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Rob Walker

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born
December 16, 1968

gender
male

place of birth
Houston, TX, The United States

website

genre
Nonfiction

member since
April 2008


about this author

I write the Consumed column for the New York Times Magazine.

My new book, Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are, was published in June.

As a relative newcomer to Goodreads, my bookshelf is relatively threadbare. I'm still deciding the best way to use the site, but I'm thinking a) it'll be in a "starting now" way, tracking reading from April 2008 forward rather than trying to reconstruct my entire reading history, and b) just voluntary reading, leaving out the books I sort of *have to* read for work and research.





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avg rating: 3.75 | 259 ratings | 79 reviews | 4 distinct works | 3 fans
Buying In: The Secret Dialogue... Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are
by Rob Walker (Goodreads author)
avg rating 3.65 — 192 ratings — published 2008
3 editions
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Letters from New Orleans Letters from New Orleans
by Rob Walker (Goodreads author)
avg rating 4.07 — 61 ratings — published 2005
2 editions
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Titans of Finance: True Tales... Titans of Finance: True Tales of Money & Business
by Rob Walker (Goodreads author), Josh Neufeld (Goodreads author)
avg rating 4.50 — 4 ratings — published 2001
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I'm with the Brand: The Secret... I'm with the Brand: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are
by Rob Walker (Goodreads author)
avg rating 3.00 — 2 ratings — published 2008
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July 2008, Rob Walker
"I admit that I certainly counted myself among those who figured I was brandproof. After all, I'm a journalist who writes about this stuff for a living, so if anybody can "see through" it, it's me. Then Nike bought Converse." ...More

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L'Assommoir 06/16 Rob is currently reading:
L'Assommoir (Oxford World's Classics)
by Émile Zola
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June 16
The World in Six Son... Rob added:
The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature (Hardcover)
by Daniel J. Levitin
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read in June, 2009
May 31
The Triumph of Music... Rob gave 5 of 5 stars to:
The Triumph of Music: The Rise of Composers, Musicians and Their Art (Hardcover)
by Tim Blanning
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read in May, 2009
May 09
His Excellency Rob gave 4 of 5 stars to:
His Excellency (Rougon-Macquart)
by Émile Zola
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read in May, 2009
April 05
The Great Funk: Fall... Rob gave 5 of 5 stars to:
The Great Funk: Falling Apart and Coming Together (on a Shag Rug) in the Seventies
by Thomas Hine
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read in April, 2009
April 02
The Road Rob gave 5 of 5 stars to:
The Road (Hardcover)
by Cormac McCarthy
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read in April, 2009
March 28
Musicophilia: Tales... Rob gave 5 of 5 stars to:
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Vintage)
by Oliver W. Sacks
my rating:
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read in March, 2009
March 15
Heart of Darkness &... Rob gave 3 of 5 stars to:
Heart of Darkness & The Secret Sharer (Bantam Classics)
by Joseph Conrad
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read in March, 2009
January 30
Sweet Songs for Gent... Rob gave 3 of 5 stars to:
Sweet Songs for Gentle Americans: The Parlor Song in America, 1790-1860 (Hardcover)
by Nicholas E. Tawa
my rating:
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read in February, 2009

Rob Rob said: "Probably this is only something to read if you're really interested in the way popular music was consumed/enjoyed before the era of recording. It's very well researched, but not well structured or well written or particularly accessible. It's kind of...more "
December 22, 2008
Abbé Mouret's Trans... Rob gave 3 of 5 stars to:
Abbé Mouret's Transgression (Rougon-Macquart)
by Émile Zola, Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
my rating:
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read in January, 2009
November 28, 2008
Lost City Radio Rob gave 4 of 5 stars to:
Lost City Radio (Hardcover)
by Daniel Alarcón
my rating:
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read in December, 2008
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