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143 reviews for:
Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America
Alec MacGillis, Stefan Alexander MacGillis
3.9 AVERAGE
143 reviews for:
Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America
Alec MacGillis, Stefan Alexander MacGillis
3.9 AVERAGE
Interesting information about Amazon and its effects on individual communities and the country at large. I didn’t care for the chronology of the book. It made the book feel like a series of somewhat random facts vs an interesting story.
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
informative
slow-paced
as a book 2 stars, with the message 4 stars
this book could be so much shorter
the stories became repetitive and became boring
would be interesting if it saw amazon growing worldwide not just states in US
definitely going to reduce my use in amazon
this book could be so much shorter
the stories became repetitive and became boring
would be interesting if it saw amazon growing worldwide not just states in US
definitely going to reduce my use in amazon
informative
sad
adventurous
informative
reflective
tense
slow-paced
I enjoyed the book and found the topic really interesting.
I really liked that different people and their stories were looked at and were used to make it more personal.
My problems with the book where that one, I do not know that much about the specifics of the politics in America and that it was quite confusing at times even though I learned quite a lot about it. Two, there were a lot of numbers in the book which most of the time was without a reference point so for me personally they were quite abstract at some points, but it could just be a me problem. It also made it kind of slow to read.
But if you want to learn more about America and Amazone, I would recommend you this book.
I really liked that different people and their stories were looked at and were used to make it more personal.
My problems with the book where that one, I do not know that much about the specifics of the politics in America and that it was quite confusing at times even though I learned quite a lot about it. Two, there were a lot of numbers in the book which most of the time was without a reference point so for me personally they were quite abstract at some points, but it could just be a me problem. It also made it kind of slow to read.
But if you want to learn more about America and Amazone, I would recommend you this book.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Classism
Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, Racism
dark
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
If in 20 years I end up teaching about this period of US history, this book about the rise of Amazon goes on the short list of texts I might consider, alongside The Unwinding and Nomadland.
Two and a half stars rounded up. I wasn’t impressed with this one. While the content was somewhat interesting, it lacked a through line - the story jumped between time periods, settings, companies, and people so frequently that I couldn’t keep track. I was also sort of frustrated because the book is marketing itself as being about Amazon - but it’s not really saying all that much about Amazon. I know the author was a reporter in Baltimore and Dayton, and I feel like maybe this book was just a compilation of several articles he had already written. Well-researched, but not what I was looking for.
Eye opening story of how Amazon has come to dominate commerce and drain local communities of resources while privileging a very few cities. I already canceled Prime before reading this, but I’m even more glad I did so now.