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A review by honniker
The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
Did not finish book. Stopped at 60%.
I just can't do it anymore. What I was exoecting: A look at what the world could look like if the black plague destroyed Europe.
What I got: a philosophical treatise. That goes on for like 700 pages. I was continuing my slog because occasionally there would be a page or two of something interesting until at 60%, in a discussion on the rise of Islam, It hit me like a slap that Islam might not have been a thing without Christianity because it was heavily influenced by it. Additionally, even if it had been a thing the sects most likely wouldnt have been the same. And while I think the author is trying to discuss the juncture of Islam and Buudhism and other eastern religions and philosophies, it's just, frankly, boring. And so, I'm just over it.
What I got: a philosophical treatise. That goes on for like 700 pages. I was continuing my slog because occasionally there would be a page or two of something interesting until at 60%, in a discussion on the rise of Islam, It hit me like a slap that Islam might not have been a thing without Christianity because it was heavily influenced by it. Additionally, even if it had been a thing the sects most likely wouldnt have been the same. And while I think the author is trying to discuss the juncture of Islam and Buudhism and other eastern religions and philosophies, it's just, frankly, boring. And so, I'm just over it.