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Overhyped. I agree with most of the major points made in the book but the book does not provide any real proof for those points. There is a lot bad rhetoric (straw man, red herring, appeals to authority, etc). The facts gathered are very interesting and clearly "support" the hypothesis, but not well enough to leave lots of room for doubt (even where I agree). The agenda becomes painfully obvious near the end.

Meh.

Over hyped. It's an essay paper that was stretched into something book length by the use of white space, chapter notes, acknowledgements, end notes, references, an index, and lots of anecdotal evidence.

There are lots of interesting bits and facts but a lot of the evidence used, in my opinion, does not back up the thesis all that well.

This is SUCH a THICK book. It is difficult reading. There are some (a few) interesting turns of phrase and a lengthy monologue that I enjoyed and thought might make a good audition piece for theatre but mostly it is thick. And that is both in the length of the book (945 pages with small font, not a lot of margin or leading, and in trade paperback format) and the boring complexity of the (over) writing.

We'll see.

This was the best written book I have read in many years.