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seirid's review against another edition
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
tense
medium-paced
4.5
somepoeticsomething's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
peebee's review
3.0
Bought in Cuba because everyone hawks the same three books and I like the title. Like the copy of Dain Curse I got it's full of typos and misprints that make sense only if someone was running bad scanning software and copy/pasting an already English translated version. It's weird.
Anyway, even allowing for poor translation, Fidel rambles, repeats himself, and fills his speech with SO MUCH unneccessary padding. Of course he wasn't allowed notes, but still. You really got to be in love with the sound of your own voice to expect that a secret government tribunal trying you extrajudicially is going to allow you to ramble for two hours off the top of the dome, and crazy lucky he WAS allowed.
Was fun to see him talking about how Cubans paying 20-30% of their income on rent is a crime, when that's literally the reality the Boomers made for everyone under 40 here. Also an incisive critique of developer brand yimbyism, 70 years before dumbass Californians started swallowing those same arguments as though they were novel or convincing.
Anyway, even allowing for poor translation, Fidel rambles, repeats himself, and fills his speech with SO MUCH unneccessary padding. Of course he wasn't allowed notes, but still. You really got to be in love with the sound of your own voice to expect that a secret government tribunal trying you extrajudicially is going to allow you to ramble for two hours off the top of the dome, and crazy lucky he WAS allowed.
Was fun to see him talking about how Cubans paying 20-30% of their income on rent is a crime, when that's literally the reality the Boomers made for everyone under 40 here. Also an incisive critique of developer brand yimbyism, 70 years before dumbass Californians started swallowing those same arguments as though they were novel or convincing.
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