I think when this came out in the mid eighties it was probably refreshing and interesting; decades later, so much of the stuff in here has become standard operating procedure that the book itself feels almost remedial, altho on the other hand, getting back to the source can be fun for historical reasons too.
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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