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leave me alone, I'm reading
leave me alone, I'm reading rated it 13 years ago
The first few chapters were inspiring - the history of our crappy, ancient grid and how it has been manipulated makes me want to build a compost toilet pronto.But once the author got past the Key West off-grid island, it just became a drag. The people he interviewed seemed a little wackadoodle.....a...
rosemaryknits
rosemaryknits rated it 13 years ago
Not at all what I was expecting. I guess I was looking forward to something a little more How-to, as food for thought, but this is a presentation of a variety of different people who live off the grid, and how and why they do.The author's style leaves much to be desired, in my opinion. He presents...
popsiclesinbed
popsiclesinbed rated it 14 years ago
Some parts of this book are really interesting and well done, and others, especially toward the end are so sloppy I wondered why Rosen put them in at all. Overall, a neat look at people who are living off the grid for one reason or another (though those with religious or privacy reasons get the slop...
simmo
simmo rated it 16 years ago
I enjoyed it. Nick Rosen travels around the country finding out about people who live ‘Off-Grid’, or nearly off-grid. Most informative. Lots of ideas.
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