The fifth and sixth books in Erikson's Malazan series are less focused, with even more characters and oh so many intersecting plot lines, such that altho the writing and details are on par with Erikson's excellent work, the overall picture has suffered a bit.
This historical treatise has a lot of notoriety but I found it unnecessarily dense, and ultimately flawed, in that its focus on states and state power ignores a related discussion of capitalist power, such that altho there is a useful perspective to glean here about how a drive for social legibility can transform a society, I wouldn't recommend the book overall.
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