- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Macmillan (20 Jun 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0230712215
- ISBN-13: 978-0230712218
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 13.2 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 255,808 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A brilliantly entertaining polemic about the need to embrace risk, and live your life to the full
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We live in a society governed by Fear. Packets of peanuts ‘may contain nuts’, our children are locked away safe indoors, and we are encouraged to fear risks that previous generations took for granted. The result is a temptation never to leave the house. How to Live Dangerously is a sane, straight-talking, wonderfully entertaining manifesto that assesses the real risks of modern-day life*, and encourages us to embrace a new freedom in the way we live. Sometimes, sh1t happens – but you may as well get out there and enjoy yourself while you can because, in the end, you’re a long time dead. *Don’t like your children much? You’d have to lock them out of the house every day for 186,000 years before they were abducted (and even then you’d get them back within 24 hours) *Afraid of flying? If you really want to die in a plane crash, you’ll need to take a flight a day for the next 26,000 years . . .
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
What a fabulous book!
Invest a few short hours in reading this book, and you can challenge your fears . The statistics are pertinent, never get boring, and help put in context the fears that shape our lives. I was surprised just how many fears I recognised, and how many I needed to just let go.
Highly recommended!
Invest a few short hours in reading this book, and you can challenge your fears . The statistics are pertinent, never get boring, and help put in context the fears that shape our lives. I was surprised just how many fears I recognised, and how many I needed to just let go.
Highly recommended!
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
In a similar vein to the book Freakonomics, How to Live Dangerously is a wonderful book whose power lies in making you think. It's a "take a step back" look at modern life, and perhaps it's most potent theme is that taking risks often makes life safer.
If you're one of those people who gets annoyed at the "may contain nuts" warning on peanuts, or know somebody who won't let their children out of the house in case they get kidnapped [apparantly, you'd have to lock them out of the house every day for 186,000 years before they were abducted (and even then you'd get them back within 24 hours)], you'll want this book.
If you're one of those people who gets annoyed at the "may contain nuts" warning on peanuts, or know somebody who won't let their children out of the house in case they get kidnapped [apparantly, you'd have to lock them out of the house every day for 186,000 years before they were abducted (and even then you'd get them back within 24 hours)], you'll want this book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is not just an entertaining read.
It puts our present world - our personal space if you wish - into perspective, particularly with regard to 20 to 30 years ago and our present danger.
Danger, which if we're not careful, will kill us by not taking charge of our own lives and space, but allowing others (legislators etc.) to do it for us.
My title of this reveiw says it all - Read this book - then go out and start living again, instead of hiding and vegetating...
Graham
It puts our present world - our personal space if you wish - into perspective, particularly with regard to 20 to 30 years ago and our present danger.
Danger, which if we're not careful, will kill us by not taking charge of our own lives and space, but allowing others (legislators etc.) to do it for us.
My title of this reveiw says it all - Read this book - then go out and start living again, instead of hiding and vegetating...
Graham
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