18.6k reviews for:

Born a Crime

Trevor Noah

4.56 AVERAGE

juliatho's review against another edition

4.5

emotional funny inspiring fast-paced

ashleyrae22's review against another edition

5.0

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I love Trevor's reading of this. You can definitely feel his emotions as the book goes on. Had me laughing and crying! Highly recommend!

mhlackman's review against another edition

3.5

challenging emotional slow-paced

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I’ve never read a celebrity memoir that didn’t cover the part of their life where they become a celebrity. This book is definitely dark and challenging at times and somewhat repetitive. The timeline (or lack thereof) is quite confusing. 

anjavh's review against another edition

4.75

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helsiebaby's review against another edition

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What a fascinating read (listen). I had no idea how much I didn't know about apartheid, and I'll be reading more. As far as this book goes, on the personal level, I found his writing about his lion of a mother to be moving and powerful and the funny anecdotes on the whole to the book's detriment. But the broader cultural discussion, the linguistics, being born and raised in that particular political moment, the impact of global institutional racism on South African society and especially in that particular time in history - I could have listened to him talk about all that for hours. More hours!

kyliec's review against another edition

5.0

funny inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

amina81's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

nessieread's review against another edition

4.5

dark hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

manu_ela's review against another edition

4.5

funny lighthearted medium-paced

aisling_90's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced