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Book Review of Not Buying It : My Year Without Shopping

Not Buying It : My Year Without Shopping
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Helpful Score: 9


This book is mostly a rapidly-becoming-dated political screed about the author's feelings about the president, conservatives, and capitalism. If you don't share her politics (and possibly even if you do, because her musings aren't all that interesting or well-written), the book doesn't have much to offer. She spends more time flogging the Bush administration than she does exploring her own assumptions about which aspects of her own lifestyle count as "necessary" and which are "luxuries" afforded to her by the privileged place she occupies in society. All in all, this book was a disappointment.