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This thread could be really dynamic if everyone would type out quotes and opened up discussion. brbA powerful sequel to Benjamin R. Barber's best-selling Jihad vs. McWorld, Consumed offers a vivid portrait of an overproducing global economy that targets children as consumers in a market where there are never enough shoppers and where the primary goal is no longer to manufacture goods but needs. To explain how and why this has come about, Barber brings together extensive empirical research with an original theoretical framework for understanding our contemporary predicament. He asserts that in place of the Protestant ethic once associated with capitalism—encouraging self-restraint, preparing for the future, protecting and self-sacrificing for children and community, and other characteristics of adulthood—we are constantly being seduced into an "infantilist" ethic of consumption.
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Finished it this morning. Ancillary Justice was really good, don't think I've read anything like it. The protagonist is an individual that used to exist as a hive mind that was the AI for a battle spaceship.
There's a slight melancholia to the tale of loyalty and revenge. It's written from the first person so you really get into this 'AI's' head which is at once detached, dispassionate, yet oddly human.
You get a glimpse of existing with fragmented selves which is also the premise of the villainous plot. The novel is not techy at all which I really admire in a sci-fi story. I was almost reminded of Banks' Culture.
You can read other reviews here.
This is also the author Ann Leckie's debut novel and there should be two more novels to make up a trilogy. Looking forward to them.
The last time I read a debut novel I could really get into was Patrick Rothfuss who also wrote in the first person.
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I started this when I was 13. Magician Apprentice was the first fantasy novel I read and got me hooked on this stuff (Sci-fi was Asimov). 24 years later it's finally Magician's End. Slow-going.
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just learned this was Kurt Cobain's favorite book:
Amazon.com: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (9780375725845): Patrick Suskind, John E. Woods: Books
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by Patrick Suskind
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Have you seen the movie? I thought it was great, some people didn't like it though.
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^I think the trailer is enough for me personally
but thanks for sharing it 
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Got sidetracked by
It's difficult reading.
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almost done with:
starting next:
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an MBA Stanford B School student on the airplane I was just on sat next to us reading this book:
Amazon.com: Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products eBook: Nir Eyal, Ryan Hoover: Kindle Store
Might be a good one for you Rezo
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Dead Eye by Mark GreaneyComment
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The largest room in the world, is the room for improvement!Comment
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I´ve just finished Aldous Huxley´s Brave New Wrold. It´s brilliant! can´t believe it was written in 1932It´s a spiritual thing!
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