3.5 really. Interesting take on the sociologies of people and how we prefer to live, yet our town seems to dictate otherwise. Confirms that my little place might just be heaven. Extremely walkable, bikeable, transitable. I see trees out my window rather than skyscrapers. I can sit at just about any coffee shop in my hood and people watch. Now if only I can get my neighbors to tear down those hideous 10 feet tall barricades they call fences so we could actually talk to each other when we garden or play, then maybe they'd realize just how much happier they could be too. The reason I didn't give it 4 or more stars is mainly for the fact of too many asterisks. Seemed like every single sentence had an afterthought. Felt like a huge task to constantly read up and down and up again. So I just stopped reading them altogether by about page 50. It didn't seem to lessen the book in any way, which to me says, he probably didn't need it, his editor asked him to toss it, and he refused (just my thought of course). Either way, it was a bit much.