Doerr’s first novel is far too long, far too sentimental; you can see all the signs of what will make him a world-class writer but he’s not there yet; it wasn’t bad but I would only recommend this to completionists like myself.
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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