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A Field Guide to Getting Lost

By: Rebecca Solnit
Narrated by: Rebecca Solnit
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Whether she is contemplating the history of walking as a cultural and political experience over the past 200 years (Wanderlust), or using the life of photographer Eadweard Muybridge as a lens to discuss the transformations of space and time in late 19th-century America (River of Shadows), Rebecca Solnit has emerged as an inventive and original writer whose mind is daring in the connections it makes. A Field Guide to Getting Lost draws on emblematic moments and relationships in Solnit's own life to explore issues of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknown. The result is a distinctive, stimulating, and poignant voyage of discovery.

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I wanted to like this, but found the reading very hard to follow. Solnit often pauses halfway through a sentence at an unnatural point, in a way that makes it a challenge to correctly parse. This is a flaw when each sentence is so heavy with meaning.
I was somewhat heartened to read other reviews, which similarly say the reading is difficult to follow. It’s not just me!

Fantastic writer, not a great reader.

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I was looking forward to hearing this book but couldn’t stand listening to that droning voice. Very disappointed.

Depressing narration

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Like most others, I can’t listen for the narration, but I do visit the book when I’m having trouble sleeping. I set the sleep timer and never hear more than the first few hypnotically delivered sentences…

Good for insomnia

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Listening to this book is like mini meditations, on the histories, natural worlds and the sensations we receive from them. The arousal of geotainment. Highly recommend you treat each chapter as a gift of mindful richness.

A mapping of the emotional worlds

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It was OK, not really my kind of thing. Not a fan of the narrator/writers voice , very monotone or some such. I struggled to focus on her voice. And you need to focus. Interesting stories through out, but if your focus slips for a second you're lost. (maybe that's deliberate given the topic of the book)

Not really my thing

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