a kind and a genius of dry, deadpan humour. Sometimes I laughed so loud I had to rewind to hear what I missed from my own laughter. My only dilemma now? Do I watch the movie or not?
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- Proof pudding
- 2023-01-12
Life changing - well not actually
Ayoade delights with his wonderful use of language, and hilarious sense of timing. Who wouldn’t love this?
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- Wesley
- 2019-12-13
Listened for an hour and a half, didn't laugh once
It's really strange, because I know this guy from clips on the Graham Norton show, and I find him very funny in that setting. In fact, the clip on Graham Norton of him plugging this book, is the very reason I decided to buy the audiobook. But....it's just dull. I get the premise is that it's a satirical take on those overly pretentious literary books, but it's just not very fun. The audiobook is only 4.5 hours, I listened to roughly 25% of it, and I did not laugh once. This is a cheeky take on "high brow" books, but, to quote Richard Ayoade in this very book. "I dislike people intentionally trying to insert cheekyness into things." The fact that he's doing it on purpose, doesn't make it funny. He rambles, and rambles, and brings up boring side topic after side topic, and then states that he's only discussed the first 60 seconds of the film. I genuinely groaned when he told me that the past 15 minutes of audiotime, where he prevaricates constantly, only covers the opening 60 seconds....and then starts the next paragraph with yet ANOTHER side story about a fictional birthday of his when he was like 6 years old.
I just, I don't care. It feels like he's just writing to hear himself write, and forgot that he's supposed to be discussing this film in a funny way.
I generally enjoy British humor, and one of my favorite authors (Terry Pratchett), was a master of dry, witty humor, that would have me rolling on the floor with the delivery of it. But this...this is just dull. Incredibly dull and pretentious. And the fact that it's pretentious by design, doesn't save it from being pretentious.
Again, not sure why the big disconnect, as I really find this guy funny in a live, social setting, where he has other people to react off of, and talk with, and generate organic humor based on a social setting. But, his prose writing? Just has none of that humor and wit.
I don't recommend this book, even with how short it is.
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- Michelle Sharpe
- 2019-11-22
If you love Ayoade, this is a must.
Listened to this in the span of a day. I’ve never seen View from the Top and I never plan to watch it. I feel like I understand it better than any other movie after listening to this book though, and I feel like I understand Richard Ayoade as well as myself.
Seriously though, I was laughing out loud at some of the parts in this book. The entire premise is ridiculous and entirely too much time, energy, research, and introspection went into writing a book about a truly mediocre 89 minute movie that no one remembers or saw at time of release. But that’s why we love Richard Ayoade and that’s why this audiobook is so great.
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- Rob
- 2019-09-26
Unbelievably witty
You don't need to have seen the movie. Highly recommend the audiobook, as Ayoade's delivery is key to the humor.
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- Piers Sharpe
- 2019-09-29
A toilet book about a film no one’s seen
I could’ve read Steinbeck, Hemingway or literally anything else I might discuss with friends over coffee, but instead I chose to spend 6 hours watching Top and listening to Ayoade’s critique of it (peppered with bits about him to make up the page count), acquiring a new set of references I won’t be able to exchange with anyone. Top’s bad but not in a ‘so bad it’s good’ way, more like ‘so mediocre I want it to end’, so quite an audacious move by the author to require such gruelling pre-work for a toilet book. Giving five stars to encourage more people to watch Top just in case it’s the next The Room and I’m too frustrated to realise it yet.
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- Client d'Amazon
- 2020-02-05
Uneven and overwrought
I like Richard Ayoade's TV work and delivery and so I was confident that I was going to enjoy this. I didn't. The concept of imputing non-existent complexity to and generally deconstructing a God-awful film would seem to be a premise full of comedic possibilities but it needs to be handled with a Morriso-Iannuccist-Marberian-Couganical sensibility for it to work, particularly over 4 hours 39 minutes. I hate to say it but this audiobook ends up being almost as difficult to listen to as the film is to watch (I watched the film in advance of listening to the book - it's truly diabolical and ripe for mockery). A lot of the writing in this audiobook seems overworked and way too wordy as if the guiding principle was a desire to impress rather than a desire to make laugh. This needed to be harshly edited. Not sure how it ended up so highly rated. Richard Ayoade is much better than this work.
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- Rocketboy1313
- 2020-01-29
I am a fan of Richard Ayoade as a TV Personality
When I heard about this book on the Graham Norton show it sounded like a lot of fun, using the loose outline of critiquing a forgotten sub-par movie as a means to tell humorous stories and asides. Joke's on me I guess.
I was an anticipating the film critique being a much smaller aspect of the book. That it was a sort of meta-joke, merely used as a way of moving between other articles. My anticipation was way off and I did not find that aspect of the book (the titular aspect of the book) all that funny. It got old quick and no matter how witty Richard Ayoade is (and he is) I could not give the tiniest shit about this movie and the jokes just started falling flat.
I am disappointed, but I guess I have no one to blame but myself. My expectations were skewed (and I am coming off a David Mitchell collection that I really enjoyed) this book was not in a position to impress me. I can't recommend it unless you are really interested in the idea of reading a scene-to-scene riffing of a movie you will likely never ever bother to see.
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- DangerKitten
- 2019-11-06
Only Richard Ayoade could pull this off...
I usually wouldn’t be compelled to buy a 4+ hour dissertation on Veiw from the Top and it’s personal cinematic and cultural/social significance...but Richard Ayoade...so I actually pre ordered this...and was more than pleasantly surprised. I remember the movie and it’s strange semi ensemble cast(lots of cameos and big names in bit parts) but never read so much into it now. Richard does a wonderful job of making you question both his taste level and your own while doing a great job at making his case and convincing you by the end that this movie truly was under-rated and you must watch it, while still taking the absolute piss out of the whole thing, (especially Gwyneth and Goop). mMaking you thankful that Richard is not political because the man could get some truly ridiculous things to pass if he put his mind to it. Brilliant, odd and thoroughly entertaining
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- Geoff in London
- 2020-02-15
Breathless admiration
In studious detail the author offers a focused analysis of the 2003 commercial flop "View from the Top". The comedic prose is so dense, I listened at 90%-speed so I could catch all the humour without having to rewind. This book treats the forgettable film, its cast, acting, plot, lighting, camera shots, with a kind of mockumentary seriousness as if this film were Very Important, and forms the basis of his view of life, existence, and the meaning of it all.
So why not? This author is prepared to go to extreme lengths (the length of this book, anyway) to perpetuate a farce, and once I'd trained my brain to listen closely enough, it was a jolly flight of satirical thrills.
We are never entirely sure what the author really thinks of Gwyneth Paltrow or her film; but he writes as though he thoroughly loves and admires her/it, and imbues his prose with absurdly high praise, attributing endless qualities to it all -- much as all fans do for all their obsessions. That's the adventure you'll go on. The book is self-referential in its comedic analysis, and so there's a slight nod to reality so you don't think Richard Ayoade is insane. Instead it's a fine work of modern wit.
You need not have seen the film ahead of time.
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- Sarie
- 2019-10-28
The Story Audio Books Were Made For
A reading of a book about a movie that no one has seen. Loved it.
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- Ana Lanari
- 2019-12-16
It's funny but I found it a bit much
it's very funny and vert well told but I noticed I ended spacing out a lot.
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