Liam Irwin itibaren Hapu Khedi, Madhya Pradesh, India

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04/19/2024

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2018-04-06 22:40

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I'm not really sure what to make of this book. It's basically "The history of Hawaii according to Sarah Vowell." I guess you could make the argument that every history book is basically, "history according to the author," but this one takes it to a different level (i.e. Vowell's New York City snark and pretensions). I guess this could be interesting if you are a big fan of Vowell or her mother, but I have no clue who Vowell is. Vowell is honest about her characteristics -- she doesn't deny being pretentious -- but after a while all her snarky, pretentious comments started to annoy me. I mean, do we care that she once interned at the Smithsonion? Does having a great great great great great great etc. Native American family member make her somehow feel more empathy for what the native Hawaiians went through? Uh... sure. I also got really annoyed when she claimed that the haoles (interesting how she feels free to use that word... is it really her word to use? Doesn't she see that she is a haole? Does she see that she's making money off of the story of Hawaiians?) took the land, but it's okay because they did it legally. Oh boy. Sigh. Snarkiness, politics, and her New York City pretentious attitude aside, the book isn't all that well organized. It's book about the history of Hawaii (and, let's be honest, it's a book about Sarah Vowell), but there are no chapters. I would have appreciated a few breaks in the writing or some kind of organization. At times she rambles on and on about a subject and then goes back to what she was originally talking about, but by that time she'd lost me. Some of the information she wrote about was pretty interesting, so I'll give her two stars for that, but that's it. I'm surprised so many people liked this book, but maybe there are a lot of snarky, pretentious New Yorkers who read it? Ha! (I kid... sorta.)

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