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From: bookie Category: Books Date: 27 November 2006 Time: 05:30 PM Review: Why is it I learn increasingly less as I read more. First I knew of the book and its concepts in quite a clear way. The orient is a racist colonialist construct of western male conquerors. Then I read the back and it seems interesting and important and our new crusades times. Then the introduction seems clear, impassioned, and intelligent. Then I read the first pages, start to fall asleep, start to get lost in French quotes, start to feel the same idea will be repeated/confused ad nauseam, then it's ore of the same, and evidence which seems flismy and partial, and more quotes, and some philosophy, and no empirical rigor, and I am asleep. Having read 3 pages and skimmed 50. Less is more as they say in the East.