Elizabeth Farrelly

No clear thesis, one long rant filled with evo-psych, pseudo science, gender essentialism, and fat hatred.

This is a hard book to characterize. It has several bad elements. It often reads like a architecture term paper. It is a little more than faintly anti-democratic. It annoyingly (to me) seems to misunderstand the pragmatic possibilities of post-modernism or "relativism". But there are some thought provoking lines about suburban sprawl and (more doubtfully) about the possibilities of dense city life. What this book is not is a "how to" on living simply.