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Canadian Capitalist
A Canadian Personal Finance Weblog
http://www.canadiancapitalist.com/2008/06/09/book-review-house-lust
Book Review: House Lust
House Lust by Newsweek reporter Daniel McGinn is an eye-opening account of the
obsession that many Americans have for their homes, which first led to one of the
biggest boom in housing prices and later turned into a bust with far-reaching
consequences. A Washington Post columnist quoted in the book probably defined the
term best – “a house or an apartment becomes not just a place of shelter or an
emblem of status or even a considered investment, but an obsession that haunts us
no less intensely than Vladimir Nabokov’s nymphet Lolita tortured the imagination of
poor, sick Humbert”.
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