Courtney Lundy Lundy থেকে Curteni 547568, Romania
In this futuristic satire, you'll be entertained, but you won't give a crap about anyone... Except maybe the talking beaver.
Mmmmmm...a book about food! She has a great way of making the book about a whole lot more than food, but all about food at the same time. And she is funny. All three of her books make up a great memoir and tale of her life as she grew up and into the great foodie she is today.
A familiar stranger came into my life last year... he pulled one after another of the power games Stout details in her book... at first I could not even open this book, recommended to me by my physician, because it was eerily and creepily too real for me. Once I did though, I couldn't put it down. Martha Stout describes this kind of person (and the individual I knew) so thoroughly that it is altogether frightening. I did not believe such people exist... now I know first hand that they do. Reviewers who pan this book have clearly never been taken in by a sociopath (or they haven't realized it), or they would realize how chillingly cunning and methodical the remorseless are in their games. Ultimately the book is hopeful, giving us two things: the tools to recognize the sociopaths among us (beware crocodile tears that seem to be turned on and off at will, and the overplaying of the "pity" card), and the comfort that the numbers and actions of those who do have a conscience by far outweigh the numbers of the conscienceless.