Listen free for 30 days
Listen with offer
-
We Learn Nothing
- Essays
- Narrated by: Tim Kreider
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to wishlist failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£0.00 for first 30 days
We Learn Nothing
Buy Now for £14.99
No valid payment method on file.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Summary
In We Learn Nothing, satirical cartoonist Tim Kreider turns his funny, brutally honest eye to the dark truths of the human condition, asking big questions about human-sized problems: What if you survive a brush with death and it doesn't change you? Why do we fall in love with people we don't even like? How do you react when someone you've known for years unexpectedly changes genders?
With a perfect combination of humor and pathos, these essays leave us with newfound wisdom and a unique prism through which to examine our own chaotic journeys through life. These are the conversations you have only with best friends or total strangers, late at night over drinks, near closing time.
Listeners also enjoyed...
What listeners say about We Learn Nothing
Average customer ratingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars
-
Performance3 out of 5 stars
-
Story4 out of 5 stars
- Lean Rasmussen
- 11-05-15
insightfull
takes you places you did not expect and reinvigorate your perspective. at times a bit flat, but touches on things important
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance3 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- JB
- 30-06-16
You'll want to give this book to friends
What a wonderful book. Never before have I known a writer so perfectly capture what it means to be human, with all our weirdness, imperfections and beauty. It translates well to audiobook, although Tim's delivery may be a little dry and too-cool-for-school for some.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story4 out of 5 stars
- Placeholder
- 31-10-18
Naked masterpiece depicting human nature
This book is like the morning after you wake up in a hangover (of not being drink but being your naked self as a human). You see in the mirror and there you are vulnerable, guilty and sort of laughing at yourself. Narration by Tim makes it what is - The masterpiece.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story4 out of 5 stars
- Unclepigg
- 30-07-15
Thought provoking
Didn't really know east to expect from this book. It took a while for me to get into it, but then I started to enjoy the stories. Very funny, clever vocabulary, and very thought provoking.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
3 people found this helpful
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story3 out of 5 stars
- Judy Corstjens
- 05-12-16
Random but not lacking in charm
This is quite a strange book : I'm not quite sure why the author wrote it or I why I bought it. To read it is like sitting in a café with a witty and personable friend who is freely reminiscing about other friends and experiences he has had over his lifetime. If, like me, this sort of activity takes up rather less of your life that you would ideally like, listening to Tim Kreider is a pleasant substitute. Tim has some interesting things to talk about - being adopted and meeting his half sisters at age 40, having a close male friend who becomes a woman, being a life-long progressive in the USA - and he paints the feelings he experienced and then analyses them with wit and insight. He has a great turn of phrase at times 'I felt the opposite of heart-broken', and a balanced and intelligent outlook. I listened to the book while swimming, and would recommend it for a train journey as a light, companionable, quite brief listen.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Mr. S. B. D. Henderson
- 09-04-15
Better than Bukowsky
I heard about this from the brilliant Tim Ferriss, was extremely entertained and impressed!
I was a fan of Bukowsky until I realised he essentially only had 1 story... Tim Kreider, while covering similar ground in a way, has many stories.
Highly recommended if you are an observer of life, a thinker and a doer!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Thom Hoffman
- 06-02-16
Sitting in on a great philosophical bar room chat
Sitting in on a great, philosophical, bar room chat, just the right number of drinks in.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Thomasson
- 20-11-21
LOVED IT!🤘😀
A brilliant collection of stories and anecdotes. well compiled and read. very entertaining! I really enjoyed it.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Mark
- 16-04-15
Beautiful, intelligent and insightful.
A privileged window into Tim's life. Highly recommended listening for anyone who thinks deeply about our human emotion and connection to our lives.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
Superb and insightful
Unsurpassed insight into the human condition communicated with wit and humility. A 'must listen' audiobook.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
1 person found this helpful