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A review by die6die
A Flag Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of National Symbols by Tim Marshall
Did not finish book.
2.0
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I was sooo disappointed by this book! Ugh! It sat on my shelves for years because I was too excited to read it. But it turns out a book on flags where there are so few pictures (and what few there are are all in the center of the book, which calls for a lot of flipping back and forth) kinda...sucks. After about 20 pages I discovered I’d rather have just a standard book of flags with brief historical notes. His brief views on certain flags aren’t really interesting (I get it, the Italian flag equals food), some facts get repeated incessantly (hey hey, flags come from silk banners in China - let me repeat that four times so you finally get it). Sometimes he doesn’t care and lumps several countries together in a single paragraph - I thought we weren’t looking at EVERY country’s flag - just skip it, dude.
Ugh. i love flags. I loved his previous book, Prisoners of Geography. Such a bummer.
I was sooo disappointed by this book! Ugh! It sat on my shelves for years because I was too excited to read it. But it turns out a book on flags where there are so few pictures (and what few there are are all in the center of the book, which calls for a lot of flipping back and forth) kinda...sucks. After about 20 pages I discovered I’d rather have just a standard book of flags with brief historical notes. His brief views on certain flags aren’t really interesting (I get it, the Italian flag equals food), some facts get repeated incessantly (hey hey, flags come from silk banners in China - let me repeat that four times so you finally get it). Sometimes he doesn’t care and lumps several countries together in a single paragraph - I thought we weren’t looking at EVERY country’s flag - just skip it, dude.
Ugh. i love flags. I loved his previous book, Prisoners of Geography. Such a bummer.