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Sloth
Here is a rollicking parody of the self-help genre, one that skewers the couch-bound, apathetic mentality so pervasive in America today.
With tongue in cheek, Sloth guides readers step-by-step toward a life of noncommittal inertia. "You have the right to be lazy," writes Wasserstein. "You can choose not to respond. You can choose not to move." Readers ...more
With tongue in cheek, Sloth guides readers step-by-step toward a life of noncommittal inertia. "You have the right to be lazy," writes Wasserstein. "You can choose not to respond. You can choose not to move." Readers ...more
Paperback, 114 pages
Published
August 23rd 2006
by Oxford University Press
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เล่มนี้ต่างจากเล่ม 'อิจฉา' ตรงที่เขียนเป็นหนังสือฮาวทูยั่วล้อหนังสือฮาวทูทั้งหลาย (เล่มอิจฉาเขียนเป็นหนังสือ non-fic ธรรมดา ส่วนเล่มอื่นยังไม่เคยอ่าน) ชื่อว่า "ความเกียจคร้าน และวิธีการเพื่อให้ได้มา" ล้อกันตั้งกะคำนำ ตลกดี แต่ขนบการเขียนเหมือนฮาวทูมากจนติดความน่ารำคาญมาด้วย
ก่อนจะตลบหลังผู้อ่านตอนท้าย ด้วยการแนะนำ 'อภิมนุษย์เกียจคร้านยุคนิวเอจ' หมายถึงมนุษย์ยุคศตวรรษที่ 21 ผู้บ้ากิจกรรม ทำตัวเองให้ยุ่งจนจิตวิญญาณก้าวสู่ภาวะง่วงงุนถาวร
"..เหมือนกันกับชีวิตเกียจคร้าน นั่นค...more
ก่อนจะตลบหลังผู้อ่านตอนท้าย ด้วยการแนะนำ 'อภิมนุษย์เกียจคร้านยุคนิวเอจ' หมายถึงมนุษย์ยุคศตวรรษที่ 21 ผู้บ้ากิจกรรม ทำตัวเองให้ยุ่งจนจิตวิญญาณก้าวสู่ภาวะง่วงงุนถาวร
"..เหมือนกันกับชีวิตเกียจคร้าน นั่นค...more
This series by Oxford University Press on "The Seven Deadly Sins" looked interesting, but "Sloth" did not fulfill any expectations.
It was supposed to be funny, I know. I even could tell how and where it was supposed to be funny. But it seemed endlessly repetitive and whiney and pointless instead.
Who wants to support capitalist greed or the result of self-centered striving? (well ok, I could name a few people, but...) I agree, organized religion is m...more
It was supposed to be funny, I know. I even could tell how and where it was supposed to be funny. But it seemed endlessly repetitive and whiney and pointless instead.
Who wants to support capitalist greed or the result of self-centered striving? (well ok, I could name a few people, but...) I agree, organized religion is m...more
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This gently funny book, in the style of a self-help manual, satirizes the advice and personal improvement messages we're immersed in. Written in the earnest voice of "a regular guy whose life was totally changed by sloth," Wasserstein lays out the Sloth Plan, which promotes "stationary sex" over active sex, reading People over the New York Times, and choosing Cheetos over a grilled fish dinner in a program designed to help the devotee empty her mind, save energy, opt out of ...more
Okay, so the premise had promise. That's all the book had going for it. Seriously, when I found the list in the back of the book with 'sloth ratings' for everyday activities more interesting than the text...you know something's wrong.
I read this because I was on a Wendy Wasserstein kick but this really could have been overlooked. It's not bad but it really doesn't fit with the rest of her work.
Funny in many places and yet the funny I expected, perhaps needed, to find herein, I didn't. I wanted laugh out loud, extensive chuckling not choke, spit occasional bursts. Picky, picky as Pat Paulsen would say to that. This is a very well-done parody with plenty of sarcasm in it's basic fiber and so true that it hurts even when at its funniest. Still I think I wanted something more, something else, as well and I'm not sure what that was exactly. Thus I'm giving it the basic okay -- which ...more
A very amusing send up of sloth (or more technically - acedia). The perfect companion piece to read along with the excellent, though very serious, "Acedia and me" by Kathleen Norris.
Sloth is my favorite deadly sin, but alas, the best thing about this book was the illustration of the lazy hammock guy. Probably really funny to the kind of people who think New Yorker cartoons are laugh-out-loud funny. But thinking about the sloth bit from Saturday Night Live is actually funny, so I'll do that now: "Hire a dog to burn down a hospital! Eat cocaine off America's gravestone!" I love sloth and sloths.
A jokey fake self help book on the virtues of sloth. Pretty funny in parts.
Hilarious! This is an excellent parody of self-help books -- the key to happiness is found by doing nothing. Don't strive for achievement, instead just give up, do nothing, it's easier.
Had so much fun reading this book! I liked her sense of humour. Would recommend to read for some uptight people :)
Amusing but couldn't hold me for 100 pages. but if you need a beach book, could be just the thing.
The funniest, most entertaining of Oxford's seven deadly sins series
Hilarious and true.
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Wendy Wasserstein was an award-winning American playwright and an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. She was the recipient of the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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