Affluenza : The All-Consuming Epidemic

from mrtall

Given all the plaudits Affluenza has received, I found it to be a surprisingly bad book. I suppose its authorial team is to be given credit for 'consciousness raising' -- but they're awful writers. We get plenty o' platitudes -- plus bromides! Shrill, hectoring denunciations of American lifestyle...

from auntieknickers

I checked this book out because it was on a list that appeared, I think, in the Food and Drink issue of the New York Times Magazine. (You'll see many others in my current or recent reading list.) I saw the television documentary on which it was based several years ago, and I have to say that this...

from Chris.Bulin

This could have been a good book, it is a topic we should all care about. Unfortunately, the premise was weak, there was no hook, they just kept smacking around that poor dead horse. I wanted this book to be revelatory, instead it was somnambulatory.

from boomda181

Although I agree with the overall premise of the book, that we should all consider how we spend our earnings and evaluate our wants versus our needs, I found this book to be very repetitive and preachy.

from Chris_Bulin

This could have been a good book, it is a topic we should all care about. Unfortunately, the premise was weak, there was no hook, they just kept smacking around that poor dead horse. I wanted this book to be revelatory, instead it was somnambulatory.