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I am gay and I’m crying

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Reviewed: 06-20-18

This hit so many powerful notes that I’m sure any LGBT reader, old or young, will recognize and appreciate. It was beautiful.

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An excellent counterpoint to Economics 101 without vilifying academia

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Reviewed: 01-27-17

I dropped a credit on this book after seeing James Kwak on Bloomberg, discussing the ACA. I was looking for an explanation for why our incoming administration is touting the policies that they are, and found it. Kwak does an excellent job providing the historical precedence for economism, beyond the 101ism that has taken over our society as a whole.

His explanations of those 101 concepts are succinct and understandable, though the vocabulary is a bit hard to keep track of in an audio format. He doesn't work to completely debunk them, as I expected: he provides counterpoint examples and continually stresses the self-fulfilling prophecy that our economic feedback loop has become.

This may be exasperating for those who are looking for a concrete way to take these issues into our own hands - they ought to listen through to the final chapter, where he summarizes his main points and stresses the importance of calling out economism as what it is: an ideology that justifies the way things are for the benefit of an increasingly wealthier upper class, and the detriment of the poor working class.

Mark Bramhall does an excellent job narrating - his pauses and emphasis give the book a flow that makes it digestible despite its occasionally technical bent.

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Shockingly good

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Reviewed: 02-23-16

I'm not really one for stories that involve fates and true love, but everything about this flowed in a way that felt too real to succumb to the stuffy traps I'm used to. Steifvater has a beautiful rhythm that worked quite well with Patton's narration, and though some of his voices were questionable, it all formed a cohesive work of art.

I'm incredibly glad I have this a chance.

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Simply remarkable

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Reviewed: 12-02-15

I had no clue going in just what the book was about, only that it had been recommended to me many times. Impulse buying! I'm just getting into audiobooks but this performance was spectacular. The way he gracefully (which translates to gracelessly) portrayed the misspellings and uncertainty at the beginning was amazing, and the emotion behind his voice was absolutely believable and earnest. The plot kept me interested, and the characters throughly Charlie's eyes were dynamic and multi-faceted even when Charlie was at his most frustrated with them. And I sobbed at the end. Ugly sobs. Wow.

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