2 Book Collection Set: Conversations with Friends, Normal People

by Sally Rooney

Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched Collectively:

Sally Rooney 2 Books Collection Set:

Conversations with Friends:
Frances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed and observant. A student in Dublin and an aspiring writer, at night she performs spoken word with her best friend Bobbi, who used to be her girlfriend. When they are interviewed and then befriended by Melissa, a well-known journalist who is married to Nick, an actor, they enter a world of beautiful houses, raucous dinner parties and holidays in Provence, beginning a complex ménage-à-quatre.

Normal People:
Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in the west of Ireland, but the similarities end there. In school, Connell is popular and well-liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation - awkward but electrifying - something life-changing begins.Normal People is a story of mutual fascination, friendship and love. It takes us from that first conversation to the years beyond, in the company of two people who try to stay apart but find they can't.

Genres: Fiction

Paperback

First published January 1, 2022

About the author

Sally Rooney was born in 1991 and lives in Dublin, where she graduated from Trinity College. Her work has appeared in Granta, The Dublin Review, The White Review, The Stinging Fly, and the Winter Pages anthology.

Reviews

[Lucy Mckenzie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Found myself being full on obsessed with normal people and felt so attached to their relationship as it was portrayed so realistically

Conversations with friends - Also a very strong book but didn't grab me as much as normal people

[Annie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Re-read this summer. Conversations with Friends resonates with me just as much as it did three years ago.

[Emma Hopper · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed most of the normal people book, not read the other one, and it was interesting to follow the characters and what they went through and how their relationship grew. Slightly disappointing at the end, but maybe that's the romantic in me

[Dorien Desmedt · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was so in love with the book! I had a hard time putting the book down, so many details have been written. I loved it!

[Rose McLish · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved normal people but I didn’t love conversations with friends as much

[Sotiria Lazaridou · Rating 1 out of 5]

I didn't like these books at all...🥲

[Margit · Rating 5 out of 5]

Was obsessed from the first page. Such a sweet but also heartbreaking story.

[Rajshree Ojha]

I like her take on relationships. The new millennial characters and their dealing with loneliness, love , life make books page turners.

[Lokendra Meena · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book disappointed me a lot....................

"Don't judge a book by its cover"
This quote suits this book...........

when I picked this book and saw the title of this book, then what I thought that it is a non-fiction book related to some mental health issues.............. but what I got after reading some chapters was that this book is based on two schoolmates life, CONNELL, and MARIANNE, both were in the same school and also get admission in the same college in different streams.
Connell is an extrovert, intelligent, and the handsome good-looking guy in school, meanwhile, Marrianne was an introvert, shy, and boring girl and always buys with reading novels. She has no friends in school.

Connell and Marianne became friends, Connell's mother was a housekeeper in Marianne's house, Marianne likes Connell and the journey starts with a proposal by Marianne to Connell. They mingle with each other and broke up, after some time they again hook up and this story continues with the same repetitive blurb...........

"A person is very important in our life, whoever it may be."

To describe this one line/quote, the author writes a whole novel, just for one line...

What I got after wasting my full one day is that somewhere this is an overrated book. No connection between chapters and the end of the story is quite good..............

Don't go for this book...........................

thanks

[Nischita · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read Normal People last year, and I marked it separately I believe, but this specific edition is the one that I read (I got them as a pair). After reading NP, I believed that I was just one of those readers that was incompatible with Sally Rooney's writing, because I didn't really get it. I thought she was a great writer, it just wasn't for me, but reading Conversations with Friends converted me. I understand it now, I thoroughly enjoyed this book and deeply related with the characters involved. I've been trying to get into annotating my books and as of now am just tabbing parts with different colored tabs signifying different things, and I have a green tab designated to notating things I relate to, and I've used it so much in this book. I'm glad that I didn't let my opinion of NP keep me from reading this because I truly believe it would have been a loss if I hadn't. My only complaint is with the ending of CWF, I felt like it erased all of the progress that Frances and Nick had made on their own, but then again I guess that the way it ended was a testament to each of their characters, so maybe there is significance in it yet.

[Anthony · Rating 2 out of 5]

Sally Rooney (2019) NORMAL PEOPLE
London. Faber & Faber

⭐️⭐️ 2 out of 5 stars

The sleeve reads, "Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in the west of Ireland, but the similarities end there. In school, Connell is popular and well-liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation - awkward but electrifying - something life-changing begins. Normal People is a story of mutual fascination, friendship and love. It takes us from that first conversation to the years beyond, in the company of two people who try to stay apart but find they can't."
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Have seen a lot of hype over this one, so come finishing this book I'm a little bemused by my general feeling of meh it left me with tbh.
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[Vega Royer · Rating 2 out of 5]

wish i could rate this 2.5 stars. not the worst but definitely not the best. i read normal people and liked it much better, this one does not reach its level. characters are kind of horrible, maybe the fact that they are so fkin straight played in their disgrace…….especially nick. kinda hate the whole oxford-ish atmosphere, stop trying to include “smart” convos in the middle of nowhere that is just pretentious and unrelatable, no i don’t spend my days debating anarchist theories and the israel palestine conflict

[Liz · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think I really enjoyed the way that even when I disliked certain characters at the start, such as Melissa, the author developed their characters to the point where I was empathizing for them all in different ways. At times the book had me routing for Nick and Frances, and at other times I was questioning their actions, which gave the book a thrilling and addictive quality. I also just adore Bobby, as the book went on I started to admire and adore her and her strong sense of justice, in the way that Frances observed other people’s admiration for Bobby.

[Tara Blais Davison · Rating 4 out of 5]

4/5 I reread these two books again and I want to increase my rating of Normal People. Paying closer attention than the details, I appreciate all the nuances as well as the facts that I perhaps overlooked when I first read both books. Interestingly, reading versus listening to audiobooks seems more drought for me. This second “reread” of Normal People, via audiobook, has allowed me to enjoy and contemplate this book at a different level. Maybe there is something to having ADHD that recommends audiobooks over printed word.

[Jane Mess · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read both of those books after watching and loving the tv show for normal people. I have to say both of them were absolutely amazing the way sally rooney writes captivated me from page one and I read both of them way faster then I would read any other book simply because I couldn’t put ghem away once I started reading. Normal people quickly made its way up my favourite list and by the end of it claimed its well deserved first spot!

[Flannery Dahlberg · Rating 2 out of 5]

Normal People was alright and I enjoyed reading it but I really hated conversations with friends. The main character was so annoying and not in a antihero way, just in a confusing, frustrating and intolerable way. The writing itself is also pretty bad, and the political conversations sprinkled throughout the book were random and out of place (and out of touch).

[Gloria burrough · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just finished rereading normal people and didn’t even realize it was coming to an end. Could watch them bounce off each other forever even if they are being stupid. The way she writes people and relationships is so beautiful, I would just read it off my phone any lull I had. Anything she writes I will of course read

[Annisaa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Storyline is okay, suitable for light reading. Not a fan of the author's way of writing. However, the character arc is nice and pleasing hence the high rating. Marianne just remind me of myself and I can relate to her in every sense.

[Laura Schultz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Both of these felt like the smarter, clever, adult version of teen fiction. Easy to read, couldn't put it down. Love love love!

[Gan Da · Rating 5 out of 5]

Normal characters, normal storyline, normal words, but strangely relatable.

[Laine Berina · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very nice book for holidays. About relationship between friends.

[Cozyfresh · Rating 4 out of 5]

Back to read the normal after watching Normal People. A bit sad but also warm story.

[Kajfrances · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed reading this book. In a way it is so recognisable. Just the way thing happen by the choices you make, sound logical but the way this book describes it is beautiful.

[Sharon Paton · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really enjoyed Normal People took me straight back to bring a teenager related to the story very much I haven't read conversation with friends

[Elly Veale · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fell in love with both books, very emotional and such an accurate heartfelt emotional rollercoaster

[Susan Davidson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Slow burner

[Zoe Jin · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have got different experience about human relationship from reading this two books.

[Cassandra Warshowsky · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not impressive.

[Lauren Stocks · Rating 4 out of 5]

Brilliant, depressing

[Max Wolfe · Rating 4 out of 5]

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