With this book I think I began to love a little, and perhaps even begin to understand Spinoza.

My previous reading of S was a little lukewarm. The Ethics is quite a mathematical text to read, which of course I struggle with, being an artsy literary cloud cuckoo land type. I'm not sure where in this text Deleuze and Spinoza overlap but it's genuinely exciting watching the careful inception of the concept of bodies without organs.

This book has a large blob of definitions in the middle, which takes up about 40 pages. I couldn't quite work out why that was placed there exactly. That's not quite a complaint, just a perplexion.

Must also stop to comment that Deleuze is extraordinarily lucid in this book (by his standards, at least). Perhaps that's because S:PP is his first book and so he's focused on clarity of explanation.

I think this text ought to be approached after having dipped into the primary - have a go at the Ethics first, and if it's altogether unclear (or obnubilated - a word I first encountered in Jameson), then rest assured that this is capable of clearing up issues.