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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
It's brilliant. If you like the photos on the blog, this is a great chance to get to pore over them in close up. I guess more commentary might be good but there's a lot of thought provoking shots in here. Lovely.
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A very very readable discussion of the wedding industry and its propaganda. From the perspective of someone who was planning a wedding, and freaking out about the craziness (cost, pressure, families etc), then it gave a very useful perspective on how lots of people make lots of money by creating and maintaining social pressures. It's certainly not an anti-marriage tone, but does make you think about the distortions of weddings.
I'm giving 4 rather than 5 stars because I think the book would have benefited from more of a perspective from the brides/bridegrooms tied up in the whole thing.
A really thoughtful, wry dissection of some powerful cultural mores - much… Read more
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This is such a charming, warm book - I also found it laugh out loud funny. It explains how the author became drawn into karaoke singing, how it became the bedrock of his social life, how it made him change and evolve (build confidence, meet women etc). He then goes on a bit of a voyage of discovery (meets the inventor, meets the people who produce backing tracks etc) to get a big more of a backstory about how this phenomenon took off.
The author's been covered in quite a few online places (Salon, the Guardian), if you want to find out more before you buy.
This is the kind of book this is: I re-read it recently when I was feeling pretty down - and it cheered me… Read more
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