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Title: Dumpster Diving: The Advanced Course : How to Turn Other People's Trash into Money, Publicity, and Power by John Hoffman ISBN: 1-58160-369-X Publisher: Paladin Press Pub. Date: November, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (6 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Not as good as the first.
Comment: This book was not as well-written or as useful as the first. I consider it to have been a waste of money because there was little in the way of practical advice.
Compared to the original, with its no-nonsense prose, clearly-organized chapters, sprinkled with philosophy, this book was a rambling diatribe that went nowhere. It did have some good tips for the EXPERIENCED diver who wants to make money faster by diving behind electronics stores, etc. but if you are not sure whether diving is your cup of tea, I would buy the first book and try those tips first.
Rating: 4
Summary: Essays on Seattles "Ultimate Grunge" scene.
Comment: Don't be read this "Advanced Course" and think that you're going to learn anything technical. This book is creative non-fiction, a hint at a broader field of inquiry... a ... chant of a "No World Order" and a first draft of a Doctrine of Discards worthy of Foucault, as interpreted by Henry Miller.
I know because I was there. I'm Biker Bill (introduced on page 9).
Hoffman sent me the book in the mail today and I've underlined the sections where I'm mentioned, then I tried to reconcile my feelings of those days of Seattle's cultural rise and materialistic fall. Myself, I left in early '99 and gave it all up as a lost cause.
This is Fear and Loathing time! A real Hunter S. Hoffman treatment. He's not delusional or a liar... a bit manic, perhaps, but he's honest.
The best thing the reader can do is set aside all preconceptions about what the book "should be." Hoffman's trying to explain what we found in the back alleys of the U-district in the 90's. You want Grunge? It's deeper...
Dig a little. There's a cosmology to be discovered this ... heap of a book and it's not pretty.... this is a primal, raw, transcendental leap into America's Vomitorium of Unabashed Excess: the discards of society in the mental wards, linked loosely to his father's maybe encounter with Thomas Pynchon and the odd entropic chill of a hopeless task... to bring existential meaning to a life lived at the edge of a society hell-bent on devouring itself to death.
There's a Solid Waste Sutra in this collection of essays, and it may be different to each one who reads it. While I've never really agreed with Hoffman's politics, I still admired his brash ability to shake things up, keep ideas moving forward... shaking loose the cobwebs...
I still have the key he gave me. It's an arrowhead trophy of that time and place... Hoffman's rendering make it sound like we were among the Beat poets in '50s San Francisco. Perhaps we were.
So read the book and start a Enlighted Diver's Cult, maybe... DumpsterFest Weekend is the last weekend of school in the U-district each May. You meet a lot of nice folks there! Maybe get your church youth group or girl scout troop to join in!
But you must dive for your own wisdom. It's better than Yoga for stimulating the bloodflow to your brain.
Find that diamond for yourself.
Rating: 5
Summary: It motivates you
Comment: Dumpster Diving: The Advanced Course takes trash picking to a level far beyond the occasional find on the side of the road. In a world of "extreme" games and "survival" shows this book could easily provide the base for a few Michael Moor-ish "reality" shows.
One of these shows would have teams competing to unveil the most corporate crime, another could have teams competing to create the largest Media moment for social/political/environmental change (not implying that any of these topics are separate from each other in any way). Less challenging and more network marketable would be something that goes along with the new Millionaire mania... "Treasure Trash". Who ever makes the first million through selling trash-picked items wins. The last show (and probably the least likely to air) would drop a few millionaire types off on an island dump site. These folks would have to live on our garbage for an entire decade. What could we possible offer someone of such wealth that would motivate them to play such an extreme game? Maybe they could be President of the United States...or President of the world? It wouldn't be very different from the way thing's are currently run... and the optimist in me says that maybe such a person would have some revelations over that time period, and actually DO something that positively affects the whole of the planet instead of positively affecting the hole in their own pocket.
Ok , enough of that ranty tangent! If you don't mind tangents, this book will certainly entertain you. Hoffman's backward and forward style artfully mirrors some of his explanations and beliefs about time, the power of thought, and the big effects of small actions. And you have to make it to the "Really, Really Weird Chapter." May your wings cause a hurricane of change!
If political change is one of your motivating factors, check out this book.
If the idea of recycling for a living, a GOOD living, motivates you, check out this book.
If living on less motivates you, check out this book.
If nothing motivates you - check out this book and get moving!
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Title: Art and Science of Dumpster Diving by John Hoffman, Ace Twisted Image Backwords, Jim Broadstreet ISBN: 1893626075 Publisher: Breakout Productions Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: How to Survive Without a Salary: Learning How to Live the Conserver Lifestyle by Charles Long ISBN: 1894622375 Publisher: Warwick Publishing Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Living Well on Practically Nothing: Revised and Updated Edition by Edward H. Romney, Ed Romney ISBN: 1581602820 Publisher: Paladin Press Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship With Money and Achieving Financial Independence by Joe Dominguez, Vicki Robin ISBN: 0140286780 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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