waste of money avoided

I was looking at this book in Chapters the other just before my recent vacation: The European Dream by Jeremy Rifkin. But, I thought, this guy could be some crank who cobbled together the book from a variety of loosely tied together facts and some twisting here and there of new economic data. After reading this, this and this am I glad that I opted for Fast Food Nation and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time instead. If you love math, which I do in a very platonic way, you really should read the latter book