Tool-Being: Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Objects Book

What do you know, a Graham Harman book on "relational ontology" that doesn't mention Latour once.

I'm uniquely unqualified to write a philosophical review of Tool-being: I'm entirely new to Heidegger (other than trying to read - and giving up before a third of the way - Miguel de Beistegui's Truth and Genesis a couple of years ago) and I read it over the course of a few days/many hours a day as if it was a crime novel.

What I can say is that charges of repetitiveness are true: the man does revisit his ongoing, gradually transforming position every few paces so we don't get lost, which was really helpful for me. I often review philosophical books saying that people should read the conclusions first so they don't get lost (this is true for Deleuze & Guattari, for example), but here what one'd expect in "the conclusions" is well-spread throughout the book as it develops. Also, there's a plot twist near the very end.

Hidden gem: a whole section comprising a rather positive appraisal of Slavoj Zizek's work from The Ticklish Subject on. This on a dry tome that tries to squeeze the "speculative realist" position (a reality independent of human access, etc.) Harman is impressively erudite, and knows his Lacan better than I know my English.