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crimpinglife's review
4.0
I'm not sure if one can really consider this a "book", it's more of a political pamphlet, but it was still a relatively quick (one-and-a-half days is quick for me) and enjoyable read! Arundhati Roy is an incredibly powerful writer! One of the things that I wished for when I was reading this pamphlet were footnotes - I wished Roy could have provided the reader with the adequate reading material that she used to base her opinions and writing on. However, if anyone is curious, this book is a slimmer version of her anthology of essays, Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes on Democracy. As Listening to Grasshoppers was the next book by Roy that I did read, I could see that Public Power in the Age of Empire had borrowed much of the language used in Listening to Grasshoppers. None of my little complaints however took away from Roy's message that nothing short of organized and engaged political action by people will ever be able to change our world.
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