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Title: eloquent, but ho-hum
Review: In today's overspent consumer society, we need persuasive voices to promote thinking and discourse about consumption and values, and to rally us to change. Juliet Schor has such a voice, and I'm glad she's using it. And yet ... I have to say I didn't get much out of this book. It's a predictable diatribe against high consumption that dwells too much on SUV-driving residents of McMansions and overemphasizes a romanticized 1950s-style family/neighborhood life as the alternative vision. Can we really end the consumerist era by turning back the hands of time and restoring puritanical values? Would we even want to? To imagine a post-consumerist future, we need ideas more original and forward-looking than are found in this book.
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