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Barry Schwartz: The Paradox of Choice (Paperback, 2005, Harper Perennial) 3 stars

In the spirit of Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock, a social critique of our obsession with …

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1 star

Hated it. It rambled on and on. The first few chapters are just endless example lists of items that we apparently have too many options of. I got that point after a few pages. I didn't need a third of the book to drive the point home. I usually don't like to speed read, but I ended up doing so to try to get through the rest of the book as I hate to not finish things. It didn't get any better. Eventually I had to laugh at myself for reading it in the first place. I didn't find anything profound in these pages and a doubt you will either. I also disagreed with and was put off by what seemed like an anti-free market undertone. I'll keep my choice. In this case, my choice was to not finish the book.