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nrichtsmeier 's review for:
The Topeka School
by Ben Lerner
I don’t know what to say. It’s either a 2.5/5 or a 4.5/5.
The book works very hard in places, strains readability, gets lost in its non-sequiturs. It clearly wants to be something profound about how the world we know today came into being. And yet it also often carries its neo-liberalism quite awkwardly. Wanting you to believe that it has some tranformational insight just around the corner.
And yet, for much of the book, it’s characters, it’s narrative prose is crisp, piquing curiosity. I wanted to see where it was all going, though never truly satisfied about how it made the trip.
The book works very hard in places, strains readability, gets lost in its non-sequiturs. It clearly wants to be something profound about how the world we know today came into being. And yet it also often carries its neo-liberalism quite awkwardly. Wanting you to believe that it has some tranformational insight just around the corner.
And yet, for much of the book, it’s characters, it’s narrative prose is crisp, piquing curiosity. I wanted to see where it was all going, though never truly satisfied about how it made the trip.