Remy rated One Piece Vol. 3: 4 stars
One Piece Vol. 3 by Eiichiro Oda (One Piece, #3)
If Monkey D. Luffy wants to achieve his goal of being King of the Pirates, he'll have to defeat the …
this is good for people who need its message, but it feels very focused on privileged middle to upper middle class people as a demographic—you know, white collar people who are working into burnout and just need a nudge to have permission to take a break.
as a leftist already, it was already messages i knew about and the book didn’t give me any new messages to chew on. the book reframes calvinist work ethic and capitalistic critique in a way that might be more palatable to neoliberals or garden variety democrats, but if you know about those concepts already the book won’t teach you anything new.
ymmv. i’d still recommend it to people who i feel need the message, and whom i think might have kneejerk reactions to specific language, despite how very. . .’kid gloves’ the book feels at times.
