Mumbo Jumbo overview

After reading the novel I realized, that I liked the book even less after it was over. I really did dislike the book. I don't think that it was just too much of a confusing book to read and to comprehend, I think that it had more to do with the content. The only thing that I did like about the book was the back story behind the text. i liked how reed could bring in the Egyptian mythology and add his own spin to it, but still make it comprehensible and understandable. The rest of the book I could really have done without. Hinckle Von Vampton and the search for the text was all just uninteresting to me. I understood the Mu'tafika and their goals to return the "stolen" artifacts but it all seemed to not be very productive. I think Reed in writing such a novel to speak out against the oppression of Western Civilization, it was not as productive as it should have been. Reed got his point across as we discussed in class but you have to dig through so many layers to get to it. I think that the novel would have been better had Reed just said what he needed to say. There could still be a story line and a plot, it could all even have the same setting, it just could benefit from less of the confusing, abstract speech.