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Gorgeous but difficult

Revisado: 03-23-25

Maybe not the best for the audiobook listener who does other stuff simultaneously. It’s very information dense and you have to focus. Other than that, I’ve learned a ton and feel I’m a better person for having read it.

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Beautiful, detailed, long

Revisado: 04-09-24

As most of figes books, it is incredibly detailed. In this instance, maybe a little too much so.

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Beautifully personal

Revisado: 01-04-24

It’s beautifully narrated but 2-3 chapters too long. I didn’t care for the diary chapters at the end and would have preferred them to be interwoven with the story. And frankly, most of them to have been left on the editing floor. Until the last couple of chapters it was beautifully crafted, with a lot of space for the nuance this story needs. It was always very personal, while it was also clear that the writer understood the wider (geo)political context. Very impressive.

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Smart and beautiful

Revisado: 12-22-23

The story is great, so much more than it seems at first glance. I did not enjoy listening to the author’s voice and would have preferred a professional reader.

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Beautiful and profound

Revisado: 09-24-23

I’m a feminist classicist myself and it is a little disconcerting that so many of these retellings are being written now and not by me. But I loved this and will try to keep an abundance mindset.

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Learned a lot

Revisado: 08-06-23

I deducted one star from the narrator for bad pronunciation of unfamiliar words. When it’s read by a professional, those should be taken out. It’s just disrespectful to people who are not American, an affliction which the author tried so hard to avoid.

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Great

Revisado: 02-26-23

If I have one quibble, it’s that I would have preferred the audiobook to have been organized into smaller chunks with actual titles beyond chapter numbers. That would have been easier to navigate.

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Good book, mediocre performance

Revisado: 01-22-23

This book deserves a better audio editor. There are many mispronunciations of words and sentences.

I learned a lot from this expansive reconfiguration of existing ideas and literature.

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Excellent exploration of migration and modern life

Revisado: 05-16-21

This book does what good literature does. It changes the world to suit the story, but only slightly. And then the story expands the horizon of the audience. It’s not the same as when it were read by an actor, but in some ways I prefer this. It reminds me of being read to by my dad.

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Not a book!

Revisado: 11-07-18

This is not a book! Fry calls the chapter episodes, it’s more like a podcast or radio series. As such, it’s very interesting. And fry is marvelous as always.

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