For anyone who doesn't know, it's a book about how crude oil in the mid east is actually alive and sentient on levels we don't understand and we are doing its bidding by building our culture around its byproducts and tearing ourselves apart over the land it resides in. It's a really interesting concept and one that I can't believe isn't a more common conspiracy theory. The more I think about it the more I think it might actually be true. The book is the definition of off the fucking rails. It's a great read.