Verglas finished reading Rise of Ecofascism by Sam Moore
I was really looking forward to this book and I was extremely disappointed.
The book contains quite a bit information-wise, considering it is only 136 (paperback) pages long and is a small but reasonably comprehensive review on the topic of ecofascism.
Sadly, it doesn't go into much detail (I guess that's also too much to ask in 136 pages) and the prose is absolutely terrible. It took me longer than any 136 page book has a right to take because I was actively avoiding picking it up because I didn't want to read it. It was a chore. And I am so so relieved I am finally done with this.
Now I read academic literature as part of my job so that's not it. I think the style just disagreed with me. Every second sentence starts with "As this person said", "as that person wrote", "as such and such commented …
I was really looking forward to this book and I was extremely disappointed.
The book contains quite a bit information-wise, considering it is only 136 (paperback) pages long and is a small but reasonably comprehensive review on the topic of ecofascism.
Sadly, it doesn't go into much detail (I guess that's also too much to ask in 136 pages) and the prose is absolutely terrible. It took me longer than any 136 page book has a right to take because I was actively avoiding picking it up because I didn't want to read it. It was a chore. And I am so so relieved I am finally done with this.
Now I read academic literature as part of my job so that's not it. I think the style just disagreed with me. Every second sentence starts with "As this person said", "as that person wrote", "as such and such commented on", which is not only annoying but also entirely superfluous considering the sentence is also cited and the book has (and this is the one good thing I have to say about it) a pretty extensive reference list for such a small book.
Without those lines, the book perhaps would be even shorter and this space could have been used to put in more detail.
