159 reviews for:

The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War

Jeff Sharlet

4.1 AVERAGE

jdgerlach's review

5.0

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

bernieanderson's review

4.0

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American gothic, theatre of the absurd.
This is both good journalism and great writing. Worth the read.

sksnikolaus's review

3.75

challenging dark informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

aliarose's review

5.0

challenging dark informative tense medium-paced

owenhopp's review

4.5

challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense slow-paced

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A truly eye opening book. Challenging and disturbing but important 

hjdutton's review

4.0

informative sad medium-paced

bookhawk's review

3.75

challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

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The Undertow is a challenging book to rate. The importance of the topic and some of the revelations captured and conveyed by elements of the pro-gun, QAnon, and mostly white Christian nationalist elements are 5 star important and disturbing. Some of the book’s essays were so nonlinear as to be almost nonsensical at times as though attempts at making it artistic drained the value of the book dipping to 2 stars at moments. This book of essays was therefore inconsistent and overall a 3.75 star read. I still recommend reading for those high value portions which were considerable, chilling, a nd important.

kittyburritoland's review against another edition

4.5

challenging informative reflective tense medium-paced

sharkduck125's review against another edition

4.0

emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

pixelbean's review against another edition

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