Deep Play: Notes on a Balinese Cockfight

In one word or less? Overly verbose, informative but drawn out and never ending. Ok so maybe I need a few more than one (or less). I'm not what I would considered a detailed, analytical thinker who can run off hard facts all day long. I feed off raw emotion (definitely mixed with some actually facts or wisdom you could say) and not emotion displayed behind a thick glass wall of dry facts and drawn out observations.
I found myself constantly at the bottom of the page wondering what the hell I had just read and questioning whether or not I could just keep going since the plot wasn't always readily available in my mind and where the book was didn't always seem relevant. When I finished however, I did realize it was all tied together and did make sense. It's a society that's not unlike any other in that they have their rituals and superstitions and are basically friendly, but also have a collective "shadow" side where they can more easily display their more base sides (through violence, gambling, etc.), yet there is something honorable and complex about even this. I think his point was that when you stop looking at a society merely from an outsider's point of view you start to realize that every culture is linked somehow and that how we are as a people comes out very pronounced in the ways we do things as a community, if we do anything at all as a community (doing nothing at all can still speak volumes about us as private citizens too). You really can start to understand the Balinese on a deeper level if you simply take the time to study their pass time, which happens to be cockfighting.
That being said, it was still pretty boring and difficult to get through, his writing style is so dry and almost lackluster. I'm sure cockfighting is very exciting and intense in real life, yet I was falling asleep at his descriptions, and wanting nothing more than to just be finished.