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Review title: Maybe extinction isn't such a bad thing...
Product review: Ignorance, brutality, indifference, self-destruction--I found this book to be an unrelenting, disjointed catalog of the terrible things people can do to themselves and each other. The narrative is unrelieved by any positive lessons learned. Motivation for any action seems to be the immediate gratification of any need or the avoidance of pain caused by others or the rigid conformation to a social structure that demands subjugation of the weak. "Gal's" observations about herself and others show little empathy, insight or learning. To be fair, none of it is glorified, but told instead in a very matter-of-fact tone devoid of analysis or judgement. As an oral history detailing the multi-generational consequences of poverty and ignorance, this book succeeds. As a tale of redemption, it woefully fails and made me despair for my species.
