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A wonderful story filled with excitement and joy!

Revisado: 06-02-22

I loved both the narration and the Story itself. It was another wonderful adventure for the Boxcar Children.

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Frustratingly one dimensional

Revisado: 05-20-19

Stopped listening after 10 hours when I realized all the characters would be one dimensional and the story would just keep descending into the grotesque. The author seems to have been more interested in presenting a steady string of awfulness than telling a real human story with goodness and evil in tension. The worst of human history has been mashed up in a long, predictably terrible saga, and I stopped when I realized there would be no redemption, no rewarded courage, no interest in including any of the flawed but noble men and women who also existed in this era and battled against all the circumstances depicted. To read this is to step into a fictional United States that didn’t possess a single white person of moral decency or courage in the mid-20th century, when all black citizens were also merely helpless victims.

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Thrilling, touching, inspiring, and enlightening

Revisado: 01-28-19

Haven’t enjoyed an audiobook so much since the Boys in the Boat. I learned so much about a place I revere, and the forces that threaten it, even as I was swept along with the story of the men who chased a record I would never have even dreamed of.

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Funny and fascinating

Revisado: 01-12-17

What made the experience of listening to Born a Crime the most enjoyable?

I love hearing authors read their own work. Trevor Noah, a man who talks for a living, is a great narrator. The stories he tells are wonderful, funny and heartfelt in equal measure. And to hear them told in his own voice just adds to the excellent material. This is a book that I would highly recommend in the audio version.

What about Trevor Noah’s performance did you like?

He has an impeccable sense of comedic timing. But above all I love the range of his narration. He tells jokes, but he also tells powerful, poignant stories and does so with candor and grace. Trevor Noah is the best kind of comic-- one who sees the seriousness behind his comedy, and uses the two in tandem to enrich our understanding of the world.

Any additional comments?

Born a Crime is a must-listen!

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