A review by me_haugen
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber

5.0

Read this one while I was waiting for the fracas at the El Paso Entomology conference to get all sorted out. I went mostly to see if any new bugs were out like a shiner beetle or a big fuzzy pet bug for people allergic to dogs or something. There were some pretty good talks though like "dessert in the desert" where some guy gave us lemon scones made with cricket flour or the first person to count all the legs on a centipede got a lifetime achievement award and their talk was pretty good. But, then I got into it with some Christian bug enthusiasts because they were saying even though he's more sentient than a normal worm, Earthworm Jim still doesn't have a soul. Anyway, some unfortunate words were said, I got beat up and halfway crucified on a paper mache butterfly. The only thing that saved me was some spider researcher saw what was happening and dropped a brown recluse on one of my enemies' heads. This book was good.