- Paperback: 136 pages
- Publisher: Pow Books (1 July 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1903376009
- ISBN-13: 978-1903376003
- Product Dimensions: 26.8 x 21 x 1.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 966,232 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A strange and beautiful book,
By A Customer
This review is from: Book of Pages (Paperback)
This is a weird and lovely book. It's one of those really rare things - an arty sort of book that's technically spot on. And although it highlights the complications that technology introduces, it manages never to sound complaining; the message came across to me was "this *is* where we are heading - get ready for it!"Beautiful artwork, a unique physical feel, plenty of self-reference, and a strong impression of numeracy and thoughtfulness, this is a book I'd strongly recommend to anyone who likes to wonder about how technology is shaping us.
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Thought provoking fun,
By A Customer
This review is from: Book of Pages (Paperback)
This is a truly brilliant book! It's a subtle mickey-take of modern society, poking fun at the importnace of technology in our lives and our depenence upon machines. It is wonderfully and very cleverly illustrated ..., on really nice paper.Jiriki doesn't do much, but the story is really more about what he sees and learns than what he does. A few of the pages are very Zen, some of them are very clever and all of them are amusing in some way or another. Everything I've read by the Beholder guys and David leave me feeling really impressed with their work, and this is definitely no exception. This book is more than a story - every page is a work of art and the book itself is a work of art too. Reading it made me pleased that I'd bought the book as well as being pleased wth it's contents. This book isn't just something you'll want to read - it's something you'll want to own. Buy it!
1 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Have all your preconceptions confirmed!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Book of Pages (Paperback)
This is definitely a Western-sentimentalist view of Dharma. Taken as a standard Dharma text, this is toe curlingly, cringingly awful. Taken as a commentary on modern society, it is merely shallow. However, when viewed from an ironic or even satirical perspective, you may find it amusing.Immediately the authors present us with a standard cliché - the "little monk", Jiriki. Why is it always a "little monk", rather than some big, robust fellow overflowing with life and Dharma? Anyway, this bald headed, bug-eyed, pencil-necked little caricature leaves the dusty confines of his monastery to explore the big wide world. Along the way he encounters interesting people and situations. However, his response to these events is less than enlightened. In fact, he seems to wander around with a bad smell under his nose. Where he encounters richness, he sees only chaos and squalor. Where he encounters people in need of compassion and wisdom, he meets them with confusion and distaste. We begin to see that this poor fellow can't see beyond the rigid reality filters imposed on him by his monastic upbringing. So instead of looking and learning - he just can't seem to see beyond his own preconceptions. Finally, he returns to the monastery with all of his preconceptions about the world confirmed. But this is hardly suprising, as instead of venturing forth with courage and openness, he never really deviated from his own safe and narrow view.
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