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The Trolls of Wall Street: How the Outcasts and Insurgents Are Hacking the Markets

Nathaniel Popper

4.0

informative medium-paced

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i normally listen to my audiobooks at 300% speed, so i was entirely unprepared to hear the phrase “money go brrrrr” where due to the speed the ‘brrrr’ sounded somewhere between the narrator’s voice and dragging a fridge. had to rewind the narration cus i was laughing too hard to hear any of the subsequent sentences lmao

Japanese Humour: Tourist Library Vol. 24

R H Blyth

3.75

funny reflective slow-paced

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filled with a good number of examples, but the entire book is filtered through the lens of a british expat living in japan so there are some weird comparisons at times

Japanese Poetry: The 'Uta

Arthur Waley

4.75

mysterious reflective relaxing fast-paced

100 Poems from the Japanese

Kenneth Rexroth

4.5

reflective fast-paced

Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle

Clare Hunter

4.0

informative medium-paced

War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine

Norman Solomon

4.0

challenging dark informative fast-paced

When They Blew the Levee: Race, Politics, and Community in Pinhook, Missouri

Elaine J. Lawless, David Todd Lawrence

4.5

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free: And Other Paradoxes of Our Broken Legal System

Jed S. Rakoff

3.75

informative fast-paced

Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution

Susan Stryker, Emily Cauldwell (Narrator)

4.5

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them

Max Cutler

3.75

dark informative reflective medium-paced