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The audiobook for this uses a different narrator to cleverly differentiate between the text and the footnotes. This naturally involves splicing the audio but is otherwise undisruptive. The clear splicing in the main text, where I assume mistakes were corrected, however, is quite jarring.
— Jun 16, 2026 02:27PM
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I don't want to say the narrator is mispronouncing words necessarily but there have been quite a few pronounced differently than I would expect.
— Jun 19, 2026 08:23PM
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As much as I do love Britain and it's culture as it does feel like home to me, it's books like this that do force me to face the classism and racism that the culture and country are built upon. I'd like to defend it but it is basically indefensible.
— Jun 18, 2026 05:20AM
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Fun fact: Dining in courses was taken from Russia and developed into the manner of service we know today in France. The traditional French way of dining was to offer all courses on serving platters on the table at once.
— Jun 16, 2026 02:24PM
