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I didn't get this book at all. It's supposed to be brilliant and funny and clever and a comment on modern society etc etc etc. I just thought it was pretentious and boring and -- eventually -- irritating as all get out. Guess I'm not (post)modern enough. But I'm OK with that.
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I read this over the weekend while sitting in airports and on airplanes, which seems appropriate. I even really enjoyed it for the first 100 pages or so! "oh, don, I see what you did there! cultural studies CAN be ridiculous! we ARE surrounded by a numbing plague of advertising and packaging!"
but then it didn't go any deeper than that, and the whole thing started to feel rather facile. sure, he linked the fear of death and the love of consumables in an inverse relationship that could have been i ...more
but then it didn't go any deeper than that, and the whole thing started to feel rather facile. sure, he linked the fear of death and the love of consumables in an inverse relationship that could have been i ...more
I don't know why but I just can't get this book finished. I've tried several times, and even buckled down and tried the audiobook (which went better), but I get 20-25% of the way through and just lose interest in the characters.
I think I'll try again, but I need to give it a break. Perhaps a winter book, not a spring/summer one.
Some of the writing though, is just terrific and I can see why this is well liked.
While the younger kids come off a little too "Dawson's Creek", the older teenage son r ...more
I think I'll try again, but I need to give it a break. Perhaps a winter book, not a spring/summer one.
Some of the writing though, is just terrific and I can see why this is well liked.
While the younger kids come off a little too "Dawson's Creek", the older teenage son r ...more
If I had to pick a few words to describe this book, I think I'd use "wry" and "existential". I loved reading it, having its pages of vivid prose and its characters' self-serving, pseudo-intellectual analysis of their world wash over me. There is something tremendously pleasing about the self-aware fraudulence of the primary characters, their insistence on and attachment to acting a part, their finding shallow meanings in the surface layers of American popular consumer culture - all of which inev
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Decent read, although full of angst.
Nov 10, 2007
Heather
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Feb 12, 2008
Vicki
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Jun 15, 2008
Jayda
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Apr 30, 2010
Karel
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Feb 17, 2011
Jenny
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Oct 08, 2012
Patrick Nichols
marked it as want
Mar 26, 2013
Kathy Jo
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Feb 07, 2014
Debra Harrison
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Sep 13, 2014
Chris
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Jun 28, 2015
Brad
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May 14, 2017
Scott Parkin
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Oct 18, 2019
Mitchell Friedman
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