A review by historyofjess
Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 by Sarah Schulman

challenging informative slow-paced

4.0

This was a really intense document of a very emotional period in queer history and I'm really glad to have read it. That being said, I didn't always love the way the book was laid out and presented. Some of this definitely has to do with the audiobook, which was not separated into clear chapters, but rather a bunch of tracks that cut across the different books/chapters and the narrator. While she had a pleasant voice, I found her reading to often be hard to follow. So much of this book is quotations that are written the way people speak, and she would just run through them, without giving a good separation between the narrative pieces of the book and the quotations. Her reading was also just a little herky jerky at time, particularly with the natural speech elements, but there were also several moments where she would pause in the middle of a sentence or a compound word, it was very distracting. I found the the author-read opening and closing bits to be much better, especially since she was reading about her own experiences.