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I loved the premise and I was excited about the book, however I did not enjoy the narrative style at all. Did not pass the midpoint
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It is about symmetry, more like having a share of the harm, paying a penalty if something goes wrong. The
“In a New York where people are reconceived as consumers, not citizens, it is most profitable to keep everyone moving and disconnected. This is what the hyper-globalized, ultracompetitive city looks and feels like. I saw the perfect word for it scrawled on a wall in the East Village: blandalism. Sleepwalking inside digital bubbles, the iZombies hustle through the city without looking. And you can’t really have compassion for a thing—or a person—without beholding it.”
― Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul
― Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul
“Unlike traditional retailers, Amazon returned few unsold books, often less than 5 percent. The big book chains regularly returned 40 percent of all the books they acquired from publishers, for full refunds,”
― The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
― The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Daniel Blazquez’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Daniel Blazquez’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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