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Title: Consuming Desires: Consumption, Culture, and the Pursuit of Happiness by Roger Rosenblatt, Jane Smiley, Bharati Mukherjee ISBN: 1-55963-535-5 Publisher: Shearwater Books Pub. Date: June, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 1.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Occasionally interesting
Comment: This book consists of a series 13 new essays by well-known writers on the topic of consumerism, together with an introduction by Roger Rosenblatt. About half the essays are sermons on the demons of consumerism and consumption. Mixed in with the diatribe are some interesting more informative pieces on such topics as competitive spending (Juliet Schor), youth consumerism (Alex Kotlowitz), ecology (Bill McKibben), publishing (Andre Schiffrin), and housework (Jane Smiley). Bharati Mukherjee contributes an Indian immigrant's view on consumerism, which hints at the lack of concern or comprehension about hyper-consumerism held by the population of one of the world's largest developing countries. If you are interested in consumerism (or preparing your own sermon on the topic), you may find some material of interest in this book.
Rating: 1
Summary: Pap.
Comment: Roger Rosenblatt is a preternaturally shallow man, and in this volume he has assmbled more of his ilk to pratter endlessly on a rather simple minded notion: That people acquire things to fill spiritual voids.
He's got some heavy hitters here, like WIlliam Greider, a man who proves that you can be a brilliant reporter and yet still be an idiot when it comes to analysis. Most of them are quite taken with their own ideas, and like Roseblatt think quite a lot of what they have to say.
But in the end it's all rather tiresome and banal.
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Title: Holidays and Holy Nights: Celebrating Twelve Seasonal Festivals of the Christian Year by Christopher Hill ISBN: 0835608107 Publisher: Quest Books Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Culture and Consumption: New Approaches to the Symbolic Character of Consumer Goods and Activities (Midland Book, 628) by Grant McCracken ISBN: 0253206286 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: December, 1991 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Consumer Society Reader by Juliet Schor, Douglas B. Holt, Douglas Holt ISBN: 1565845986 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Bowling Alone : The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam ISBN: 0743203046 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 07 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Eye of the Storm: Living Spiritually in the Real World by Kenneth Leech ISBN: 006065208X Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: August, 1992 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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