This is my first exposure to Mike Davis. I've been surprised that so far it's been almost entirely just a litany of human horrors with very little analysis to accompany it. The analysis that there has been has been very good and interesting but I'm finding this text particularly hard to muscle through because it's mostly just a series of facts, and the facts are absolutely terrible to read.

I don't mind the human horror part and can get through it if the balance tilts more towards analysis in the latter half of the text. Has anyone else read it and have any thoughts?

  • hypercracker
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    3 months ago

    No, it does not get better in the way you hope. The most interesting section was about the discovery of the El Niño phenomenon. Reminded me of the Three Body Problem series. I wish he had just stuck with the couple famines in India instead of covering an endless cavalcade of horrors in countries I have never heard of.