Not sure why this had folks all riled up given a lot of the stories and anecdotes are clearly false. Still entertaining enough for one read.
Read this over the course of a few days while waiting around. Certainly it feels like a strange fable.
Imagine a supermassive blackhole, surounded by superheat gas and dust, and a couple planets, capable perhaps of surporting life. This is "2666".
It's an interesting read, but the title is selling a different book to what it is. Weatherford gives a fascinating overview of China immediately fo...