A great audiobook can bring a text *alive* in a beautiful way. From everything I can tell this is nothing but an afterthought. Jesse Williams wasn't free? That dude clearly is a fan. Don't waste your money, just buy the text. Unfortunately for us, Coates seems completely unconcerned. I've read many of these essays already, and the astounding gravity of these works deserves an equally astounding performance. What a disappointment, what a lost opportunity. It sounds like he's reading the works for the first time. What in the what? Even if he had done the minimal effort of learning how to pronounce the author's name, it is clear from the jump he has done no homework. THE NARRATOR DOESN'T EVEN PRONOUNCE HIS NAME CORRECTLY. Not to mention, who tf recorded this? The cuts are sloppy as hell, the punches are jarringly clear and unnatural. The narrator is trying to hard, his voice an exaggerated gravel. The narrator has no understanding of the flow of Coates's prose, no measurement or care is taken to the carefully assembled sentences. The only possible conclusion I can draw, merely five minutes in, is that Ta-Nehisi Coates does not give a single shit about this audiobook.
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