How to Be Idle: A Loafer's Manifesto, (Paperback)

from castiron

I didn't finish this book, though I read large chunks of it. The author has some really good points, that apply just as much (if not more so) to American society as to his own British. Why should we look at any apparent idleness with suspicion? Why is it more important to look like we're busy for...

from MarthaJeanne

Be idle - with the help of tobacco, alcohol, and ecstasy. If he needs drugs to be idle, I don't want his advice.

from Mendoza

Any book that endorses sleep and putting off everything possible until another day is for me. 'With advice, information, and reflection on such matters as lying in, long lunches, and the art of the nap. How to be Idle gives you all the inspiration needed to take a break from your fast-paced, over...

from MiaCulpa

While I need to instruction on how to be idle, it's always good to have refresher courses and "How to be idle" is such a refresher course. Hodgkinson's thesis, that pre-Industrial Revolution, humans didn't necessarily adhere to a work ethic and spent much of their time kicking back, attending Sai...

from JenneB

Well, I broke my foot and was kind of stuck being idle, so I figured I ought to find out how to do it right.This is a fun little book--each chapter corresponds to an hour in the day, and some type of thing you might be doing, or not doing, then.I didn't feel obliged to really read it especially c...