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(More customer reviews)Every city has its "old guardian" and Mr. Berger is someone who makes a living playing this role. These old guardians don't want their cities to change and don't want anyone to move there.
I really wanted to like this book because I like social commentaries especially humorous self-reflection about the place and culture of where I live. While the book had some good commentaries to it, it became page after page of rants about Seattle's growth, its influx of yuppies and its loss of what it once was.
What it boils down to is Mr. Berger's relentless rants about how we should slow Seattle's natural growth. The book's chapters are primarily from columns he has written in Seattle Weekly over the years some of which are no longer relevant.
If you're a fan of such old guards you probably will like this book.
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Knute "Skip" Berger's trenchant commentaries in his "Mossback" column for Seattle Weekly, and now Crosscut.com, have made him one of the most popular and prickly figures in Seattle journalism. This book collects the best of those columns on politics, culture, enterprise, and odd local behavior. For anyone who wants to understand the Pacific Northwest through the gimlet eye of Seattle's own "crank with a conscience," this is a must-read.
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