This book has some important qualities. Above all, it highlights the urgency of our current situation: the blind greed of financial speculation is predictably leading us to an economic and social meltdown (comparable in size to those of others in what the author perceives as an 80-year cycle, the last being the 1930's crash). The book contributes many valuable elements. Hiowever, I have given it only three stars because (i) it irritatingly concentrates on America (the rest of the world could go to hell if AMERICA came through alright; also some misplaced narcissicism and poersonal anecdotes (ii) it is irritatingly disorganized, flitthing from one subject to another and not really following through properly; (iii) the weakest section is the end: "what can be done?" - nothing much, it seems...

Coming Apart is a fact-based assessment of the dysfunction that afflicts middle- and lower-class white America, especially its males. If you want to understand the deeper currents shaping modern America--beyond blind partisan politics and deep divisions over social issues--this is a must-read. I don't buy Murray's obsession with America's presumed core traditional values as the standard against which to measure white America's slide, but I applaud his presentation of the current problems.

I used it on a Ubuntu machine running Windows 98 under Vbox. No problems. Will do the same thing again next year.

I have been looking into getting a VG Shark Fin for my Jeep for a while. After buying and receiving it this week, I wonder what took me so long to get it. The color match is perfect and it is a great quality piece. Definitely worth it with essentially no change in reception that i've noticed.

used it for 4 hours and my one year problem with shoulder tendinitis disappeared (before I was not able to do much with the arm)