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I gave up on it. Eventually the scope is too scattered, and the tribes mentioned too many to be presented as the author did. I had to keep reminding myself when this was written, and tried to also make perhaps unfounded presumptions about the authors perspective.

I’m glad I picked this up, and glad I ripped through 1/4 of it in the first days, but trying to read a few pages before bed of this is tough going.

I’be laughed aloud, and now at a breaking point am in shock. Will finish tonight.

...and just like that it changes. Enthralling, truly.

I’m loving this so much, it’s such a 180 from the Sound and the Fury, which I just finished. I’ve gone from no punctuation to a near over abundance. But it’s the either/or equivalency and simplicity of thought and action that’s so welcome. It’s so different than the life in my mind I’m fascinated at the thought of being Meursault, perhaps it could become a hashtag lifegoals.

I was a bit mistaken in progress before, in the second chapter the narration becomes much more digestible, at least in its flow.

It began as confusing, it continues to be. I don’t know at what point if any this will make sense, but am continuing to read regardless because out of context passages made me interested in the author and I’m looking for why.

Look at it this way, I bought this book 7 hours ago. It’s fairly dense with dates, names, tribes etc and tells multiple accounts of events then tell why they’re likely right or wrong. Anyway, I’m nearly 100 pages in already and am absolutely enthralled. Love that I’m learning so much more about my region of the country and it’s rich cultural heritage that none of “us Americans” were taught in school.