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Nickel and Dimed: On Being a Pretentious Bitch in America

Jun 03, 2010 20:14

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masquerader317 June 4 2010, 00:37:16 UTC

I love this review!

gehayi June 4 2010, 00:51:01 UTC

Excellent review. I read this book recently and...yeah. The distance that the author had, and her lack of comprehension about basic issues bothered me.

I have heard the "I'm going to write about this great social experiment" too many times to count. it doesn't impress me anymore; generally, I don't even believe it. I suspect her co-workers thought she was just coming up with an excuse to blow off work.

And smoking pot before a drug test is just fucking STUPID.

Thank you for detailing all the ways this fails.

ladyruby07 June 4 2010, 01:54:03 UTC

Greatest Social Experiment book I ever read was "Black Like Me." That's pretty much the only one.

gehayi June 4 2010, 02:24:12 UTC

Yeah, that one works. But most claims of social experiments are just that--only claims.

ryl June 4 2010, 22:03:39 UTC

There are many more ways it fails, but I didn't want to pick the book back up to find more details.

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ryl June 4 2010, 22:03:02 UTC

Sadly, no.

ladyruby07 June 4 2010, 01:53:05 UTC

I giggled at your review and because of it probably will never pick up this book. I'm like you, I hate crap like that. Only one thing I had to disagree with. There are some working-class people to whom the concept of two weeks notice is also foreign.

ryl June 4 2010, 22:02:46 UTC

But they don't get upset when no one's impressed at their reason for not showing up the next day.

fabricalchemist June 4 2010, 02:10:19 UTC

"prissy bitch goes slumming and whines about it for two hundred and thirty pages."

I couldn't have said it any better myself.