A review by cmadrenas
The Instructions by Adam Levin

5.0

Wowwwww. Disclaimer, though: maybe I just liked this because of the Stockholm Syndrome. Anyhow it’s like the book equivalent of that Curb Your Enthusiasm episode about Israel/Palestine - you can read it as anti-Palestine, you can read it as anti-Semitic, it’s neither, but that's exactly why the book works so well. I can honestly say the way I think about the conflict—or perhaps, not the way I think about the conflict, but the way I think about how I, and others, think, and speak/write/etc. about it—has been seriously altered. The bits making fun of Internet remixing and blog-truth were so completely on-point. The 9/11 essay could be required reading for youth everywhere. I wonder if/when we're going to start seeing "we damage we" tattoos.