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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Orion; New Ed edition (7 Jan 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0752864416
  • ISBN-13: 978-0752864419
  • Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.2 x 3.2 cm
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'A friendly and intelligent guide... with a light mix of well-researched historic trivia and contemporary statistics. [Honore's] anecdotes and self-deprecating humour convey the pleasure and reward that he experienced on his slow pilgrimage.' (THE ECONOMIST )

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4.0 out of 5 stars This will make you rethink your relationship with time!, 13 May 2004
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This review is from: In Praise of Slow: How a Worldwide Movement Is Challenging the Cult of Speed (Hardcover)
An award-winning Canadian journalist advocates living a slower, more measured existence, in virtually every area, a philosophy he defines as 'balance.'

Honoré's personal wake-up call came when he began reading one-minute bedtime stories to his two-year-old son in order to save time. The practice dramatized how he, like most of the world, was caught up in a speed culture that probably began with the Industrial Revolution.

The author explores, in convincing and skillful prose, a quiet revolution known as 'the slow movement,' which is attempting to integrate the advances of the information age into a lifestyle that is marked by an 'inner slowness' that gives more depth to relationships with others and with oneself. Although there is no official movement, Honoré credits Carol Petrini, an Italian culinary writer and founder of the slow food movement in Italy, with spearheading the trend to using fresh local foods, grown with sustainable farming techniques that are consumed in a leisurely manner with good company.

The author also explores other slow movements, such as the practice of Tantric sex (mindful sexual union as a road to enlightenment), complementary and alternative medicine, new urbanism and the importance of leisure activities like knitting, painting and music.

For the overprogrammed and stressed, slow and steady may win the race.

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars In Praise of Slow, 1 Oct 2006
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I read "In Praise of Slow" earlier this year after a chance meeting with it in a bookshop in my town; and I can say with absolute certainty that it is the only book that I have read that has changed my entire outlook on life. That alone is sufficient to give it a rating of five stars. How then has it changed me?
It has changed me by allowing me to understand its message: do not do as much as you can as fast as you can. If this strikes you as common sense, then you probably belong to the category of people who do not need to read the book but would nonetheless enjoy it. It is perhaps a problem for books such as this that it is only people with at least a glimmering notion of the light that it reflects who will bother to read it; some people will "not have time to read it" because they are so busy.
The book is not about taking everything slowly (I wonder whether I ought to repeat that), but about taking everything at the right speed. In our twenty-first-century world we are more often going too fast than too slow, so the book will inevitably concentrate on slowing down. There is a difference which not all previous reviewers seem to have noticed between "slow", adjective, and "Slow", social movement: it is the latter with which this book is concerned.
The right speed: the "Tempo Giusto". I am a musician, so the pages of the book that discussed this were of particular interest to me. I had not come across a "Tempo Giusto" movement before, though I had come across the term. It means either "just or exact rhythm" or "the speed that the style of the music demands (usually Moderato)" (The Oxford Companion to Music). The phrase is not used very often in the context of music as a tempo designation, because it does not convey any information to the musician: "at the right speed"; no composer is going to instruct the player to play the music "at the wrong speed", or almost no composer. And taking it to mean merely what it says, and not implying "moderato", a fast tempo is appropriate for an allegro piece, and a slow tempo for an andante. The idea of "Tempo Giusto" is appropriate not only in music but in all aspects of life.
Read this book Slowly; take your time; enjoy it. You will not be wasting your time. I hope you will have deleted that expression from your vocabulary by the time you finish reading "In Praise of Slow".
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4.0 out of 5 stars Really not that bad ..., 27 April 2005
Taking into account the other review which states that this book is a bit lightweight and not worth bothering with, I would have to say it is not really that bad.
It is certainly not an acacdemic or philosphical book on the benefits of slow living, nor is it an anthropological approch to it.
What it is, and what is does well is to introduce the 'slow movement' in an easy to read jounalistic style.
If you want an easy reading and quite interesting account of the ideals and methods of 'slow movements' then this is a book for you. If you want philosphical and critical analysis, then this book is lacking in that field.
For the price, it is an interesting read...
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