Rik Corijn Corijn itibaren Zhokino, Ryazanskaya oblast', Rasha, 391745 itibaren Zhokino, Ryazanskaya oblast', Rasha, 391745

More than any other non-fiction book I have ready in the past 10 years, this book is a must read. This book describes the reality, the causes, and the results of urban poverty in the global south. It pins down things I had picked up on through my other readings, but made them more concrete. Not a cheery read, it reminds us that most of the world's population live lives we would consider without hope and without dignity. This fact is not something we can avoid forever--we are not as insular as we have been taught to feel, when it comes to those people/i>. This work is so well written and argued and so compulsively documented that I almost wonder if the author is human or a emissary from the god I don't believe in.

Faulkner's fastest book, and it's kind of a thrill to read if only for that reason. Of course, there's much more to it, and I think that in some ways the shifting perspectives technique here is more fluid and impressive than the Sound and the Fury. The scene of the family crossing the river is amazing...

This was a terrible, terribly depressing book. It took me a month to finish, because I had to keep stopping to read happy things, like Anne of Green Gables. If you are depressed or have depressive tendencies DO NOT READ Revolutionary Road, as you may be suicidal when you are finished.

I thought it was a pretty good book.