The author wants us to question the assumptions we make as consumers about the value of everything. From bottles in a landfill in India to the people who drink the soda in those bottles, Porter analyzes the myriad questions that face each of us as we make decisions about how we spend our time and our material resources. Narrator Walter Dixon infuses these existential questions with a sensitivity that engages readers in pondering answers rather than raising a sense of mounting guilt. As the author points out the connections among pollution, consumption, and personal wealth and examines how individual choice affects our daily behaviors, Dixon makes a familiar theme sound fresh and arresting.
Pub Date: April 12, 2011
Duration: 9 hrs, 30 mins
DD ISBN: 9781596596412
Publisher: Gildan Media
Review Posted Online: Jan. 22, 2026
The readers can't compensate for the unbearably pompous prose style of this extended parable about corporate politics and strategy.
Pub Date: N/A
Duration: 3 hrs
Publisher: Random House Audio
Review Posted Online: Jan. 22, 2026
An engaging experience.
This audiobook deals with everything from the historic investments that led to world-dominating companies, such as the Chinese technology company Tencent, to predicting the products and services of the future. An audiobook of such complexity requires a narrator who can handle the task, and David Thorpe manages it admirably. Thorpe uses his masterly voice, which sits somewhere between that of a BBC World Service presenter and an easy, relaxed Home Counties accent, to guide listeners through a sea of numbers, acronyms, and terms such as YP, RPS, and market cap. Rather than simply reading, Thorpe presents the work with excitement and enthusiasm, and this enjoyment transfers to the listener.
An engaging experience.Pub Date: Feb. 20, 2026
Duration: 13 hrs
DD ISBN: 9781668103425
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Review Posted Online: March 17, 2026
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