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Men Explain Things to Me

Written by: Rebecca Solnit
Narrated by: Luci Christian Bell
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In Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit takes on the conversations between men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't. The ultimate problem, she shows in her comic, scathing essay, is female self-doubt and the silencing of women. Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of 14 books about civil society, popular power, uprisings, art, environment, place, pleasure, politics, hope, and memory, most recently The Faraway Nearby, a book on empathy and storytelling. She is a Harper's Magazine contributing editor.

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Overall the story was interesting and well written, however the narration was terrible. The tone, enunciation of the words and general intonation did not match the content being read. It made it ver difficult to listen to and I had to turn it off several times and come back to the book at a later date.

Poor narrator pick

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I would highly recommend reading the physical book/ ebook. This audio book is horrible. Rebecca does not have a good recording voice. I'm sure it's fine live, but I have a very hard time listening to it on audio....

I would recommend reading the physical book/ ebook

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The narrator was clear, had a sense of humour, and didn't over-dramatize. The writing was razor sharp, intelligent, and well researched and the narrator's interpretation made it a series repeated of "Aha!" moments. Well worth the time and money spent.

Excellent narrator and razor sharp writing

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I guess it just felt all over the place. It starts out with an anecdote that frames men as the issue but then goes through the author's bibliography, adoration for Virginia Wolfe and personal successes. Tirades on the evils of the IMF and other global systems also appear along with celebrations of feminism and a deluge of hand-picked stats. What was the point of it all?

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had it for free so can't complain much about it. Was expecting something else like going in depth of male behavior we do: mansplaining, manspreading, manterupting, etc

Some parts of the book feel like it was going around it circles. Maybe that I was missing knowledge. Anyway, I like when things are concise and have possible solutions to known problems

I feel I had more knowledge with Born in 1982

was expecting something else

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