The Idiot
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Publisher's Summary
A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself.
The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious meanings.
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With superlative emotional and intellectual sensitivity, mordant wit, and pitch-perfect style, Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood. Her prose is a rare and inimitable combination of tenderness and wisdom, its logic as natural and inscrutable as that of memory itself. The Idiot is a heroic yet self-effacing reckoning with the terror and joy of becoming a person in a world that is as intoxicating as it is disquieting. Batuman's fiction is unguarded against both life's affronts and its beauty - and has at its command the complete range of thinking and feeling that they entail.
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-21-17
Fascinating point of view
The author's voice and experiences are interestingly objective - intelligent, restrained and artifice- free. If you require a plot-driven story, this isn't the one for you. If, though, you'd like to get out of your head and into the author's, then dive on in!
14 people found this helpful
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- Lengthy
- 07-04-17
Disappointing narration
What disappointed you about The Idiot?
The narrator is the author and she should stick to writing. Her flat narration ruined the book for me. It was like someone telling jokes who ruins a good punch line every time.
What did you like best about this story?
I think if I read it that it would be funny. Half way through the book I decided to read it instead of listening to the rest.
Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Elif Batuman?
Anyone with more dramatic flair or sense of humor.
12 people found this helpful
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- Ian Jobling
- 05-19-17
Captures the strangeness of being
This account of a young woman's first year at Harvard and summer trip to Hungary captures the random directionlessness of life and of the mind and also the human foreignness to language. Batuman captures the feeling that words are incapable of describing our experience and that no one even begins to understand this problem. If you're looking for the kind of "twisty plot" that is so common these days, you will be disappointed. But if you are ready for a new dimension of existence to be revealed to you, this is the book.
9 people found this helpful
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- Brana Kosanic
- 08-03-19
The most boring read ever
Performance is below mind numbingly boring, this performer should be baned from reading aloud to others!
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- Jonathan
- 07-15-19
Banal in the Extreme
I kept waiting for something to happen. I knew it was written as a memoir of a year in the life of a Harvard teenager, but it sounds like it was written by a Harvard teenager. The treks through the parks and lakes are allegorical of nothing. The misunderstanding and discovery of language reveals nothing. A teenager struggled in her first year of adult life. She went on an adventure and struggled. She liked a boy and struggled. Just like everyone else.
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- Michael
- 05-15-17
Flawless
It's been a long time since I've enjoyed a book this much for language, thought and tone alone. Thanks, Elif Batuman.
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-28-18
The perfect book
I thought reading “The Idiot” was the best things could get, but then I found “The Possessed”. After reading “The Possessed” I was relatively sure I had found the closest I could get to a soul in novel form. But then I heard Elif read her own words out loud and I knew I was wrong. If you don’t download this book you’re an idiot.
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- Susan Reiser
- 02-21-18
Narration awful. Dull, no emotion!
May be better to read. The narrator ruined it. Also, no plot. Read like a Junior High diary. Sorry to be so harsh but bad listen!!
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- DB
- 07-22-17
Painful to get through
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Someone with a less flat presentation
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You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
No redeeming qualities. I read it for a book club but it was painful to get through. Nothing happens, none of the characters are likeable or even interesting. A privileged Harvard freshman's angst about an online romance. It was like a bad romance novel. I guess we were supposed to feel something for her but if this is her tragedy or growth trajectory I certainly am not interested in hearing more.
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- Amy Forslund-Amos
- 06-30-17
No point: Long, poorly narrated, properly written
Kept waiting for something to happen, it never did. Book about self discovery typically come to some sort of conclusion other than nothing. The author's narration was a poor choice,void of expressing emotion. So bland, I actually rechecked the details to determine if this was a book about an autistic young adult trying to adapt to her world. The only positives: No gratuitous sex, violence, or language, and great to fall asleep to.
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