Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost And Found In New York's Underground Economy (2013)

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Author

Sudhir Venkatesh

Genre

History & Biography

Rating

3.28 of 5 Votes: 1

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ISBN

1594204160 (ISBN13: 9781594204166)

Language

English

Publisher

Penguin Press HC, The

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About book Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost And Found In New York's Underground Economy (2013)

Minus one star for losing me at the end but overall, it rocked my world. I've since decided that my resolution for 2015 is to read more non-fiction. Because sometimes non-fiction is the bomb. And you learn shit. Also, this really made me miss college. As an anthro major, all I read was ethnographies and I just really love that style of writing, maybe that's why I like travel books so much. A good writer, but the book itself was a little weak. Mostly about prostitutes in NYC, mixed in with some stuff about coke dealers, and a little bit about the porn business and strip clubs, and a lot about his own issues and then some more about academics and the field of sociology. All interesting topics but a little too mixed up together. Actually, if he wasn't such a good writer this would have been crap, but I'd give it 3.5 stars if that was possible.