This book is important and painful to read. It starts mildly enough, with righteous criticisms of ad practices and corporate greed, along with a few f...moreThis book is important and painful to read. It starts mildly enough, with righteous criticisms of ad practices and corporate greed, along with a few feel-good entries. But then the nauseating descriptions of the meatpacking industry take over. “Cogs in the Machine,” “The Most Dangerous Job,” and “What’s in the Meat?” are monumental horror chapters. Page after page of workplace poisons, severed limbs, and food tainted with blood and feces. Lives are crushed – human and animal. Schlosser targets frequent attacks against the US Republican party. I’m not as certain that Republicans are alone in propping up the food industry giants. Whoever and whatever is to blame, after reading “Fast Food Nation” I’m ready to help make it all go away. Schlosser offers solutions in his final chapter, but the book copyright is 2001, and McDonald’s doesn’t seem ready to collapse just yet.(less)
It helps to be able to say I’ve learned something at the end of a non-fiction book. I must have learned something from this, but I’m not sure what.
It...moreIt helps to be able to say I’ve learned something at the end of a non-fiction book. I must have learned something from this, but I’m not sure what.
It shouldn’t be too hard to understand – loans and mortgages and interest rates and bond options. I’ve dealt with all these financial particulars before. But in the context of this book, it all gets too twisted to unravel.
The stories were fun. The best of them were great. And it was easy to wish the best for Lewis in his career as a bond salesman. But he didn’t even explain liar’s poker fully enough to replicate the game. What happens if everyone else challenges the bid, and the bid fails? I’ll just have to be satisfied to remain ignorant, and entertained. (less)
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