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Ramble Book
- Musings on Childhood, Friendship, Family and 80s Pop Culture
- Narrated by: Adam Buxton
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
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Ramble Book
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Publisher's Summary
Includes an exclusive bonus podcast with Joe Cornish.
The long-awaited, rambling, tender and very funny memoir from Adam Buxton.
Ramble
/ˈramb(ə)l/
Verb
1. walk for pleasure in the countryside.
‘Dr Buckles and Rosie the dog love rambling in the countryside.’
2. talk or write at length in a confused or inconsequential way.
‘Adam rambles on about lots of consequential, compelling and personal matters in his tender, insightful, hilarious and totally unconfused memoir, Ramble Book.’
Ramble Book is about parenthood, boarding-school trauma, arguing with your partner, bad parties, confrontations on trains, friendship, wanting to fit in, growing up in the '80s, dead dads, teenage sexual anxiety, failed artistic endeavours, being a David Bowie fan and how everything you read, watch and listen to as a child forms a part of the adult you become.
It’s also an audiobook about the joys of going off topic and letting your mind wander.
And it’s about a short, hairy, frequently confused man called Adam Buxton.
What the critics say
"I recommend Ramble Book. There are wonderful, melancholy passages about his father, and Bowie, and 80s nostalgia, perfect for those of us who get teary-eyed remembering the first time we heard Dexys Midnight Runners or whatever. He writes jingles for the start of each chapter. He takes us on lovely, audio-only tangents. There used to be a solemnity to audiobook recording. Diverging from the set text was considered heretical. Adam’s book is full of the joys of doing the opposite.’ (Jon Ronson)
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- Alan
- 2021-01-24
Valuable, honest, fun and funny
A good book, both funny and poignant. Life lessons and humour wrapped up in interesting appealing observations about a life, many of them universal. Very glad I listened.
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- Christopher M.
- 2021-01-31
Loved it, just loved it
I'm a fan of the podcast already but I have to say that I think Adam is at his best here. The story itself is very moving but also hilarious with me just roaring out loud much to the surprise of my family. Of all the audible credit's I've spent, this has certainly been one of the best pseudo currency unit's I've spent.
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- Kate
- 2020-12-30
Loved it
I got so much from this book. I absolutely loved it - poignant, moving, and funny.
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