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kevreads's review
informative
reflective
medium-paced
3.5
At its strongest when Diamond digs into the history of the suburbs, and the artists and artistic traditions that emerged from them. Equally compelling are the more philosophical meditations on the role of the suburbs in human social lives and sociological development.
Slows down when it drifts into autobiography—which at times can feel a bit more navel-gazey than I was necessarily looking for and felt like a distraction from the books strengths—but as a product of the suburbs himself, I can’t imagine this book or the strengths of its thoughtful ruminations on the suburbs existing without said autobiography, so in the end they don’t ultimately detract from the book over all, just complicate it.
1000% recommend reading this is you’re interested in human connection, art, and how our sense of place is constructed no matter where we find ourselves.
Slows down when it drifts into autobiography—which at times can feel a bit more navel-gazey than I was necessarily looking for and felt like a distraction from the books strengths—but as a product of the suburbs himself, I can’t imagine this book or the strengths of its thoughtful ruminations on the suburbs existing without said autobiography, so in the end they don’t ultimately detract from the book over all, just complicate it.
1000% recommend reading this is you’re interested in human connection, art, and how our sense of place is constructed no matter where we find ourselves.
marisannouncement's review
3.0
This was not as informative as I had hoped. The middle ~40% had much more information about movies and music than I cared to know
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