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  <title><![CDATA[Conspicuous Consumption (Penguin Great Ideas)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Thorstein Veblen]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a wretched little book.  I don't know much about the author, I know the book, <em>Theory of the Leisure Class</em>, is a famous sociology text, and that these parts all come from that whole.  What I don't know if there is something missing in these parts that in the full text, would say, &quot;I'm jokin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32361886">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Sep 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like a dry, uneven satire written by Henry James. Just not juicy enough for me. To be fair, the whole was devoured in the whoozy and pained post-operative state. Not the best for many books. I'll have to come back to this to see if I served it poorly.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[While I applaud Veblen for the coining of the excellent phrase &quot;conspicuous consumption&quot;, and while I enjoyed many of his ideas on how leisure time, activities and consumption have all been cultivated as indicators of wealth and therefore status, the new ideas I got from this book were sad...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5180579">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[i only bought this book for its pretty embossed cover. (the entire penguin great ideas series is a work of art in regards to book cover design.) in it, the author purports that the main goal of western consumption is to secure and maintain social status. even though published more than a century ago...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15720733">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Funny as hell in a Swiftian spirit. Do people write like this anymore? Does this culture of culture critique persist? I want to know about it. I'm stuck in 17th C stuff too much, so if theres someone who knows of contemporary writing of this kind, tell me. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[We spend money on silly stuff sometimes, and it's not admirable. There--now you don't have to read Conspicuous Consumption! I'm sure if I were a true intellectual I'd have found this small philosophical tome very engaging, but I'm not and I didn't.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Aug 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[You are what you consume.  And you consume what you think you are.  Haven't run into a 100+ year old idea this solid in a while.  Now I want to read the entire Theory of the Leisure Class.]]></body>
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  <date_updated>Wed Aug 06 18:28:33 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The problem with reading Great Books after they've been fully assimilated into other people's world view is that you read them and go, &quot;Well, duh.&quot;  And so it was with this.  Alas.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I lost my copy, I guess I will shelve it for now]]></body>
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