A review by oceanwader
The Idea of Justice by Amartya Sen

3.0

The content, thesis and reasoning is terrific, but 3 stars only due to the deplorable academic writing. Without the constant references backwards and forwards to sections in other chapters, the needless adverbs, the repetition of arguments already hashed and repeated to death, and unnecessary asides, this book would have been half as long - and compelled the reader not to put it down. As it was, I ended up skipping portions because the writing was so off-putting. Even so, took me almost a week to get through it.