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I don't care much for Doctorow's fiction but he has a knack to explain complicated things clearly. And this is true here, as he explains all the ways we got to our enshittified stated. As importantly, the last part of the book is dedicated to potential solutions. 4 stars instead of 5 because the idea that Trump might have an "anti-trust agenda" is laughable.

Lightning did not strike twice. As much as I loved Cultish (Montell's previous book), this one bored me. It's all over the place. There is not much that is new. The examples feel shoehorned. And way, way too many personal stories.

This is the first volume of the Penn Cage set. You can already see the different themes that you find in Iles's contemporary Southern gothic + thriller (the least interesting part of these books, to me, so far). Off to the next one.