Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work

this review was more interesting than the book http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2009/06/22/090622crat_atlarge_sanneh?currentPage=all

while i appreciate the anecdotes that promote self-reliance and the importance of “blue collar jobs”, the rest of a book was a snooze-fest of elaborations on points that felt like they were made over and over again. pair that with some disagreeable takes on social politics and you end up with a book that seems more interested in confirming the biases of it's expected reader than breaking itself down to its most important parts. then again, if it were to do that, this would've just been a pretty decent article or essay.

I thought it was pretty good. Different from the books I normally read and I did get bogged down a couple of times, but overall I thought it was an interesting, valuable read.