A review by kurtadb
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle by Daniel L. Everett

3.0

This was fascinating, especially if you got into this article: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/04/16/070416fa_fact_colapinto. It's not terribly well-written, but it's not bad and it goes by pretty quickly. The biggest problem is his discussion of his challenge to Chomsky's Universal Grammar. He comes off as very defensive and touchy about it. And it feels like he's going after Chomsky personally. There is some history there, as that NYer article notes, but since he doesn't go into it in the book, it sort of feels like you walked into the middle of a conversation. And it detracts from Everett's ability to clearly describe his thesis.