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Two Formats, One Memoir, and a Clear Winner
I read the print version of Born a Crime first because I had the book already. Then I listened to the audio version because someone whose opinion I trust told me I had experienced it wrong. They were right. Trevor Noah narrates the audio himself and the experience of hearing him perform his mother's voice, and the voices of the township characters, and his own younger self, is so different from reading those scenes that the two formats are almost different books.


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2 Formats Compared

:QUOTE [quotetype:plain, subtitle:Trevor Noah]
Language, even more than color, defines who you are to people.


:JOURNEY
Reading Born a Crime
4 Quietly shocking
5 Comedy lands
4 Moving and vivid
5 Love in his voice

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How the Two Formats Compare
[x] The audio is superior for every chapter involving dialogue and character voices
[x] The print version is better for the historical context sections
[ ] The audio version of the mother chapters is the best individual section in either
[ ] The print edition has photos and a timeline not available in the audio

:POLL
Which format of Born a Crime did you prefer?
Audio by a significant margin
Print, because I could go at my own pace
Both equally but for different chapters
I have only experienced one format so far