• Literally Show Me a Healthy Person

  • By: Darcie Wilder
  • Narrated by: Darcie Wilder
  • Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (74 ratings)

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Literally Show Me a Healthy Person

By: Darcie Wilder
Narrated by: Darcie Wilder
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Darcie Wilder's Literally Show Me a Healthy Person is a careful confession soaking in saltwater, a size B control top jet black pantyhose dragged over a skinned knee and slipped into unlaced doc martens. Blurring the lines of the written word, Literally Show Me a Healthy Person is a portrait of a young girl, or woman, or something; grappling with the immediate and seemingly endless urge to document and describe herself and the world around her. Dealing with the aftermath of her mother's death, her father's neglect, and the chaotic unspoken expectations around her, this novel is a beating heart at the intersection of literature, poetry, and the Internet. Darcie Wilder elevates and applies direct pressure, but the wound never stops bleeding.

©2017 Tyrant Books (P)2017 Talking Book

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Fuck yeah

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This is a really awesome book. I'm so fucking pumped to listen to it again.

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Darcie Wilder is brilliant!

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Enjoyed the hell out of this. Listened to this with my friends on a road trip and we were laughing the whole way through. Deadpan comedy at it's finest.

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Enchanting and hilarious

This is like stand up comedy. Also sad as hell. Entertaining all the way through. Very cool stuff.

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Experimental writing at its best!

Experimental and very much of its time circa 2017 when twitter was at its peak perhaps? And thus the writing is similar in that vein, in the form of tweets/thoughts/facts, auto fiction that slowly but surely becomes a modern day novel where one’s attention span is often limited to the present despite how the past keeps coming back and the future is far from enticing but coming regardless of how we feel about it.

I listened to the audiobook because the author is the narrator and it does wonders when trying to get a grasp in the beginning, of how this book should be read in a way… I was engaged and very much felt the funny moments as well as the moments that are all too real and felt if we’re only honest with ourselves and tell it as it is.

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Dude WTF

I was so confused the entire book and the tone of the person reading made it uncomfortable and hard to understand. 😬

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A Steam of Conscious

This book is so damn good. It's a chaotic stream of consciousness, hammered out on an iPhone and curated into a shameless confessional.

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I couldn't finish it

Honestly, I hope this young woman gets the love & help she needs. This just felt like I was reading someone's diary & I just want to refer them to a good therapist or support group.

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you might hate it

5 stars for being exactly what it wants to be. Starting over now. But this is fifteen words. Audible.

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I enjoyed this more than I thought I would.

def not for everyone. kind of like playing that game where you try to stab the spaces between your fingers with a knife. a bunch of tense thuds mixed with some really deep cuts.

I can relate to a lot of this. I have been attacked by a pet prairie dog. one Christmas morning when I was 22, my dad explained how to get cocaine out if the carpet using a vacuum hose with pantyhose on the end.

deadpan delivery. laughed uncomfortably. hurt a little. will listen again.

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Makes me feel kind of alive

This audiobook kind of takes me back to a place where I once existed mentally and physically in a way that’s hard to describe so I won’t. And for all the talk about sentimentality being detrimental, I just like it.

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