660 reviews for:

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America 1619-2019

Jenny Odell

3.82 AVERAGE

mendoncakatie's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH

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Could not get through this book as the writing was so dry and overstuffed with external sources and anecdotes that it felt like there was no coherent message. A few interesting and thought provoking ideas about our fixation on time and productivity, but I’m not interested in reading hundreds of pages worth of academic literature disguised as nonfiction.

theheidib's review against another edition

3.0

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there were a few good nuggets but the rest was hard to get through -- almost too much content to get through for the good nuggets

bryony's review against another edition

4.0

slow-paced

vlwelser's review against another edition

4.0

informative reflective medium-paced

aithnefeay's review against another edition

4.0

informative inspiring medium-paced

emilyoh's review against another edition

3.25

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

sbcrra's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 28%

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I had a hard time following the writing and that might just be that I'm not smart enough to understand. I lost my momentum.

godricthegreat's review against another edition

5.0

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

emilielovesbooks's review against another edition

4.5

informative reflective slow-paced

jmharkins's review against another edition

5.0

hopeful informative reflective medium-paced