the darkerside to rants

That’ll be a quicky. I finished this book on the weekend with mixed feelings.

First of all the title is really stupid, which takes a bit away from the book. The next thing is that the cover hails the author, Linda McQuaig, as “Canada’s Michael Moore”. Nothing against Michael Moore, he’s entertaining, but I don’t think it serves the book well. The association is even worse due to Moore’s “Dude, where’s my country” book from a few years back.

The book itself is rather well written, with a lot of footnotes and references, which clearly differentiates it from Michael Moore’s writing. It brings up interesting points, but it unfortunately doesn’t go far enough at times. It is entertainingly written and an easy read and clearly a good primer, but at times it doesn’t explore it’s ideas to the full extend it could have (and in my opinion should have).

Rating 3.5/5.