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Be warned. Thereโ€™s some realโ€ฆracist choices made in the audiobook reading.

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Are you referring to how he reads Odetta/Dettaโ€™s voices?

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Definitely. I know itโ€™s kinda written that way but I was not ready for that old man to fully lean into it. I was perplexed and wanted to turn it off.

I listened through that over a decade ago and thatโ€™s still what I remember most from that audiobook.

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I agree that itโ€™s uncomfortable, but I do think it was true to how it was written. Iโ€™m not sure Iโ€™d call it racist in the overt sense of the word, but as I white person, Iโ€™m not sure Iโ€™m qualified to make that judgement.

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