The book mumbo jumbo, by Ishmael Reed, is a story about well, it seems almost nothing. The title of this book clearly explains the issues and storyline throughout the book. The book is supposedly to be a humorous take on western civilization, but the way it is written makes it hard to understand. From dialoge with no quotation to paragraphs with no punctuation, the story is hard to follow and very distracting. If one has the time to re-read all the passages and figure out all the hidden meanings than it can probably be an interessting book full of humorous events, but I did not, so i didn't get as much out of it as I could have. Read it for yourself to see, but be aware of the confusion.