The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
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Book Summary Author: Alan Weisman Edition: Paperback Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Published: 2008-08-05 ISBN: 0312427905 Number of pages: 432 Publisher: Picador Product features:
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Book Reviews of the The World Without Us
Customer Review: Great concept, long boring delivery
Summary: 2 Stars
Great topic, this would have been an excellent 20-30 page paper. It turned instead into a disappointing and wordy 275-page book. While thought-provoking, long sections (second third for example) aren't engaging and it takes serious dedication to keep reading. All the chapters about infrastructure degradation quickly become repetitive and boring.
The book is overall mostly descriptive with limited speculations (towards the end). I am sympathetic to the criticisms of the consumerist society we live, but the author tends to rant way too much to my taste (a la Michael Moore). I feel like telling him: look I agree with you, can you provide me with something I do not know instaed of just agreeable but simplistic statements?
So 5 stars for the great idea, -3 stars for wasting my time over 275 pages when 20-30 would have been enough for the same content.