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ricardoreading's review
4.0
Initially I picked this up because I love both Laurie Penny's writing (I think she's the closest thing we have to an actual, factual Spider Jerusalem) and Molly Crabapple's art. And I guess I wanted to know more about Greece's troubles, as one of the things I've been working on this year is being more politically aware.
I certainly didn't expect to read something that was so totally relevant to what we're currently going through in Puerto Rico. Greece is an ocean away, after all, and their politics are so different than ours. How could....
But once again, it turned out to be a case of me underestimating our innate and so so human ability to brilliantly and marvelously fuck things up.
Puerto Rico's going through something of an economic upheaval, and it's left our politics and political discourse in disarray. So much of the subject matter and attitudes discussed here struck so many similar chords that it left me a bit shaken, to say the least. Greece has been journeying through this deep and problematic cavern for a while now, though, and we're just now, foolishly and recklessly stumbling into it. We can just see the dark abyss for now, and that in of itself is scary enough, but if Penny and Crabapple's reportage is anything to go by, there is light shining at the end of it all.
It's a distant light, of course, and you have to struggle to see it. But that is kind of the point.
I certainly didn't expect to read something that was so totally relevant to what we're currently going through in Puerto Rico. Greece is an ocean away, after all, and their politics are so different than ours. How could....
But once again, it turned out to be a case of me underestimating our innate and so so human ability to brilliantly and marvelously fuck things up.
Puerto Rico's going through something of an economic upheaval, and it's left our politics and political discourse in disarray. So much of the subject matter and attitudes discussed here struck so many similar chords that it left me a bit shaken, to say the least. Greece has been journeying through this deep and problematic cavern for a while now, though, and we're just now, foolishly and recklessly stumbling into it. We can just see the dark abyss for now, and that in of itself is scary enough, but if Penny and Crabapple's reportage is anything to go by, there is light shining at the end of it all.
It's a distant light, of course, and you have to struggle to see it. But that is kind of the point.
welshcoaster's review
3.0
I really like Laurie Penny's journalism and this short book/extended column is a good example of her writing. It's accompanied by Molly Crabapples brilliant illustrations so it is a modern gonzo reportage similar but different to Hunter S Thompson and Ralph Steadman. The story of Greek misery is distressing however and I worry what the future holds for us.
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