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Rob Walker’s “Buying In: The Secret Dialog Between What We Buy And Who We Are” might not seem, at first, to have much in common with a book about Celine Dion. But when that book is “Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey To The End Of Taste,” by Carl Wilson, it really does. “Buying In” is about the ways that people assign meaning to consumer objects and use them to define themselves - and whether the phenomenon of consumerist identity is a good thing. &l... More ...