This was about 100% more readable than I expected it to be. Arendt is a witty, articulate and often structurally beautiful prose writer (in her third language!), and she builds up to her ideas in a way that's logical and easy to follow. I was expecting something dense in terms of impenetrable and this was not that.

It was however dense in terms of there being a hell of a lot going on. Arendt is examining the many facets that tip a society in to a Totalitarian regime, and she has a lot of theories and a lot going on. I found by the end I was having trouble keeping track of all of her strands of argument. I feel like it'd benefit from at least a second read through.

Alarming in a modern context.