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Want Not (2013)

by Jonathan Miles(Favorite Author)

3.76 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0547352204 (ISBN13: 9780547352206)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

review 1: Miles writing style is so engaging that I did not want to complete the reading of this book. The three stories all dealing with waste, or not, are endearing re their characters as well as the style. Perhaps, the best writing is in a latter scene...SPOILER...when Alexis goes through the excruciating pain of labor. Love the Freeganism sections- and Dave was a riot as well, but it's the writing that drew me in again and again.
review 2: Ambitious, but not successful, Want Not tries unpacking the ways in which we are all brought low by the cycle of commodification that is ever present in a consumer society. It also allows for the truth that fanaticism (a.k.a fundamentalism) even in the world of do-gooder-ness, or freeganism in this case, can wreak havoc. The ideas ... moreare sound and worthy of a sounding board, a struggle anyone of thoughtful ilk has wrestled with, how best to live within, or without, a culture that is not sustainable, or good for humanity. Sadly the plots' turns and twists are far too tidy to equal much of a simulacrum for the ways in which these characters would do, and undo themselves in the harsher bounds of "real" life. less

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