A beautiful weaving together of science, poetry, life anecdotes, indigenous history, environmentalism and philosophy into a story that manages to be simultaneously light and deep. I must have cried 3 or four times. This book took me by surprise.
I gave it three stars because so of the ideas were truly new to me. HOWEVER, He routinely made sweeping and unsubstantiated claims about the benefits of a capitalist system, even as citing counter examples. This drove me crazy.
If you pick this book up, read it with a VERY critical eye.
This is a really cool book. It is a true story, meticulously researched, and then written like a novel. While occasionally there are preachy under/overtones, they were not overly distracting. Definitely worth reading!
I love David Graeber. While maybe not as profound as some of his other books, and maybe not as strong a foundation, it is delightfully humours and thought-provoking all the same
