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Go the Way Your Blood Beats
- On Truth, Bisexuality and Desire
- Narrated by: Harrison Knights
- Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
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Using bisexuality as a frame, Go the Way Your Blood Beats questions the division of sexuality into straight and gay, in a timely exploration of the complex histories and psychologies of human desire. A challenge to the idea that sexuality can either ever be fully known or neatly categorised, it is a meditation on desire's unknowability.
Interwoven with anonymous addresses to past loves - the sex of whom remain obscure - the book demonstrates the universalism of human desire. Part essay, part memoir, part love letter, Go the Way Your Blood Beats asks us to see desire and sexuality as analogous with art - a mysterious, creative force.
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On Freedom
- Four Songs of Care and Constraint
- By: Maggie Nelson
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 72
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 55
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Story5 out of 5 stars 54
So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to our autonomy, justice, and well-being, or is freedom's long star turn coming to a close? Does a continued obsession with the term enliven and emancipate, or reflect a deepening nihilism (or both)? On Freedom examines such questions by tracing the concept's complexities in four distinct realms: art, sex, drugs, and climate.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just great
- By Kristi Strong on 12-14-21
By: Maggie Nelson
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Down Girl
- The Logic of Misogyny
- By: Kate Manne
- Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 361
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 299
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 296
Misogyny is a hot topic, yet it's often misunderstood. What is misogyny, exactly? Who deserves to be called a misogynist? How does misogyny contrast with sexism, and why is it prone to persist - or increase - even when sexist gender roles are waning? This book is an exploration of misogyny in public life and politics by the moral philosopher Kate Manne. It argues that misogyny should not be understood primarily in terms of the hatred or hostility some men feel toward all or most women. Rather, it's primarily about controlling, policing, punishing, and exiling the "bad" women.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Five Star Book w/bad Narration
- By Cherrybomb on 02-08-19
By: Kate Manne
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Covering
- The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights
- By: Kenji Yoshino
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 41
Everyone covers. To cover is to downplay a disfavored trait so as to blend into the mainstream. Because all of us possess stigmatized attributes, we all encounter pressure to cover in our daily lives. Given its pervasiveness, we may experience this pressure to be a simple fact of social life. Against conventional understanding, Kenji Yoshino argues that the demand to cover can pose a hidden threat to our civil rights.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Humane Advocacy in Law and Life
- By Patroclus Menoetius on 07-27-20
By: Kenji Yoshino
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Bad Sex
- Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution
- By: Nona Willis Aronowitz
- Narrated by: Nona Willis Aronowitz
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 63
At thirty-two years old, everything in Nona Willis Aronowitz’s life, and in America, was in disarray. Her marriage was falling apart. Her nuclear family was slipping away. Her heart and libido were both in overdrive. Embroiled in an era of fear, reckoning, and reimagining, her assumptions of what “sexual liberation” meant were suddenly up for debate.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I was born in the 50s, sexually active in the mid 70s
- By Pixel on 08-22-22
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Not Gay
- Sex Between Straight White Men
- By: Jane Ward
- Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 131
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 112
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 111
Not Gay thrusts deep into a world where straight guy-on-guy action is not a myth but a reality: There's fraternity and military hazing rituals, where new recruits are made to grab each other's penises and stick fingers up their fellow members' anuses; online personal ads, where straight men seek other straight men to masturbate with; and, last but not least, the long and clandestine history of straight men frequenting public restrooms for sexual encounters with other men.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Extreme Feminism and Liberalism
- By David McDougall on 01-17-18
By: Jane Ward
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Controlling People
- How to Recognize, Understand, and Deal with People Who Try to Control You
- By: Patricia Evans
- Narrated by: Xe Sands
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 346
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 288
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 279
In Controlling People, best-selling author Patricia Evans tackles the "controlling personality" and reveals how and why these people try to run other people's lives. She also explains the compulsion that makes them continue this behavior - even as they alienate others and often lose those they love. Should you ever find yourself in the thrall of someone close to you, Controlling People is here to give you the wisdom, power, and comfort you need to be a stronger, happier, and more independent person.
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5 out of 5 stars
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EXTRAORDINARY
- By Rob on 02-27-14
By: Patricia Evans
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The Unholy Trinity
- Blocking the Left's Assault on Life, Marriage, and Gender
- By: Matt Walsh
- Narrated by: Rand Archer
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 191
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 169
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Story5 out of 5 stars 169
This highly anticipated debut from Matt Walsh of The Blaze demands that conservative voters make a last stand and fight for the moral center of America. The Trump presidency and Republican Congress provides an urgent opportunity to stop the Left's value-bending march to destroy the culture of our country. Republican control of the presidency, senate, and House of Representatives for the next two years is a precious - and fleeting - gift to conservatives.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An excellent read
- By Don Huslage on 12-18-19
By: Matt Walsh
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Love and Limerence
- The Experience of Being in Love
- By: Dorothy Tennov
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 39
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 39
First released more than 40 years ago, Love and Limerence has become a classic in the psychology of emotion. As relevent today as it was then, this book offers insight into love, infatuation, madness, and all flavors of emotion in between.
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1 out of 5 stars
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rundown of surveys and stats
- By supermichelle on 12-28-22
By: Dorothy Tennov
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Living an Examined Life
- By: James Hollis PhD
- Narrated by: Kevin M. Connolly
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 186
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 143
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 140
How do you define “growing up?” Does it mean you achieve certain cultural benchmarks - a steady income, paying taxes, marriage, and children? Or does it mean leaving behind the expectations of others and growing into the person you were meant to be? Here acclaimed author James Hollis guides you through 21 areas for self-inquiry and growth - such as how to exorcise the ghosts of your past, when to choose meaning over happiness, how to construct a mature spirituality, and how to seize permission to be who you really are.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Extraordinary compilation of Dr. Hollis' works
- By Joseph on 02-17-18
By: James Hollis PhD
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How to Love
- By: Gordon Livingston
- Narrated by: James Jenner
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 39
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 29
The internationally best-selling author of Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart, Dr. Gordon Livingston here helps readers discover fulfilling happiness. By recognizing and understanding particular character traits in ourselves and others, we can all learn who best to love - and who best to avoid.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Honest and right to the point
- By Elisabeth on 02-10-10
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God Believes in Love
- Straight Talk About Gay Marriage
- By: Gene Robinson
- Narrated by: Gene Robinson
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 41
From Gene Robinson, the Bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire in the Episcopal Church, the first openly gay person elected (in 2003) to the historic episcopate and the world's leading religious spokesperson for gay rights and gay marriage, comes a groundbreaking book that lovingly and persuasively makes the case for same-sex marriage. It establishes a commonsense, reasoned, religious argument, made by someone who holds the religious text of the Bible to be holy and sacred.
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5 out of 5 stars
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He nailed it!
- By Jamie on 12-27-12
By: Gene Robinson
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Unrequited
- Women and Romantic Obsession
- By: Lisa A. Phillips
- Narrated by: Karen White
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 31
The summer Lisa A. Phillips turned 30, she fell in love with someone who didn't return her feelings. She soon became obsessed. She followed him around, called him compulsively, and talked about him endlessly. One desperate morning, after she snuck into his apartment building, he picked up a baseball bat to protect himself and began to dial 911. Her unrequited love had changed her from a sane, conscientious college teacher and radio reporter into someone she barely recognized.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great book! So-so narrator....
- By ToluGrace on 04-14-15
By: Lisa A. Phillips
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Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life
- How to Finally, Really Grow Up
- By: James Hollis PhD
- Narrated by: Gary Galone
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 313
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 264
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Story4 out of 5 stars 260
What does it really mean to be a grown-up in today's world? We assume that once we "get it together" with the right job, marry the right person, have children, and buy a home, all is settled and well. But adulthood presents varying levels of growth and is rarely the respite of stability we expected. Turbulent emotional shifts can take place anywhere between the ages of 35 and 70 when we question the choices we've made, realize our limitations, and feel stuck - commonly known as the "midlife crisis".
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1 out of 5 stars
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The great bait and switch.
- By real. on 12-14-19
By: James Hollis PhD
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The Way of the Heathen
- Practicing Atheism in Everyday Life
- By: Greta Christina
- Narrated by: Greta Christina
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 43
So you're an atheist. Now what? The way we deal with life - with love and sex, pleasure and death, reality and making stuff up - can change dramatically when we stop believing in gods, souls, and afterlives. When we leave religion - or if we never had it in the first place - where do we go? With her unique blend of compassion and humor, thoughtfulness and snark, Greta Christina most emphatically does not propose a single path to a good atheist life. She offers questions to think about, ideas that may be useful, and encouragement to choose your own way.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Navigating the world outside of church
- By Scott Bresinger on 01-21-17
By: Greta Christina
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Insurrection
- To Believe is Human. To Doubt, Divine.
- By: Peter Rollins
- Narrated by: Joshua Swanson
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 85
In this incendiary new work, the controversial author and speaker Peter Rollins proclaims that the Christian faith is not primarily concerned with questions regarding life after death but with the possibility of life before death. In order to unearth this truth, Rollins prescribes a radical and wholesale critique of contemporary Christianity that he calls pyro-theology.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The deconstructed cliff
- By ND4SP33D on 09-22-16
By: Peter Rollins
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Before We Were Trans
- A New History of Gender
- By: Dr. Kit Heyam Ph.D
- Narrated by: Dr. Kit Heyam Ph.D
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 53
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Story5 out of 5 stars 48
Before We Were Trans illuminates the stories of people across the globe, from antiquity to the present, whose experiences of gender have defied binary categories. Blending historical analysis with sharp cultural criticism, trans historian and activist Kit Heyam offers a new, radically inclusive trans history, chronicling expressions of trans experience that are often overlooked, like gender-nonconforming fashion and wartime stage performance. Heyam looks to the past to uncover new horizons for possible trans futures.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The history we need right now
- By Daniel Hebert on 04-11-23
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- Carlitos
- 12-28-21
Interesting yet confusing
I like how topics were handled but they were also all over the place. I stay with some good ideas and mentions.
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- harold lewis
- 09-08-21
for those struggling
this is an exceptional book for those struggling with understanding and accepting their identity. this so bring to the forefront of thought without politics the acceptance of an individuals bisexuality.
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- Alan Daniels
- 08-04-22
Significant, Insightful, Beautiful
The few hours you will spend listening to this book will change you. I cannot think of anything else I have read on these themes that so clearly describes the ways in which western culture confounds itself in its overheated drive to understand the many dimensions of human relationships.
Mr. Amherst does not set out to give all the answers. If anything, he protests against the questions society pressures us to ask—of each other and even of ourselves. I recommend this work highly.
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- didi
- 10-12-21
preachy rant
Great topic. I honestly enjoyed the love letter aspect. However many times the story devolved into a preachy rant.
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- maria
- 01-30-19
This audio needs more attention!
To me this was one of those instances when you find a book you didn't know you were looking for, but once you find it, you fall in love.
Really interesting discussion about the language and the boundaries of the categories we use to think about ourselves, our sexualities and our experiences. It gave words to many thoughts of mine that I've been mulling over and made me reconsider other things. The narrator worked perfectly, his voice was soft and tempered, very enjoyable to listen to, he worked great for both the essay like parts as well as the short but intimate remembrances of lovers that are scattered all through the book (which are beautifully written in second person and they add a poetic touch to what could have been just an academic essay. Love them).
I just finished it, but I need to listen to it again a couple of times to write down many ideas that I want to keep with me.
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- Austin Pierce
- 08-06-21
Somber, reflective, and meditative.
There’s a lot of grief and despair in here.
I don’t agree with the author’s viewpoints. But I was glad to hear differing viewpoints nonetheless.
The author’s affinity with James Baldwin was probably the best part.
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- Thomas J. Lawrence Jr.
- 04-06-19
Complex and insightful
This lays it bare and I am surprised it hasn' t won multiple awards for its message. The style and speed of the narrative takes a little getting used to, but the logic is incisive. You will need to listen more than once to get it all.
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