{"id":3064,"date":"2018-05-26T21:32:16","date_gmt":"2018-05-26T21:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/?p=3064"},"modified":"2018-05-26T21:32:16","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T21:32:16","slug":"the-monk-of-mokha-by-dave-eggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/the-monk-of-mokha-by-dave-eggers\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>The Monk of Mokha<\/em> by Dave Eggers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/35260125-the-monk-of-mokha\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.gr-assets.com\/books\/1517235671m\/35260125.jpg\" alt=\"The Monk of Mokha\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/35260125-the-monk-of-mokha\">The Monk of Mokha<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/3371.Dave_Eggers\">Dave Eggers<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/2403685184\">1 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I struggled to make my way through this audiobook, but the reader&#8217;s aggravating breathless awestruck delivery of every sentence thwarted my attempts. It&#8217;s a mundane non-fiction report about coffee history and commodity pricing, at least at the beginning, so why the jaw-dropping amazement at every line? The author suggests that any decent human being should &#8220;step up&#8221; and pay eight dollars for a cup of arabica coffee &#8211; its &#8220;real price&#8221; &#8211; so than Yemeni farmers can get paid fairly for coffee and stop growing khat. Maybe I&#8217;m morally bereft, but I&#8217;m quite happy with my daily two cups of Taster&#8217;s Choice instant for 15 cents a cup or whatever it costs. No, I don&#8217;t care about the fate of Yemeni farmers; if they prefer to grow khat, that&#8217;s fine with me. This is the same reader for this author&#8217;s earlier book <a title=\"The Circle by Dave Eggers\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/18302455.The_Circle\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Circle<\/a> and I couldn&#8217;t make it through that one for the same reason.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/12975428-russell-atkinson\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers My rating: 1 of 5 stars I struggled to make my way through this audiobook, but the reader&#8217;s aggravating breathless awestruck delivery of every sentence thwarted my attempts. 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