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Eliya Reign eliyarainy — Do you love white picket fences? Do you love tract housing? Do you love the history of commuting? Then this book is for you. This book is really for anyone who has ever lived in suburbia, scorned suburbia, or wants to live in suburbia. It really is the most complete historical account of American suburbs. It's tremendously lively; there is plenty of sex and rock n'roll in Jackson's narrative. Learn about walking cities, the Great Depression, and ornamental lawns! (It's really more interesting than I'm making it sound). Just the fact that Jackson can connect these subjects makes it a book worth reading: horsecars, Frederick Law Olmsted, country clubs, cable cars, drive-in food, shopping malls, the Model T, front porches, air conditioning, and video games. He predicts that surburbanization will slow as gentrification of cities increases. However, what this could mean is no cheap housing for anybody, I suspect. A very worthwhile read.

Grace Milas gracemilasdesign — My hope was that after reading this book, I would curb my impulsivea/needless spending habits. Instead, all I learned was that if and when I get a lot of money, I should share it in soulful ways.

Karina Limon darkroomindustriesa9 — I think many people would find a lot to dislike about this book - why should we care if a privileged woman in NYC finds happiness when there are so many people truly in despair? And I certainly had those thoughts while I was reading it. But it also gave you a lot to think about in your own life - how you approach situations, what you truly believe in, how you can change your own behavior or the way you interact with others. I buy very few books these days but I am actually toying with buying this one, because I think it is a book I will want to look back at over time.

Andrian Design andriandesignstudio — I picked this up at a used bookstore, not from any feelings about Martha Stewart one way or the other, but because it's fascinating to me how someone (especially a woman who comes from working class roots) achieves success and power. I have never watched one of her shows or read one of her books. While she was teaching women how to be all la di da in the eighties and nineties, I was doing the ordinary, down to earth homemaking, cooking, baking, decorating and raising kids in my own way. I never found Martha's over the top ways at all appealing, so just tuned her out. When she went to prison over insider trading, I felt like she had been picked on for being a woman. But after reading this biography using countless interviews and quotes from people close to her, I am thinking she did okay for someone who has made her fortune through cheating others, lying, breaking contracts, intimidating and abusing employees, and all the other stuff that apparently went on behind the pretty, smiling face. I gave it only 3 stars because altho it was a juicy read, it was just too much. I got so tired of hearing about this woman. What a sicko. What a con artist. I am sure she deserved much more than her year in white-collar prison, and I'm convinced that anything bad that happens to her in the twilight years of her life (she turned 70 this year) will not even be close to the punishment that she deserves. By the time I was done with this book I kept thinking of another one on my to-read list -- The Sociopath Next Door.

Ypei Teh hefee03 — While reading this historical novel I can never get over how cruel people are as we read of the brutal deaths. I enjoyed all the stories of the people through the years. A novel I did not think I would finish because of the size of the book but strangely could not stop reading once I got into it,