For film buffs this glimpse of Kubrick's style developing in the mid-fifties is very cool (interplay of light and shadow, action sequences, camera angles), and the story overall is tense and enveloping, altho on final consideration the plot was thin.
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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