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"with their literary antecedents being, most notably, Hunter S. Thompson, Evelyn Waugh and Katherine Anne Porter."
To include Hunter S. Thompson (dubious and more appropriate if this were a review of P.J. O'Rouke) and leave out the master, Graham Greene? Or George Orwell? Or even Somerset Maugham?
And the godfather of all them: Joseph Conrad?
Geez.
Che was a warrior, who fought against those who have bought havoc and mayhem to Latin America, he no doubt was a kller, but in the finest sense of the word.
The quotes from the book sure make it sound overwritten, pompous, and full of fake humility.
"I've spent a lot of energy and many years trying to learn a very few basic things, which may turn out to be mostly crude opinions anyway. There's so little in the world we can be sure of, and maybe it's the lack, that flaw or deficiency, if you will, that drives our strongest compulsions."
Ha ha ha.
That letter from Maya0 carries on the true spirit of Che, in the form of a violent, ideological moral certainty that makes George Bush look as thoughtful as the Dalai Lama.
You and Bush belong together, because both of you put your faith in violence as a solution to injustice.
Just look at Iraq to see what suffering your kind brings to the world.
A guy writes a book indicting capitalism, with the intent of...could it be...making money from the book? Another fucking hypocritic liberal jerk-off.
Nice review.
