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A review by cyphers
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano
4.0
Really great and thorough account of 400 years of history. Each paragraph has like 17 different facts about things that happened all over the continent at different times, but that all contribute to one specific point. A few dozen of those paragraphs will make different points about a broader topic or trend, and a few of those sections make up a chapter with a title like "Mankind's Poverty as a Consequence of the Wealth of the Land."
This is very impressive - I don't know how the author was able to ingest and process all this information into all these separate threads - but it makes the book exhausting to read. I couldn't get through more than a few pages at a time, and I forgot a lot of names and dates as soon as I closed the book. It's dense in a way that is hard to skim or summarize on the fly. And it is very depressing.
highly recommend for people with long attention spans, but worth the effort for everyone else too imo.
This is very impressive - I don't know how the author was able to ingest and process all this information into all these separate threads - but it makes the book exhausting to read. I couldn't get through more than a few pages at a time, and I forgot a lot of names and dates as soon as I closed the book. It's dense in a way that is hard to skim or summarize on the fly. And it is very depressing.
highly recommend for people with long attention spans, but worth the effort for everyone else too imo.