Avery’s Reviews > Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling > Status Update
Avery
is 6% done
I found the intro aggravating and worried that was a bad sign for the actual meat of the book but then I am reading negative reviews and most of these people do not understand anthropology or what an ethnography is. De Leon even knew this so he explained both terms/practices in the intro that people obvious did not read. le sigh.
— Jan 11, 2026 10:24AM
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Avery
is 67% done
oh God. He is finally back to torturing us with navel gazing. we get it, you will go back to your "ivory tower". this is suppose to be an ethnography.
— Jan 11, 2026 05:28PM
Avery
is 19% done
I take back my earlier update. I understand the confusion because an ethnography this is not. this is far more of a narrative nonfiction than an ethnography and I am certain De Leon knows that. I am going to finish this with an open mind HOWEVER I do think my already negative impression is salvageable.
— Jan 11, 2026 02:47PM
