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A review by sfletcher26
Our Revolution: A Future to Believe in by Bernie Sanders
3.0
Finished, finally.
It's strange, I was really looking forward to reading this. Having followed the 2016 US election (let's face it it was hard not to have) and having been amazed at the reaction Sanders was getting (an ardent socialist in a culture that up until now has been fearful of the S word) I thought this couldn't be anything other than a winner. Well it wasn't. Its not that its not interesting. It is, Sanders' ideas are radical and thought provoking. Indeed I find my political views are pretty much aligned with those of Sanders and therefore was interested in what he had to say. But unfortunately it wasn't the message that I had problems with its how the message was delivered. Suffice it to say Sanders is no writer and in this it shows.
The first half of the book is a Sanders eye view of the Democratic nomination campaign and it is what it is. The second half though sadly reads like a collection of poorly edited stump speeches and falls flat for that. I lost count of the number of times I had to read about how the US was the greatest, most rich, most entrepreneurial, in fact most everything country in the world. in some cases it might be true but bloody hell do I have it shoved down my throat every 10 pages. Yes it's rhetoric but in a book less is sometimes more.
In retrospect this may have been better had I have thought to have got it as an audio book. As a book book though its sadly less satisfying.
It's strange, I was really looking forward to reading this. Having followed the 2016 US election (let's face it it was hard not to have) and having been amazed at the reaction Sanders was getting (an ardent socialist in a culture that up until now has been fearful of the S word) I thought this couldn't be anything other than a winner. Well it wasn't. Its not that its not interesting. It is, Sanders' ideas are radical and thought provoking. Indeed I find my political views are pretty much aligned with those of Sanders and therefore was interested in what he had to say. But unfortunately it wasn't the message that I had problems with its how the message was delivered. Suffice it to say Sanders is no writer and in this it shows.
The first half of the book is a Sanders eye view of the Democratic nomination campaign and it is what it is. The second half though sadly reads like a collection of poorly edited stump speeches and falls flat for that. I lost count of the number of times I had to read about how the US was the greatest, most rich, most entrepreneurial, in fact most everything country in the world. in some cases it might be true but bloody hell do I have it shoved down my throat every 10 pages. Yes it's rhetoric but in a book less is sometimes more.
In retrospect this may have been better had I have thought to have got it as an audio book. As a book book though its sadly less satisfying.