House Lust: America's Obsession With Our Homes
by:
Daniel McGinn (author)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B009BV8A24
Publish date: January 8th 2008
Publisher: Crown Business
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
Written before the recent collapse in housing prices -- he does address the beginning of the slide -- this book examines in detail the mad lust for housing makeovers and insatiable desire for people to build better and more upscale with concomitant problems. Fueled by TV shows and channels devoted t...
I should love this thing -- we've spent the past 3 years bubble-sitting, trawling zillow.com and waiting for this house mania to end. But this book suffers from a depressing lack of self-awareness and the author's attempts at humor are grating and mostly unsuccessful. In fact, his commiseration with...
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