I mean, I Googled it, and it’s a thing, but Harry feels we should know that he’s done this on enough occasions that he can’t remember if he drank out of a prosthetic leg on a particular evening while visiting the South Pole? I don’t know, Harry. But I do question why he chooses to tell us that he’s drunk alcoholic beverages out of friends’ prosthetic legs multiple times. Does he call himself Prince Harry when he signs up for a SoulCycle class? It’s probably unfair to wonder if, IRL, Harry actually uses the expressions leitmotif and Kafkaesque and emotional cul-de-sac. Time and again, as I zipped through it, I’d text friends saying “I hate Harry.” But I couldn’t stop, because Spare is a strange, contemporary artifact in the game of What Was This Person Thinking? Just him announcing the title of his book and his name-“by Prince Harry”-is weird. Listening to this book was a special form of insufferable torture. Speed I listened: Mostly 1.75x, but 1.5x for the stuff about his frostbitten penis The goal of this column is to try to send you on your way each month with a few of them. I find that the best audiobooks are experiences in themselves. Sometimes an audiobook doesn’t work because of the narrator other times the book is overcomplicated and confusing. Over the years, I’ve learned that some books make satisfying listens and some just don’t. If I play Candy Crush while I’m listening to Pamela Anderson’s memoir, I’m accomplishing something, even if that accomplishment is absorbing Pamela Anderson’s memoir. You can go for a walk, drive to Florida, do laundry, put together a jigsaw puzzle, lie on your bed in complete and total despair. You can do lots of other things, all while enjoying one of the best books of the year. One of the great things about listening to audiobooks is you can. People will occasionally tell me they think listening to an audiobook is “cheating.” Cheating on what? Physical books? One of the great things about reading is you can’t do anything else while you’re reading.
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