M.J. Franklin
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3,273 appearances
20 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2d ago
M.J. Franklin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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When you hear those words, do you like get your guard up or are you intrigued?
I'm both at the same time.
That is actually perfect because this book plays with pairs and doubles and doppelgangers who all riff off of each other and all that stuff.
This is As If by Isabel Weidner.
It's about two strangers, each struggling in their lives for their own reasons, who discover that they're doppelgangers and then switch lives for better or for worse.
That's the easy setup, and already we're like, we have the surreal conceit of the doppelgangers.
Overall, though, it's very trippy because you can tell this is just a writer having fun inventing.
For instance, at the core of the book is a show called Nightmare.
People live, people die, people live as if they were already dead.
Wherein a detective, A. Smith, spelled S-M-Y-T-H-E, is hired as a detective to watch another man, B. Smith, spelled S-M-I-T-H, but B. Smith is hired to watch A. Smith, and then there is C. Schmidt, who is A. Smith's partner, and then B. Smith has an estranged wife named D. Smith...
Am I getting too clever vibes here?
Like, convince me I'm not.
So, no, it's not too clever by half.
That is always... I always get nervous about that.
It's really inventive and fun.
It is a little clever, but not too clever.
Got it.
And I think that is actually Weidner's strength.
They're an author I think everybody needs to know.
They're this up-and-coming, surrealist, Kafkaesque, it's used to describe them often...
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