![]() ![]() ![]() He has eight different chapters describing a different aspect of why these slums are horrible beyond imagining, plus subdivisions into different shades of horrible so we don't confuse each source of awful with another. Instead, it is most probably a pit of human excrement.ĭavis takes us on a tour of "megacities" throughout the world- though, mostly they are located in the Third World South, let's be honest. Except in this version, hell is not a pit of fire. If this were the Middle Ages, Davis would have made a fine living as a fire and brimstone preacher, leading rows of self-flagellating monks through the streets and warning you that Judgment Day is coming. You know how in The Dark Knight there's that line, "Some men just want to watch the world burn"? Mike Davis would like to inform you that the world is burning, that it is your fault, and that there is nothing that you can do to stop it. ![]() This is one long howl of rage, interspersed with shockingly brief lucid sections, followed by another info dump of ineffable horror. ![]()
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