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cinemazombie's review
5.0
Funniest book I have read in a long time, and it's all stuff that actually happened. Turns out when a group of people all decide to simply not help one another while living next to some deep dark woods full of bears - and insist on this method of thinking for a quarter of a millennia - the result is something out of a Three Stooges piece, except with way more guns and forum posts and also people die. Freedom isn't free, but neither are road repairs, fire stations, or wildlife management departments.
Smokey the Bear says "For the love of God don't feed me doughnuts I am a quarter-ton pile of muscle and claw who will rip your cabin door off its hinges to feast upon the goods within"
Smokey the Bear says "For the love of God don't feed me doughnuts I am a quarter-ton pile of muscle and claw who will rip your cabin door off its hinges to feast upon the goods within"
werewolfhitchiker's review against another edition
4.0
An elegantly built reductio ad absurdum of the worship of extreme freedom that rejects any of the purposes for which freedom is good. Maintains compassion for it subjects without muddying at all the very clear point that these people are flatly incorrect about the way the world works and operating under assumptions dangerous to themselves and others.
Especially liked the narrative tone that presents people's actions, then immediately juxtaposes them, without explicit comment, with other apparently unrelated details as context, and leaves the reader to infer the implicit commentary.
Especially liked the narrative tone that presents people's actions, then immediately juxtaposes them, without explicit comment, with other apparently unrelated details as context, and leaves the reader to infer the implicit commentary.
ambermarshall's review against another edition
emotional
funny
informative
medium-paced
4.5
Really interesting and more serious than the articles about it had implied. The chapters more or less alternate between focusing on the libertarians and on the bears and how they intersect. I didn't realize the bears had been an issue for literal centuries. I'm pissed off that Fish and Game absolutely refuses to acknowledge that bears can attack people and victim-blame women minding their own business in their homes when they were attacked.
mericherry's review against another edition
3.0
Interesting, like watching footage of a train wreck inside a perfect storm. With bears. Entertaining at times, but when you stop to think about what it means, it’s quite grotesque.
graham_greene_lantern's review against another edition
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
3.75