But it is only by one off, so it didn't really bother me all that much. I also wanted to point out that the narrators says different chapters then what is listed in the app. And behaves a bit like them too sometimes. The whole flashback to when they were 14 is also a bit confusing to me. It all seems to easy (for my taste) Sawyer says it perfect in the ending of the book "If people just talked to each other shit like this wouldn't happen" -or something like that. And I find it really hard to believe the motives behind it all. I wish there was some more payback from her side, because someone really deserves it (ahem, Jace). I like the character, and the voice acting is absolutely amazing! The story itself is good too, but Dylan goes through so much shit, and is tormented so much, that it was sometimes really hard to listen to. I will first say that I enjoyed listening to it.
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Rogers and Jack Turner have brought together leading scholars to reflect on individual intellectuals from the past four centuries, developing their list with an expansive approach to political expression. African American Political Thought offers an unprecedented philosophical history of thinkers from the African American community and African diaspora who have addressed the central issues of political life: democracy, race, violence, liberation, solidarity, and mass political action. |