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while the page count goes over 300, it feels like no more than 100, the print on this thing is really large and i could read all 300 pages in a few hours, and a lot of the information is redundant for anybody with even a cursory understanding of us imperialism. it probably shouldn't be marketed so broadly either, considering "analysis of country" is far less common in this book than "analysis of country through the lens of american interventionism", and you're painting yourself into a corner there.

i suppose it could stand to be shorter in some areas, but i get that this was one of the first popular books to actually talk about this shit so chomsky and herman will have undoubtedly felt a lot more pressure to flesh out their arguments. it does absolutely take advantage of chomsky's writing in some areas, though, so it doesn't seem that long.

its quite nice, i can't speak to accuracy because i have a limited knowledge of cuba (the reason i read this book!), but chomsky's good writing is exemplified here, and i'm glad the president could add a foreword

it's fine. the description hypes it up way too much for essentially just being a compendium of short poems about rain, and the translation should not have been praised so extensively, even if it would have been ostensibly difficult, since the original material is lacking in the substance that would have necessitated such a methodical transformation

this book is also completely unknown to goodreads, which made looking for anything about this book an absolute joy(!)

the only article about the book online is a short review which somehow got published by Frontline, so ???

also the book has the gall to quote early wittgenstein and imply a failing of his philosophical capability on the empty space and i'm not sure what that intends to do or critique considering wittgenstein and everyone of his successors or followers had stopped believing that for decades

wait why is there only one result this is an orwell book

anyways its bad

i dont think i can give this book even a thousandth of the words it deserves but, like, go read it. it's nice. go do it. i wish every novel i read for the rest of my life is as introspective, fun, and heavy as this. i wish everybody could read something like this.

reading deleuze was the worstm istake of my life

thankfully two other people beat me to the punch on this one and i have to say i'm not going to miss it

i'm going to go and read deleuze now

how do you even write a book like this

marx/10. turns out i read this a while back and forgot to put it here oops

i couldnt find any details at all about this book lmao