notablebird 's review for:

American War by Omar El Akkad

1.75

slow-paced

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How did this book get such good reviews, even at the time? A good futuristic book needs a grasp of two things: the arc of technological innovation and a keen understanding of how it will warp human institutions. This book has neither. Reading it in 2025, it is dated nonsense, way off the mark of where things were headed in 2018 let alone now. Poorly organized, poorly written, no plot hook. He's an academic at the end? Please. No idea why I wasted my time reading all of it.