The Book of Idle Pleasures - Hardcover

Kieran, Dan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0740785087 ISBN 13: 9780740785085

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Pub, 2010

Synopsis

In The Book of Idle Pleasures, the United Kingdom's expert Idlers Tom Hodgkinson and Dan Kieran stand up for the simple pleasures in life . . . by lying down for a nap.

With its tongue firmly in its cheek, The Book of Idle Pleasures renounces our world of ever-growing consumer overload in favor of the timelessly true adage that the best things in life really are free.

Clever and sometimes all too true in its reflections on 100 simple pastimes--among them slouching, skipping stones, staring out the window, doodling, and, natch, taking a nap--The Book of Idle Pleasures is a charming celebration of simple pleasures for the sake of pleasure itself, making it a soothing antidote for our nonstop culture and an ideal restorative against the costly confusion of our daily existence.

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Review:

"At its best, the book has a delightful tone of foppish grandeur, achieving without much fuss a kind of phenomenological intensity in entries such as "Walking Back Home Drunk" or "Poking the Fire". Remember, too, that most things are improved with "a cup of smouldering tea", on which note I must leave you, as the kettle has just boiled" (Guardian)

Book Description:

The Cloudspotter's Guide meets The Dangerous Book for Boys in this charming celebration of the simple things in life

About this edition

• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Pub
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0740785087
• ISBN 13: 9780740785085
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 203
• Editor: Hodgkinson Tom
• Illustrator: Wells Ged