** spoiler alert ** 
 The theory behind the book is quite sound and the book is pretty funny to read. The structure is easy and the argument easy to follow. 
 As a side note, my edition has a now sad foreword about the Arab spring and how that "revolution" will improve Egypt and so on. We all know how all of it ended, with the Muslim Brotherhood and the new dictatorship. It is difficult to look back and not feel some shame for the collective naivety of the progressive commentators at the time.