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Well, it's very readable. That's a great relief. But my god are the characters irritating twerps. There's an entire passage by the Prof guy espousing the most imbecilic pseduo-philosophical twaddle, about the value of irrationality and how we need to embrace our primitive side, inane crank reactionary drivel peddled by esoteric fascists and spiritual charlatans. If there's more like this...then...well...here we go!

"All that remained was his body, lifeless, clothed in the suit. Now it looked calm and satisfied, as if the spirit were pleased to be finally free of the matter, and the matter were please to be finally free of the spirit. In this short space of time a metaphysical divorce had occured"

Holy hell this is amazing! "It is the feet that all knowledge of Mankind lies hidden; the body sends them a weighty sense of who we really are and how we relate to the earth. It's the toutch of the earth, at its point of contact with the body that the whole mystery is located...The feet - those are our plugs into the socket". Cool!

Really surprisingly enjoyable. Writing is sharp and quick, the mystery interesting and engaging, and the depiction of the natives (obviously, while inherently authoritarian due to being a colonial one) is not presented too bad (for now :s)

This is so utterly fucking brilliant in every conceivable way it hurts. I think i may now start adding quotes from the book here that I love, for personal reference of nothing else, although at this point it's almost every page. So far it's already basically a 5 starrer, and im barely 30% in.

I think I may die of boredom finishing this. My god, does it ever end? 12 days reading a book this size is appaling.

"It was like something out of a Gothic tale"

Are you fucking kidding me? You're actually having to tell me it is Gothic, in a book where that's expected? Are you fucking kidding me? I'm genuinely so shocked that someone could write something so abysmally ham fisted and bad that I'm tempted to be just done with it here and now. But it has an interesting premise and the reviews sound good, so I'll soldier on.

Have read precisely 10 pages of this book and I already want to fucking throw it into the nearest fire.

So far so boring. Although a reasonably interesting premise, he's not pulling it through to me. Generic analysis of Trump which gives us nothing new (although it was written a year after his victory, so it was probably fresh analysis then). Good definitions given of populism at begging, but not analysed really. Just stated then move on. Wait and see I guess.

Getting through it!

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