Hollow Island
New Yorker
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Ok so I'll say it...
I hope someone rips the audio book...
You know you can buy it, right?
Ok so I'll say it...
I hope someone rips the audio book...
Oh my god NO WAY?!You know you can buy it, right?
Oh my god NO WAY?!
Yeah! Like, you don't need to hope someone will pirate it for you! You can LITERALLY buy it from many online retailers, and your local indie bookstore probably also sells downloads of audiobooks!
Can I rent it from my local library for free?
Wow. Is this new?Yeah! Like, you don't need to hope someone will pirate it for you! You can LITERALLY buy it from many online retailers, and your local indie bookstore probably also sells downloads of audiobooks!
Aw man it would suck if they'd cut out CoBL - admittedly it was a phone recording, but I really enjoyed what I could hear from the new version, it seemed like an arrangement that really suited the song well.
It's cool that they've made an official playlist though. Can't be long until the announcement
where did you hear that new version?
If they released the songs it would take the focus away from the book itself. A few days wait makes sense. The songs aren’t going to take on any less significance released just shortly after and by that point people will have worked there way through most or even all of the book/audio book. I think the short clips for the audio book give us the perfect amount just to get us interested/excited about what’s to come without completely switching focus from book to songs.I'm failing to see the logic of having a tie in album with your autobiography and not realize the tie in WITH the autobiography. Am I missing something?
In one scene here, Bono, net worth an estimated $700 million, has a private meeting with Barack Obama, net worth about $70 million, and persuades him to give more aid to Africa. Obama promptly does so.
It isn't his money of course, it's the American taxpayers'. It's two very rich men agreeing to redistribute the wealth of some often fairly poor people in the U.S. to even poorer people in Africa. The net worth of the average American without a High School diploma is a shockingly low $20,780.
I got notified of this review today and yip, its by the Daily Mail, but how can you miss the point so massively if you've read the book and see just what level Bono was working at to try and secure massive, ongoing financial support for the causes he's been working for.
This is one of those things that has been repeated ad nauseam by people who just say "why don't they donate their money" whenever a celebrity pops up promoting a charity cause. As if that would make a lasting difference. Or even a dent in things in some cases.