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Oh for the love of Long-winded boorish one star reviewers who can't or don't finish the book but feel the necessity of writing a extensively long catty "review" and rating it one star. What's wrong with, it wasn't for me and I'm not finishing it so therefore I couldn't possibly rate it. But then who would follow that.

As you can see I'm enjoying reading this Fantasy novel more than reading the reviews.

Here I go again. Rereading. Don't know why at this stage I've taken to re-reading instead of newly published, maybe the less reading time I have the more I only want to read what I know for sure is good.

Re-read

" and that was the vast gap--the countless poor on one side,the few rich on the other, was demoralizing for anybody in-between "

"This was one grim lesson I learned in Egypt: unstructured authoritarianism is even worse than structured authoritarianism"

"...the conspiracy theories were expressions of helplessness, and they also allowed for denial of responsibility."

" herein lies the attractiveness of ethnic agitation: it's ease and accessibility. The Other is visible, everyone can recognize and remember his image. One doesn't have to read books, think, discuss: it's enough to just look. "