On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] went: > if you are interested in a good read that will persuade you to avoid > fast food restaurants, Eric Schlosser's "Fast Food Nation" is hard > to put down even as it turns your stomach.
I strongly second the recommendation; Schlosser's book is amusing, absorbing, and often disturbing as it moves among many levels of analysis. The viscerally gross information is all in the second half of the book; the first concentrates on historical, cultural, and economic material--and frequently made me laugh out loud (with it, not at it). Very tangentially: I was intrigued by one stray, admittedly untestable observation from Schlosser's book--that with the rise of the automobile as the dominant mode of transportation, architecture "could no longer afford to be subtle," as subtlety is lost on the 70mph passer-by. --David Epstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
