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One of the worst things i have ever read lmao. So happy i didn't grow up with such trash.

So far so bad...

Was this book really about Baron Munchausen, or simply an early form of fan-fiction forgery? Much like in-world appearances of Don Quixote and Rousseau, there is a presence yet no life in what appears. Where is the ride on the cannonball or pulling himself up by his own bootstraps, signifiers of someone else less maniacal than this Munchausen? Perhaps I missed much of these bits in the sequence of sentence fragments.

A hero for a vastly different time, whose gleeful whim to find the source of the Nile propagates so many of the colonialist crimes for following centuries not even: Rousseau, Voltaire or Beelzebub offer any resistance to the Baron’s bold plan to get African moon emigrants addicted to fudge. Even at a moment of satire with the white slave traders he has an obvious bout of indignation, not really helping anyone else.