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Meghan Daum's first book, the essay collection My Misspent Youth, was written with effortless humor and excoriating insight. This was a writer who made fun of everything, most especially herself. Humor and self-knowledge infuse her debut novel, The Quality of Life Report. Fans of Daum's essays probably know that her unworkable, expensive New York lifestyle led her to move to the Midwest. Same goes for the fictional Lucinda Trout, a New York TV producer who, while on assignment, falls in love with the town of Prairie City. Daum, with typical acuity, is wise to her character's real motivations for moving to the country: she wants to be a better person, and believes the Midwest will do the trick: "This was, after all, serious country. The real heartland, the plains. It was Willa Cather-novel serious. It was Sissy Spacek-movie serious and documentary-film-about-poor-conditions-in-meat-packing-plants-serious." Lucinda soon discovers that she's not immune to the less-than-perfect aspects of Prairie City living, and acquires a boyfriend of questionable hygiene and judgement; a rambling, isolated farmhouse that looks like the set to a Sam Shepard movie but is impossible to heat; and a tanning-bed tan and a set of false nails that are the region's signature style. The plot of the novel unwinds rather messily, and Daum doesn't always seem in control of her material. But she never lets Lucinda off the hook, and that's the key to the book's success. Daum has given her heroine a voice that is prickly, a little ruthless, and lovably vulnerable all at once. We don't always respect Lucinda, but we're pretty sure we'd be friends with her. --Claire Dederer
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Meghan Daum's unforgettable debut novel brings her sharp wit and courageous social commentary to the story of Lucinda Trout, a New York television reporter in search of greener pastures. Moving to the slower- paced, friendly, and vastly more affordable Midwestern town of Prairie City, Lucinda zealously creates a series of televised reports for her New York audience about her newfound quality of life. But when Lucinda falls for eccentric local Mason Clay, her naïveté about the real world leads her down an unexpected path, where she encounters, among other things, a drafty old farmhouse filled with children, an ever-growing menagerie of farm animals, and the harshest winter the region has seen in twenty years. In other words, simplicity just isn't as simple as it is cracked up to be, and "quality of life," Lucinda learns, is much more complicated than she ever imagined.
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A Funny Account That Fails as a Strong Novel.......2007-05-29
I enjoyed this book although, as others have pointed out, not half as much as her essay collection. And therein lies the problem: Daum is a gifted, at times brilliant writer with some beautiful insights and compelling, often heartbreaking, at times hilarious observations. I could read one essay from her after the other about virtually any topic and never get bored. However, is she a fiction writet? Not really.
This book is about 80% Telling and 20% Showing. Worse, the Telling sections, which dominate, are told pretty much the way Daum writes essays, making it almost impossible to get under the skin of Lucinda, her problems, NY, the Midwest, or any of the other characters. And the Showing parts, which are so few, since creating and sustaining a fiction scene is clearly not her forte, never delve as deep as they should. I always got the feeling that as soon as Daum--thankfully, I thought--opened up a scene and allowed us to "see" things, she abruptly stopped. Here, the intellect as opposed to the gut or the heart wins out and it's exhausting.
For example, why are we, as readers, supposed to believe Lucinda really falls in love with Mason? We first "spot" him enigmatically in the park, seen from Lucinda's very movie-biased eyes and the, wham, they're together! Not conneciton, no emotion, no magic--nothing to justify the relationship except rationalizations from, of course, Lucinda's own mouth. Therefore, when we find out he's turned to meth and their relationship sours, why should we care?
Basically, either Daum should stick to non fiction essays or she should hone her fiction skills. As it stands, this book would NEVER have been published had she not become well-known first. Just goes to show what cowards most people in the publishing world are!
Felt like I was reading a draft.......2006-12-10
I wanted to, but I didn't love this book. Here's why:
1. Watery. I felt like I was reading a draft. The relationship between our protagonist Lucinda Trout (a 29 yo New Yorker who moves to the Midwest ostensibly to create slice-of-life reports for the a.m. TV show for which she works) and her boyfriend Mason seems ... translucent. Lucinda states things that come out of the left field to the reader. For example, when Lucinda claims to have fallen in love, it didn't make sense. As a reader, I hadn't yet met her boyfriend. I mean, I'd heard Lucinda talk about him. But I hadn't seen them interact. To make their relationship (and to an extent, her experience in the Midwest) real, Daum needed to
a. Condense, hone, refine. Enough with the repeat-y peat peat.
b. Show, not tell. More dialogue. More dramatic intrigue. More action, less narration.
2. NYCentric. Perhaps, as a woman who was born & raised in the Midwest, my radar was atwitter on this topic, but Daum assumed that her readers were all Manhattanites. Which, as a Midwesterner, I found condescending. Again, this problem could have been solved by a more elegant use of dialogue, e.g., phone calls to her girlfriends back home. As it is, it seems like Daum wants to tell her readers all the great things she now knows about the Midwest (people use tanning bed and get fake nails and drive trucks, etc.). Well good for you honey. Tell me something I don't know!
That said, I didn't hate this book, either. There were moments of funny, a realistic portrayal of the Midwest (meth addicts are people too, and yes, tanning beds can make you feel just as good as "personal coaches"), and Daum's Trout doesn't take her self to seriously.
One of the few books about the real Midwest.......2006-08-14
As a peripatic Midwesterner who has lived in many places, I'm a little touchy about fictional representations of the heartland. Most urban authors paint Midwestern folks either in peeling whitewash (portraying them as illiterate, inbred yokels) or else in circus colors (creating humorous, folksy characters full of unintentional homespun wit to amuse and delight patronizing readers).
Meghan Daum chooses a far more difficult and rewarding path--she writes supporting characters full of contradictions. The 90,000 "government employees, farmers, academics, insurance salesmen, and assembly-line workers" (etc.) are variously shallow, insightful, generous, and oblivious, just like real Midwesterners--or people from any other region, for that matter. Definitely pick up this book if you want to read about real people in a real (or realistic, at any rate) Midwestern small city.
Quality read... I enjoyed this one and couldn't put it down........2006-07-26
I found this book on the clearance rack at Barnes and Noble. It was only a couple of bucks. I'm glad I picked it up because I enjoyed reading it. The book is essentially about a television reporter based in New York City who ends up moving out to the midwest (Prairie City). She is looking for that "Quality of Life" that so many people in NY and large urban areas yearn for. Cheap rent, lots of open space, relaxation, etc. I can identify. I presently live in NY. I am originally from the midwest. Because I know both NY and the midwest I think the author did a very good job of describing both. Her characters were interesting and I found myself smiling and sometimes, giggling out loud. It is not a comedic novel exactly, but it is humorous at times. Personally, I yearn for the same things that Lucinda yearned for. I hope to be moving out of NY myself. Maybe then I can enjoy a higher quality of life.
The book was well-written and entertaining. There were some plots twists that came along that I didn't predict beforehand. It's always good when you don't see something coming. It means a writer has done their job! I hope Meghan Daum releases more novels and soon! I like her style. If there is one thing I have to pick at, it would be the fact that Lucinda lives in a rent stabilized apartment in NYC at the beginning of the book. Her rent gets increased to $2,100 and she can no longer afford her apartment. First, I'm a real estate appraiser in NY. Second, an increase like that would never happen with someone making her salary (hence the fact that its rent stabilized!)... but overall, good job.
Characters Flat rather than Colorful........2006-06-03
Young New York television reporter moves to the midwest in search of a better quality of life but seems to make all the wrong choices. Some laugh out loud parts, but what are supposed to be quirky characters from both NY and the Midwest seemed flat and unreal to me - and the worst part, mostly unlikable. I couldn't find any redeeming qualities in Lucinda - and toward the end of the book, after all the crap she has been through, says that ashamedly she admits being uninteresting was the truly unacceptable condition. Shallow, shall we say?
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The Human Development Report 2003 discusses the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)--the targets set for reductions in poverty, improvements in health and education, and protection of the environment around the world by the year 2015. In September 2000, world leaders pledged to achieve the MDGs, including the overarching goal of cutting poverty in half by 2015. This report examines the progress made towards reaching these goals on a country-by-country basis. The Human Development Report 2003 also features a wide variety of national development indicators for 174 countries including demographic trends, educational levels, gender disparities, and macroeconomic indicators. It is an important tool in the formulation of government policy.
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Earth Report 2000 is an authoritative guide to the Earth's environment at the turn of the millennium, sponsored by the Competitive Enterprise Institute--called "the best environmental think tank in the nation," by the Wall Street Journal--and written by a collection of the most prestigious environmental researchers. These experts calmly and accurately assess the ecological situation of the planet--on subjects ranging from global warming and ocean water quality to overpopulation and biodiversity. They explain what we do know, what we don't know, and offer sensible, scientific solutions to those real problems we do face. The book has ten chapters, each covering, in depth, a different environmental or health-related issue. These issues were chosen for their topicality (these are ecological problems that are often covered in the major media) and because there is some controversy among scientists about the extent of the problem. Earth Report is a unique book on the environment: written by scientists, but intended to be read by the rest of us.
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EARTH REPORT 2000 re-evaluates the key issues regarding our planet's ecological fitness. It debunks many of the myths of the recent past, and persuasively argues for rethinking our approach to the most critical environmental dilemmas of the next century.
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Indur Goklany.......2006-01-07
I haven't actually read this book I admit, but I wanted to address a few things that the detractors have in mind. First, big government actually harms the environment. Public ownership of lands takes away the private conservation that could otherwise occur. Price floors in the economy are another good example of government waste, as price ceilings take away from the conservation efforts of consumers and price floors create excess supplies, which eventually go to waste, forcing producers to produce even more, which is more taxing on the environment than producing and selling without price floors. Property rights also create incentives for keeping forests clean, as privately owned forests almost never burn due to their owners clearing underbrush and taking personal responsibility for them, as even loggers take care of, set limits on cutting down, and replant land that they privately own moreso than those loggers on private land. Another problem with government is that it catters to conflicting interests. Suppose someone invented a kind of solar power technology that was cost-efficient, capable of massive abundance of energy use, didn't have any emmission whatsoever, but was capable of killing hundreds of people a year, due to misuse or accidents. Government would likely outlaw it even though the technology would stop global warming and potentially save far more lives in the process. The "consumer advocates" get their way instead. The welfare state is another problem as it tends to produce irresponsible breeding due to an unending supply of funds for people. Many people on welfare stopped having so many children after President Clinto himself proposed reform. Also, increased technology in the marketplace and freedomt to try new products creates parenthood planning technologies like condoms, birth control, etc. which have helped slow down and in some cases diminish population in some parts of the world. But THE GOVERNMENT. Well, in many places the government either bans or sets limits on the sale of things like birth control, such as here in the U.S. where you need to get a prescription from a doctor before you can order it. Restrictions on International Trade also prevent cleaner, more environmentally-safe products from being accessed by many people as well. And if you think that government decreased toxing being pumped into the air, well read Idur Goklany's "Clearing the Air" and while you're at it, read "Eco-Nomics" by Richard Stroup. Market Solutions and property rights have always helped out the Environment more such as when Defenders of Wildlife applied the tenets of free market environmentalism to its wolf compensation program, or when World Wildlife Federation had successfully launched the CAMPFIRE program in southern Africa to reward native villagers who conserve elephants or when the Oregon Water Trust uses water markets to purchase or lease water for salmon and steelhead habitats. As for other things, well there is the emerging field of biotechnology, which itself has many environmentally good applications.
Have your kids read this book.......2005-05-11
What a great read. Nothing like a good political book. We rightwingers enjoy books like this because it provides science that we know to be false that we can use to back up our profit-driven agenda through the usual propoganda outlets such as talk radio. For example, in the excellent chapter on Air Quality, the authors talk about whether or not we humans are actually causing the air quality to go down or not. Although we all know that pollution is real, when folks like me own stock in large factories, the financial bottom line is all that matters. If the Big Government puts heavier restrictions on such companies, that means their costs will go up, and folks like me will lose money in our stock portfolios. Not a good thing. The chapter on Pesticides provides another example of misinformation that we can use on our talk radio shows to make sure the masses will vote Republican. I don't really care if pesticides are hurting people or not; what matters is when I, like Tom Delay, have a vested financial interest in a pesticide company, the last thing I want are the liberal scaremongers causing the government to force us to shut down our companies, causing us more financial losses. It's all about money. And that's why a book like this is such a good thing. Sure, the science is bad and absurd, but it helps us push forward our agenda.
The TRUE state of the planet!!.......2002-05-01
"Earth Report 2000" was written by ten scientists, each with excellent credentials, each writing on a different environmental topic. Here are the ten section titles:
1. Population, Food and Income
2. Pesticides: Increasing Food Supplies While Preserving Biodiversity
3. Global Warming
4. The Coming Age of Abundance
5. Causes and Prevention of Cancer
6. Forests
7. Conserving Biodiversity
8. Water Options
9. Rescuing the Oceans
10. Global Air Quality
It's a tour-de-force of all the important environmental concerns, and paints a much more optimistic scenario than we hear from some environmentalists and politicians. The book was edited by Ronald Bailey, who has also written on the subject in his book,"Eco-Scam: The False Prophets of Ecological Apocolypse."
Ron Bailey was formerly producer of a national PBS series called "Technopolitics." His style is confrontational and expresses more than just skepticism. He points out various statements of some politicians and more extreme environmentalists that suggest they are willing to resort to deception to gain public support for an anti-growth environmental program aimed at the goal of a more egalitarian society. He may be a little TOO confrontational for some readers, but exposure to his points seems to me to be essential for ANYONE to reach an informed view about the environment. I srongly recomment it!!!
Misinformation.......2001-11-29
Ronald Bailey’s dumbed down “Earth Report” is nothing more than vulgar anthropocentrism marketed as feel-good ecology neatly packaged for the McMasses. Actually, even the title of the book is a misnomer. While Bailey’s book is a “report” of sorts, at no point does the author seem to express a sincere or grounded interest in the “earth”.
Perhaps the book's greatest flaw, aside from the curiously misinterpreted statistics and erroneous conclusions, is its perverse avoidance of addressing the spiritual and philosophical issues logically raised when considering mankind’s roll in the natural world. While the book does a good job of inundating readers with all sorts of statistics and corporate-sponsored meditations, Bailey refuses, in a rather disturbingly determined sort of way, to pose the “larger questions”. The result is a book that too often feels intentionally rushed and suspiciously simple.
In Bailey’s worldview nature is a tangible commodity with a value that can fluctuate (...). “Ecology” is seen only as a tool to better manage natural assets to meet corporate and economic needs. This “nature as product” ideology has been practiced by capitalist entities since the industrial revolution, but Bailey’s attempt to bring it to the masses, and the simplistic manner of his presentation presents a new and dangerous trend. Bailey even insists that we should judge a species as “good” or “bad” depending on its relative worth to mankind. For example, Bailey believes that North American white-tail deer are, “dangerous mammals” and “killers” because they have the audacity to stray onto roads and highways where they often cause serious accidents when struck by fast-moving cars and trucks. Not only do these deer/vehicle collisions cause human fatalities, they ALSO result in over 1 billion dollars worth of insurance claims annually. To Bailey this represents a prime example of poor asset management (the deer of course being the poorly managed asset). Bailey never once considers that the massive deer overpopulation (which has logically increased the risk of deer/vehicle collisions) may have something to do with reduced deer habitat and the almost complete annihilation of the white-tail deer’s natural predators (courtesy of mankind).
Bailey’s disarmingly pronounced hubris in “Earth Report” is matched only by his inane insistence that there aren’t even any real ecological issues at all (at least in the “green” sense)! Counter arguments are seen as radical and suspicious.
The technocrat-friendly ideas presented by Ronald Bailey in “Earth Report” are not only arrogant and misguided, they are downright dangerous. Bailey’s subtle and consistent suggestion that all is really well in the world, may just cost us that, the world.
A different ideology but one to take into account.......2001-08-01
TANSTAAFL - It's just that simple.
This acronym, meaning "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch" is at the heart of this book- understanding and embracing it not as a phylosophy, but as a law of the universe.
Earth Report contributors understand that there is absolutely nothing in this world that comes without some cost. This understanding helps them make suggestions that encourage using laws of supply and demand to improve our economy.
Overfishing: There is always a cost to fishing. When no one is responsible for absorbing the costs of fishing, the cost is in the fish resources- populations of fish dwindle and we run out of the supply. But if someone has a vested interest in a fishing area, they can pass the cost onto the human economy. Their profits ensure that the area remains sustainable. Healthy fish need a healthy environment. Would you let someone dump toxic waste into your private fishery? Of course not.
Environment: This old topic has been hashed over again and again- usually with people arguing about whether or not humans are responsible for warming. But beyond this is the compelling argument of, "WHo Cares!" What is the cost of trying to stop HUMAN caused global warming? Huge. But we know that in the past, the earth has warmed even more without our help. If we pay the cost to stop human global warming, and natural global warming (or even worse- cooling) occurs, will our crippled economy be able to handle it? Most likely not. There is a real and dangerous cost to limiting our economy- one that this book points out when comparing the affects of natural disasters on robust economies versus weak ones. Any guess which one is more apt to deal with natural disasters?
This book is one sided, and presents one point of view. Read it along with the other information out there and I think you will be well on your way to forming your own opinions.
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The report affirms that knowledge can help the region to expand the scope of human freedoms, enhance the capacity to guarantee those freedoms through good governance and achieve the higher moral human goals of justice and human dignity. It also underlies the importance of knowledge to Arab countries as a powerful driver of economic groeth through higher productivity. It's closing section puts forward a strategic vision for creating knowledge societies on the Arab world built on five pillars: 1. Guaranteeing the key freedoms of opinion, speech and assembly through good governance bounded by the law. 2. Disseminating high quality education for all. 3. Embedding and ingraining science and building and broadening the capacity for research and development across society. 4. Shifting rapidly towards knowledge-based production in Arab socioeconomic structures. 5. Developing an authentic, broadminded and enlightened Arab knowledge model. AHDR 2003 makes it clear that, in the Arab civilization, the pursuit of knowledge is prompted by religion, culture, history and the human will to achieve success. Obstructions to this quest are the defective structures created by human beings - social, economic and above all political. Arabs must remove or reform these structures in order to take the place they deserve in the world of knowledge at the beginning of the knowledge millennium.
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Key issue downplayed.......2005-06-14
There is a great deal of value in this report. However, it does not squarely face the profound problems caused by Arabic diglossia i.e. using Modern Standard Arabic for writing and formal speech and the numerous Arabic "dialects" for normal conversation.
Modern Standard Arabic is based on the Arabic of the Quran and has the same relationship to the spoken forms of Arabic as Classical Latin has to modern French or Italian. The prestige of the language of the Quran in Islam, and the fact that Modern Standard Arabic is similar throughout the Arab world, have combined to support the opinion among many Arabic speakers that their native spoken language is "bad Arabic". Of course, Modern Egyptian or Moroccan Arabic is no more "bad Arabic" than the language of Madrid is bad Latin. The tremendous barrier to education and modernization of diglossia is described in "Language Education and Human Development Arabic diglossia and its impact on the quality of education in the Arab region" http://literacy.org/products/ili/pdf/OP0002.pdf.
An analogous situation was overcome in Europe during the renaissance by the development of the vernaculars as literary vehicles. In all likelihood, something similar will have to happen in the Arab world by either adopting educated spoken Egyptian Arabic as a universal standard or by the development of a few regional standards based on the educated speech of major regional cities.
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The World Development Report 2003 addresses how to lift from poverty the three billion people now living in severe deprivation. It also explores how to improve the quality of life for everybody today and for the two billion more who will join mankind in the next thirty years. Substantial increases in growth and productivity will be necessary to achieve this goal. The current scale of economic activity and speed of change is such that ecosystem and social structures cannot keep up. The Report puts forth two main messages: the first point is that enhancing prosperity and reducing poverty requires better care of the planet's ecosystem and social fabric. And secondly, that stronger collective action at all levels--from local to global--is essential for generating and scaling up the institutions that can transform growth.
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Three billion people will be added to the world ' s population over the next 50 years and 2.8 billion people today already live on less than $2 a day-almost all in developing countries. Ensuring these people have access to productive work and a better quality of life is the core development challenge of the first half of this century. Growth could itself be jeopardized over the longer term, unless a transformation of society and the management of the environment are addressed integrally with economic growth. Now in its 25th edition, this year ' s World Development Report examines, over a 50 year period, the relationship between competing policy objectives of reducing poverty, maintaining growth, improving social cohesion, and protecting the environment. The World Development Report 2003 emphasizes that many good policies have been identified but not implemented due to distributional issues and barriers to developing better institutions. The Report reviews institutional innovations that might help overcome these barriers and stresses that ensuring economic growth and improved management of the planet ' s ecosystem requires a reduction in poverty and inequality at all levels: local, national, and international. As in previous years, the report contains an appendix of selected indicators from the World Development Indicators.
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From the Atlantic to the Gulf, people -- women, men and children -- are the real wealth and hope of Arab countries. Policies for development and growth in the Arab region must focus on freeing people from deprivation, in all its forms, and expanding their choices. Over the last five decades, remarkable progress has been achieved in advancing human development and reducing poverty. However, much still needs to be done to address the backlog of deprivation and imbalance. Since 1990, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has been providing (and Oxford University Press has been publishing) annual Human Development Reports that set out the basic social and economic indicators for the nations of the world. The Arab Human Development Report 2002, published this summer by the UNDP's Regional Bureau of Arab States (RBAS), is the first regional report of its kind. Focusing exclusively on the Arab world, the Report carefully dissects and analyzes the region's strengths and failings and explains why the region has fallen behind so much of the world. Written by a team of elite Arab intellectuals and policymakers, the Report concludes that the Arab world today is a civilization bypassed by global trade, democracy, technology, and by women's rights. Scrutinizing the 22 member states of the Arab League and their 280 million people, the Report argues that the root cause for Arab underdevelopment is threefold - three deficits: a deficit of freedom, a deficit of women's rights, and a deficit of knowledge. The Report probes the causes of these deficits and identifies three areas where Arab institutional structures are hindering performance and crippling human development: governance, women's empowerment, and knowledge.
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