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rgardull's review against another edition
4.0
Interesting read. I power of symbols and symbolism is an incredibly interesting subject and to get the history of a diverse range of flags was very informative. I learned a lot about history that I didn't know for a range of different countries.
jwood619's review against another edition
informative
medium-paced
2.5
Not enough material that is well written/researched enough to merit more than 2.5 stars. If interested in the topic you are probably better off hitting up Wikipedia. Some interesting tidbits for sure, but a lot of unnecessary tangents that don’t add value.
badfalcon's review against another edition
I didn't find it as interesting as Prisoners of Geography, I kept skipping over it on my currently-reading and eventually admitted I didn't want to keep reading, so DNFed
cinxmagoer's review against another edition
challenging
funny
hopeful
informative
reflective
fast-paced
4.75
ohevsfarim's review against another edition
1.0
I was perhaps a third through this book before I hoisted a white flag of surrender and quit. I was careful not to return it early to the library, however, in the hopes that I might save some other poor soul who might be as foolish as I to give it a read.
The book is rambling and poorly edited. Facts repeat themselves within the space of two pages, and the narrative seems more stream of consciousness than a well structured presentation of information.
The research is poor. Citations are marked with inverted commas, but the source isn’t always given. Proud though the author may have been to send emails to important persons and to receive (or not) responses, it’s not really pleasurable reading that emails tend to be the long and the short of the independent research. At least, I hope that’s all he did, because some of the information presented in the book proves to be incomplete or inaccurate with a bit of online research.
Simply, the book reads as though written by a calmer version of a position ventured by ‘the red-faced, argumentative man down at the pub’ the author mentions, rambling a bit from topic to topic, repeating itself, putting forth some factoids that seem of interest but are untrustworthy, and probably not as pleasurable as just drinking one’s pint in peace.
The book is rambling and poorly edited. Facts repeat themselves within the space of two pages, and the narrative seems more stream of consciousness than a well structured presentation of information.
The research is poor. Citations are marked with inverted commas, but the source isn’t always given. Proud though the author may have been to send emails to important persons and to receive (or not) responses, it’s not really pleasurable reading that emails tend to be the long and the short of the independent research. At least, I hope that’s all he did, because some of the information presented in the book proves to be incomplete or inaccurate with a bit of online research.
Simply, the book reads as though written by a calmer version of a position ventured by ‘the red-faced, argumentative man down at the pub’ the author mentions, rambling a bit from topic to topic, repeating itself, putting forth some factoids that seem of interest but are untrustworthy, and probably not as pleasurable as just drinking one’s pint in peace.