Eye opening and thought provoking

The Author shares the truth about how most people respond to disasters, and it is not what you have been taught by media and government. The most good can be accomplished by trusting people to help each other.
I totally disagree with the whole climate change theory but other than that I found the book to be eye opening and thought provoking! Thanks.
I also appreciated the partial dramatic reading as well. Good job

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Narration interferes with story

Is there anything you would change about this book?

Narration

What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?

Learning about the criminal behavior of the authorities during the San Francisco earthquake and fires. Fascinating. Other stories were not as cohesive.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

I hung in there until The narrator started speaking with an accent when reading quotes translated from the original Spanish. I found it very offensive and distracting as I wondered whether she would use an accent when quoting people from other non-English speaking nations - will she dare to use a Japanese or Chinese accent??!! (Answer- no, she only used a “Spanish” accent). I finally gave up on listening to the rest of the book since I couldn’t focus on the content.

Any additional comments?

Loved Solnics other writings, especially The Faraway Nearby.

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Okay

Touching stories of triumph of the human spirit amidst disasters…. But mostly weird anarcho-fetishism commentary whose very own examples, in my view, don’t even really support the thesis.

Narration was fine, fake accents are always cringe-y to me… not sure if there’s a great solution to that.

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AN idea whose time has (finally) come

After the mess that was 2020 and what we surely face in the years to come this book is a must read. I worked with Food Not Bombs during Occupy and while it wasn't a disaster, suddenly having 1000 people to feed three meals a day when we usually fed 50 1 meal a week certainly caused a community like Ms Solnit describes in this book. We wpuld do well to heed someone in the book's wiords “It's tempting to ask why if you fed your neighbors during the time of the earthquake and fire, you didn't do so before or after.”

Another world is waiting for us.

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good book, bad narration

The narrator's attempts at a Mexican accent are distractingly horrible. and offensive. Just don't do an accent. that would be better than a bad one.

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Necessary reading for now.

The first chapter is the gem. The takeaways about the role of beliefs, community and action are not only important but necessary in the Covid-19 reality.

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Really informative and uplifting

This book was so worth my time. I loved the positivity. How humans respond to each other during disaster is a very interesting topic.

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Good

A good crash course on anarchism and how communities rise to the occasion during disasters. Spoiler: it’s not the disaster or the average person who cause the most damage and mayhem, but the elites who seek to maintain power during these times. My only criticism would be the narrator’s accents are a little…curious.

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Enjoyed the book despite the narration

Really interesting book, with a lot of interesting insights, well researched; however, the narration was really hard to listen too. The use of accents, which were not well done, was inconsistent and and honestly sometimes offensive. Also some strange pronunciations, like “New OR-lay-ahns,” which I’ve never heard from anyone before. It was so distracting that had to stop listening and just read the rest of the book my library. Perhaps this narrator would be better for fiction.

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a crock of lies

full to the brim with bullshit, Mrs. Solnit offers a revision of history to the tune of Soviet ideology, a series of events that didn't happen. it's 12 hours of self serving lies in audio form.

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