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A review by zoey222
The Death Ship by B. Traven
4.0
It starts off with some dark, humorous satire about bureaucracy, and ends with a brutal and unrelenting crash course in the horrible lives of bureaucratically enslaved sailors. B Traven has a bit of the "Buzz Killington" vibe, which was the style at the time of this writing. As such the story tends to slog at some points, but the subject matter and overall execution is good enough to forgive his occasional meanderings and trite tangents.
Even B Traven, a man filled with progressive and radical pro-human ideas, was still a raging sexist, racist ass hole. My god, how white men paraded about with their pricks in hand. No wonder we are still reckoning with sexism and racism in modern times. This author's casual remarks about beating women and obviously ignorant stance on people of color are only sufferable because he cares so deeply about the working class.
Even B Traven, a man filled with progressive and radical pro-human ideas, was still a raging sexist, racist ass hole. My god, how white men paraded about with their pricks in hand. No wonder we are still reckoning with sexism and racism in modern times. This author's casual remarks about beating women and obviously ignorant stance on people of color are only sufferable because he cares so deeply about the working class.