Nathan

Sexist and stylistically repetitive

Revisado: 03-21-20

Sexism: This book has an entire chapter on dark matter that doesn't mention Vera Rubin once, though it does find space to go on and on about Fritz Zwicky and Albert Einstein and some random male grad student the author met.

Style: The writing can be pleasant in short bursts, but listen to it too long and you become painfully aware of endless phrases like "crick of the ship, jig of the chip, more morsels for dolphins and their dorsals". That's not an actually line from the book, but it may as well be. There's only so much cutesy alliteration and subverted rhyme scheme that I can take while listening to nominal prose.

The narration is good.

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Important for everyone

Revisado: 03-05-20

Researchers, politicians, engineers, administrators, managers, and basically every other data-driven worker should listen to this entire audiobook.

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Thoughtful, uncomfortable book

Revisado: 01-17-20

I loved this book. It helped me think much more clearly about other people and their bodies, their lives. I'm more empathetic and thoughtful for having listened to this. And Roxanne Gay narrates her own work perfectly.

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Essential listening for every progressive activist

Revisado: 01-09-20

This book is a powerful manifesto for intersectionality in activism and organizing, told by a frontline soldier in struggles for human equality. It also demonstrates the importance of short-term tactics and long-term strategies working in concert with boundless vision to achieve this equality. And the author reads her work perfectly. This audiobook has my unqualified recommendation.

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Haunting narrative and perfect narration

Revisado: 12-03-19

This was a beautiful book and it was narrated perfectly. I plan to listen again many times.

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Environmental justice is possible

Revisado: 10-18-19

This book lays out how we can think about human and environmental health in ways that don't arbitrarily separate the two concepts or hide them behind imagined barriers of monetary cost. I will be revisiting this one many times.

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A guide to make congresspeople help workers

Revisado: 10-12-19

This book made me pay attention. It's a fascinating story, told well, and it's instructive. I hope every employed person in the country reads this book (or listens to the delightful narrator).

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Horrifying historical narrative

Revisado: 09-23-19

This book should be taught from in middle and high schools. It's that important.

Unfortunately, the narrator did not seem to have prepared his delivery very well. There is emphasis on the wrong words in hundreds of sentences, and inappropriate delivery relative to punctuation just as often. As a result, I was frequently confused about which clause or sentence we were in, and what the order of clause dependence was supposed to be.

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Crucial guide to current feminist ethos in U.S.

Revisado: 09-14-19

Hilarious, wrenching, beautiful, and good. I learned a lot, emotionally and intellectually, and feel more driven than ever to get rich white men out of political power.

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Overwhelmingly beautiful and sad

Revisado: 09-08-19

Whoever you are, I think that listening to this audiobook with open heart will make you wiser and more thoughtful.

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