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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
By KC
This is the best edition of The Idler. Past editions have been fragmented and one needed to rummage through each edition to find the good stuff. This one takes the whole concept to a far higher level. It is more joined up and gains focus as a result. The Idler at it's best is entertaining, persuasive and polemical. This delivers on all levels. Not just a good read but a volume one can return to.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By C. Graham
Just wonderful. I have read other Idlers, but this is the best so far. Lovely cloth cover and quality paper pages. Great essays encouraging you to live and to have the courage to let go of the slavish daily slog. Inspiring. Buy it!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
I have had Idlers before, but stopped a couple of years ago as I thought it had run out of ideas. The new format, a bit more formal and serious, is what I was after. It still has light hearted elements, but is much more philosophical, and has a balance of contributors (not just one sided polemic and diatribe). The new style of printing (on high qulaity paper) and binding (in hard back with plain cloth cover) reflects the slight move up market, and I'd be much happier to read this on the train rather than a picture of a cucumber being massaged between two boobs (a previous cover).
All in all a good book to stimulate thoughts about a more idle life, and a better life. And an improvement on the previous incarnation.
All in all a good book to stimulate thoughts about a more idle life, and a better life. And an improvement on the previous incarnation.
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This is an excellent book! Packed with interesting essays about how we should be living our lives (but not written in a patronizing fashion like so much of literature today) -... Read more
Published on 4 Jun 2010 by Archie
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Fantastic
Fantastic. Book of essays and conversations to make you think. Good for dipping in and out of. Alternative visions and ideas for childcare, economics, living, health etc .... Read more
Published on 3 Aug 2009 by curly mills
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