the consumer culture book sounds good... its amazing how much advertising stuff is shoved into every little thing. i mean... a few weeks ago i was watching an old (early 80s) movie, and in it the characters were carrying around generic beer. and it wasn't because the characters were broke and had to buy "generic" beer, it was just not done to put name brands in there. now sometimes you see a movie and it seems to just be a vehicle for the advertisers. crazy.
ooo autobiography of a geisha sounds great! i think that's gonna end up on my to-read list
re: lisa see - don't you hate it when an author is so spotty in their writing? some stuff is spectacular and then you read something else and you're thinking 'what the hell happened here??' i still haven't gotten to snow flower and the secret fan but i will read it one of these days :)
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the consumer culture book sounds good... its amazing how much advertising stuff is shoved into every little thing. i mean... a few weeks ago i was watching an old (early 80s) movie, and in it the characters were carrying around generic beer. and it wasn't because the characters were broke and had to buy "generic" beer, it was just not done to put name brands in there. now sometimes you see a movie and it seems to just be a vehicle for the advertisers. crazy.
ooo autobiography of a geisha sounds great! i think that's gonna end up on my to-read list
re: lisa see - don't you hate it when an author is so spotty in their writing? some stuff is spectacular and then you read something else and you're thinking 'what the hell happened here??' i still haven't gotten to snow flower and the secret fan but i will read it one of these days :)
thanks for sharing, as always :)