Name: Adventures in Capitalism
ISBN: 9780141007953

Toby Litt

This book takes the reader to the epicentre of the consumer world. There are adventures with money, with food, with consumer desirables, with sex. Gap polo necks, Ben & Jerry's, Nintendos, Fiat Puntos and other brand names are featured.

Adventures in Capitalism

Sophie Shrimpton

** spoiler alert **
           A collection of short stories, some pointless, some mediocre and some entertaining.

My favourites:

It Could Have Been Me and It Was was the type of story I expected from the title, and a good intro to the series - though clearly I did not understand most of the outdated references.

Mr Kipling explores the muddled-mind of an elderly man who develops an imagined relationship with a nostalgic yet false brand name. 

Please Use a Basket transforms a tool of the bourgeoisie into a tool of a revolution, both times capitalising on the attractiveness of her averageness

Fuck Gabriel x2. I connected with the postscript on the basis that you are either part of the Zeitgeist or you are observing it - you cannot do both. 

After Wagamama But Mostly Before was a confusing clusterfuck - sorry - emulation of social reality, the shaping and defining of identity by whoever is perceiving it 

And of course it ends with Michel Foucault. Who else could have inspired the Wagadrama

Adventures in Capitalism

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