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The style is a sort of blur between an actual pop lit book and a scholarly work without the footnotes (note: not the same). It's broad and inevitably, awkwardly shallow in a lot of places, but that does not take much away from the importance of what Graeber is trying to document and understand.

Yes...I got this book mixed up with another Timothy Gallagher title and I'm still not sad that I'm reading it for the second time this year. I clearly need it.

This is horribly like playing Civilizations and having your Renaissance cavalry unit find a continent-wide civilization still at Stone Age tech level and wiping their entire army out by itself. Only these were real people.

Just when I think he's done quoting some Frenchman at prodigious length and arguing with him, he starts again.

The best case scenario for this book was to be packed with interesting history as well as being supremely depressing, and that's pretty much where we're at.

As I recall others had to step in and write their own accounts of Hutton's plutonist insights, and I can definitely see why. What a tedious, confusing, arrogant slog this book is. What a shortsighted idiot arguing with other shortsighted idiots. Fascinating how science, and geology specifically, somehow emerged from all this rot.