D. Cummings

Memoir of a stranger

Revisado: 10-16-24

I heard her on a podcast and wanted to hear more about her journey into and out of the maga movement. What I got was the life story of someone I’ve never heard of, with all the minutiae of her life and education. It felt like the story of her more than the story of a movement. I kept waiting for it to hit its stride but by the halfway mark I was eager for it to be over.

She’s a fine writer but not everyone should narrate their story. This is just my Monk-brain getting hyper focused on a weird thing I notice, but the way she says “stipend” was new to me, and I hated it. But that’s a me problem I suppose.

There are good details in here about some key players in the magaverse, but the way she always connected them to herself or inserted them into her personal narrative was exhausting.

Giving it all 3 stars because it might just be that I’m overly critical of authors that make the story about themselves. But then again, it may just not be a great book.

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I must have missed something

Revisado: 10-03-21

I don’t want to spoil this story for anyone who hasn’t read it yet, but I feel like the only person forgetting anything is the author and the thing she forgot was to tell us what Alice forgot.

Can’t really explain how disappointing it was to slog through the last 3 hours just to learn…nothing.

I need to figure out a way to forget I spent money on this. Maybe I’ll go slip at the gym.

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A must-read...but maybe not a must-listen

Revisado: 05-25-21

An important and informational book in the post-trump years and the point where the biggest obstacle to getting past Covid is vaccine hesitancy.

I just can’t get past some of the quirky narrations and that’s my only criticism. Maybe this is regional but pronouncing -lse words (false, else, etc) with a T is new to me (faltse, eltse). Also calling the aughts “twenty oh one” vs “two thousand one” is odd. Maybe these are colloquial to some but to me they’re really distracting.

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Great story, excellent narration

Revisado: 03-31-21

Didn’t know anything about this author or this story. Glad my friend sent it to me and I highly recommend it. So much emotion and the feelings are intense throughout, in good and bad ways. I look forward to reading more by her.

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