A review by callofthelibrary
The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth

2.0

endless frustrating and not even because of the language. actually really enjoyed puzzling through the shadow tongue and connecting to a past evocation of humanity. my problems lie much more with how boring and repetitive this got which is not necessarily a bad thing in introspective works. it's just that i hate basically everything about kingworths ideology implict in the text (and explicitly in his interviews) and think he's incredibly misguided/knows jackshit about history outside of his own accepted narrative. started with a lot of promise about how this text could humanize an often unreachable past but quickly realized kingsworths plan was much more about collapsing history between then and now.