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Damn! This book just confirms my desire to have Alain de Botton as a friend. What a smart, erudite, witty, unassuming mensch this guy is. With a quirky curiosity that helps him take an interesting perspective on almost any subject he tackles. His previous books shows his willingness to take on quite Leggi tutto

A desultory meditation, by turns erudite and sardonic. De Botton uses the examples of ten occupations as entry points into associative digressions, but he never gives the workers themselves any voice. While this oversight limits the scope of what he can accomplish in a work that he himself commends

I spotted this book among a display at my local library, one of those monthly themed-topic selections the library staff picks out. What We're Reading This Month or If You Liked That, You'll Like This , or something similar. As I was going through a bit of an existential crisis career-wise at the time Leggi tutto

I picked this up because I heard the author speak on a couple public radio shows and he seemed interesting. I've also always struggled with the ideas of "work" and "vocation" (i.e. I imagine that if I had the latter, the former wouldn't be so frustrating), so I was actually very excited to read an e Leggi tutto

De Botton applies his self-consciously philosophical style to exploring the how and why of a cross-section of professions across the Western world. Relying upon a mix of happenstance encounters and his own personal agenda , de Botton pursues his stated quest to attempt to create: "a hymn to the intel Leggi tutto

Having enjoyed a few of Botton's other books, I was keen to pick up his latest. The overarching theme of all of his work is an examination of the values of modern life that often go unquestioned. It makes sense, then, to focus on work, but this book does not live up to the promise of its title. It is Leggi tutto

I found de Botton's voice condescending and arrogant. He refers to women as "symbols" one too many times for me--just because a woman is attractive doesn't mean that she can't be an effective salesperson independently of her looks. Beyond the misogyny, I doubt de Botton's ever had a "real job" in hi Leggi tutto

وقتی از دوباتن پرسیده میشه جرقه ی این کتاب چطور خورد جواب میده اگر یک مریخی به زمین می آمد و میخواست با خوندن ادبیات بداند مردم چکار میکنند به این نتیجه میرسه که مردم وقتشان را صرف عاشق شدن, جر و بحث با اعضای خانواده و گاهی کشتن یکدیگر میکنند. اما ما سر کار میرویم و با این حال در آثار هنری به ندرت ب Leggi tutto

Pressed upon me by the unsuspecting morning mailman (I marvelled at how little did he wonder: that within the contents of my parcel an author could be about to unpack all the futility of his public service endeavours) de Botton's latest fetched up, with it's newly-minted, freshly-printed, straight-f Leggi tutto