Nick Dubrule

Enlightening and amusing at the same time

Revisado: 04-23-25

I found this super helpful in understanding Spinoza, when I've found other books abstruse and impenetrable. Of course the funny, if somewhat snarky, biographical aspect of the book helped draw me through -- and that was great

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A brilliant, nostrum-busting resetting of the historical record

Revisado: 12-30-23

Relentless in its detail, this shines a harshly bright light on a history that has always been complex, hard to grasp and frustratingly misrepresented. A must-read, even if tough to take and hear

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Enjoyable and unsettling at the same time

Revisado: 08-28-22

Fabulously nuanced reading of a well written and darkly telling tale. Buoyed along by wit and humor it gives you an unsettlingly visceral sense of the odds stacked against Black Americans.

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The Literary Equivalent of Beavis and Butthead

Revisado: 09-01-21

I really wanted to like this book. Sure I sniggered as I read it and that was slightly enjoyable. But it was such a snide post-modern kind of sniggering it left me feeling empty and slightly sick. It uses 9/11 to lead you on, making you wonder if the protagonist will redeem herself in the end. Of course she doesn't. And that's the self-congratulatory cleverness of it all. I kick myself for listening all the way through it.

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Disturbing, powerful and beautiful

Revisado: 09-27-20

Not for the faint of heart but so empathetically and poetically written that it opens your eyes to what you might otherwise turn away from. The author's reading enhances all that even more. I loved it, even if the ending doesn't quite pull together. Given her project though, I can't see how
she could have done it better. I loved it

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cleverly done but somehow empty

Revisado: 12-22-19

Sometimes the cleverness and intelligence of the writer overwhelms both the story and its meaning. Even though I laughed and oohed and ahhed at times with Susan Choi's writing she left me feeling disappointed.

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One of the best readings I have heard on Audible

Revisado: 10-21-19

Sean Crisden is amazing. He reads with heart and humor, creating a panoply of different nuancs in his voice to distinguish each of the characters he reads

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my least favorite of all Murakami's novels

Revisado: 04-28-19

kept asking myself if it was the translation or the performance but in the end the writing itself is weak - even squirm-inducingly so. A huge disappointment. I am a big fan of his other works.

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Is this what the Romance genre is like?

Revisado: 10-14-17

I really wanted to enjoy this but I struggled with what seemed to me like its slushy one-dimensionality. There were one or two narrative surprises, which was good, but in any of the difficult situations in which the characters found themselves, the details always seemed skipped over. The characters didn't develop or struggle. But then I started to wonder if the author wasn't just trying to work within in a genre where people are nice, rich and generous and the context is generally humorless. I guess I need more struggles, dilemmas and also laughs. Maybe that's just me

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Both Harrowing and Funny

Revisado: 08-31-17

Extremely rewarding and enlightening too. I not only learned about Apartheid and South Africa but surviving poverty and oppression with indomitable vigor and optimism. Truly inspiring

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