In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed, (Paperback)

from colinsky

I never really got traction with this book, perhaps because its sweep was a bit too broad and treatment of each topic was too superficial. It also seems as though you can take a large number of different types of social initiatives and stuff them into the general rubric of a 'slow' movement, when...

from RachelGodfrey

This book really annoyed me, the author is clearly an upper-middle class Londoner who seems to have no idea that not everyone in the modern world shares his lifestyle. He begins a lot of sentences with "nowadays we all..." and his basic grasp of the concept of slowness seems to be that "we all" r...

from prima1

interesting book about life issues, although the support is too circumstancial

from nazgul.sp

Great book unveiling the myth that doing things faster is always better. Great for those feeling overwhelmed by the ever increasing speed of things nowadays. The author shows us this trend of slowness in many groups of interest ranging from cooking to sex life. I think the book is a great effort ...

from briandarvell

Great overview on how to begin taking more control of your time and approach a new way of living. Gives suggestions on many different areas of life and was much more enjoyable and thought-provoking than I had initially expected it to be.