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The Braindead Megaphone
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Tiffany
Sep 23, 2017 rated it really liked it
A good collection of essays on topics including the grandness of Dubai, Huckleberry Finn, a Nepalese boy meditating for seven months, the job of the media and how it lets us down by shouting at us, and calmer minds.

Saunders has an essay in here about reading Kurt Vonnegut, specifically Slaughterhouse Five, for the first time. As my reviews of Vonnegut books suggest (or sometimes outright say), I just don't get Vonnegut. Strangely, though, I often can't put the books down, and I keep reading. Som
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