A review by ponders
Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me by
3.0
Just a note that I am not rating this a 3 because of the content. The ideas provided by Harvey are really interesting, and the history, while not always as robust as I might have hoped, was a decent primer. I would like to have heard more about Harvey's change of mind- that seemed like it was going to be the crux of the book, but more time was spent on the history, rather than with Harvey.
However, the images in this book were so hard to read. There were entire pages where I have to cover up the pages to read the text because there was so much going on in the design of the pages and the details, very little of which actually meaningfully contributed to the ideas or narrative presented. I also feel like it was a very strange choice to frame the story as the day they went to a book store and a library and talked about making this book together. Feels a bit like a cop-out.
tldr: Great ideas. Pretty good history. Weird frame. Awful visuals.
However, the images in this book were so hard to read. There were entire pages where I have to cover up the pages to read the text because there was so much going on in the design of the pages and the details, very little of which actually meaningfully contributed to the ideas or narrative presented. I also feel like it was a very strange choice to frame the story as the day they went to a book store and a library and talked about making this book together. Feels a bit like a cop-out.
tldr: Great ideas. Pretty good history. Weird frame. Awful visuals.