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Among the best political analyses out there

Revisado: 12-11-24

If you want to know why poor people vote for billionaires who promise tax breaks to billionaires, read this book.

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Please, everyone, read this book

Revisado: 12-25-22

This is among the most important and insightful books I’ve ever read, and I believe the wisdom and humanity in it could have a profound impact on the political world, especially in our approach to incarceration.

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No reason to read this book

Revisado: 04-25-21

If you already believe in Biblical Inerrancy, then there’s no reason to read this book. Because all it is is a collection of people who believe in Biblical Inerrancy repeating the belief that the Bible is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

If, however, you don’t believe in Biblical Inerrancy, and you want a defense or explanation of Biblical Inerrancy, then there’s no reason to read this book, because the writers all subscribe to “presuppositional apologetics,” which is to say, they all begin from the presumption that the Bible is inerrant, and then they argue from that premise, making one big circle of reasoning. They don’t explain, for instance, why multiple retellings of Paul’s conversion story appear in direct contradiction with each other (Acts 9, 22, and 26); they just dismiss it as an “apparent contradiction” and go back to quoting the Bible where the Bible says the Bible is inerrant.

Perhaps there is one reason to read it: in William Barrick’s contribution, “Can Error and Revelation Coexist? Inerrancy and Alleged Contradictions,” there’s an important admission that, “Due to the involvement of fallen men and women, errors do creep into the biblical text during its transmission.” Barrick makes the same admission for translations. “Such errors...reflect the work of fallen people who make mistakes in either translating or editing the Bible versions.” The next sentence does a lot to undermine the rest of the 477 pages/14+ hours of this book: “The doctrine of inerrancy applies to the original manuscripts and does *not* extend into scribal/textual transmission.”

In other words: the Bible is the perfect, inerrant, infallible Word of God. It’s just that (unless you have a seminary education and access to extremely rare extant manuscripts) you’ve never read it.

Don’t buy this book.

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Read this book

Revisado: 02-16-18

When They Call You a Terrorist is a powerful, lyrical, timely narrative that blends history, theory, modern romance, and poetry into a manifesto of hope and liberation. Read and love it, along with the preface by Angela Davis and the appended interview. Idiosyncratic Tip: Skip the stardust intro and get straight into the chapters proper. Your eyes will be welling in no time.

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Missing material

Revisado: 12-26-17

Mitchell's translations are haunting and evocative, and while the recording quality leaves something to be desired, the sound is not as poor here as it is on some other Mitchell recordings.

My main complaint is that this audiobook omits the author's Foreword (where much of Mitchell's contributions are) and one of the Sonnets to Orpheus (XVI of the First Part). While some readers might care to hear only the poems themselves without any of the biographical context or notes on translation method on the Foreword, it seems that anyone who ordered this book would want to hear all of the poems in their entirety. Here's hoping it is rerecorded and rereleased in greater fullness.

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Revisado: 06-29-17

My new celebrity crush is the speaking voice of Claire Danes. Excellent bonus materials, too.

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Sadly, sound quality is poor.

Revisado: 04-30-17

Stephen Mitchell's reading of his eloquent, moving, challenging text is excellent, but the production quality is unfortunately very poor. It would be wonderful if this recording could be remastered to clarify the reading itself.

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Hilariously bad

Revisado: 08-15-11

It would be very hard to find a worse reading (of any book). (Well, some stuff on Librivox is pretty bad, but at least they aren't selling it...) The reader, Deaver Brown, occasionally adds additional words or simply replaces words with his own choices. And a huge chunk of the crucial opening story ("The Book of the Grotesque") is missing, leading me to believe that Deaver accidentally turned two pages at the same time without noticing his error. It is as if no one played it back even once before sending it to press. Lastly, probably the most embarrassing aspect of this reading is that the narrator slowly,carefully reads the *table of contents* and later painstakingly describes an *illustration* in the edition of Winesburg, Ohio that he happens to be reading. It's actually quite funny.

Actually: I've changed my own mind. Buy it anyway & treat yourself to a couple of laughs.

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