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Loading... In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed (Plus)by Carl Honore
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. 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. (  )briandarvell | May 31, 2009 |   (Jane G.): I have read this book. Highlights various aspects of the Slow Movement around the world. CohoTurtle | Jan 13, 2009 |  In Praise Of Slowness is a book which challenges many of the assumptions on which the Western urban existence is based. Honore explores various questions of pace and lifestyle, from food to travel to entertainment, questioning the high value that is placed on speed and challenging the reader to explore the alternatives offered by conscious and joyful slowness. Although Honore's writing is often lyrical, the core ideas of this book manage to balance common sense with an agenda determined to subvert cultural norms. I highly recommend this book for anyone reconsidering their life, career or relationship with the world around them. ( )flyingblogspot | Dec 20, 2008 | In Praise of Slowness is a plea for deceleration. Author Carl Honore would like us to remember that even though our machines have become very fast indeed, human beings need not emulate them. Naturally he starts with the Italians, who invented the Slow Food movement and inspired various other movements: Slow Sex, Slow Cities, Slow Parenting, et cetera. This book (and the many people quoted in it) make a good case for chilling out. Do we really want to live in a world where books of One-Minute Bedtime Stories are bestsellers? How many people really enjoy a caffeinated lifestyle, fueled by nuked food? In Praise of Slowness would be a better book if it proceeded at a leisurely pace, rather than darting from point to point in a brisk, glossy-magazine manner. Then again, if Honore didn't keep the pace brisk, how many modern readers would set aside the time to read it? subbobmail | Aug 30, 2008 | This started as a series of articles in the National Post and it does show somewhat in the slightly disjointed feel of it, and also in the slightly superficial treatment. However it's also an interesting meditation on time and our use of it. How many people devote their lives to their jobs only to look back later and regret that they haven't done things they wanted to do? This is a look at some people who are taking that to heart and trying for a life that satisfies them on several levels rather than rushing at things. I found a lot of food for thought in this one, ideas that I will have to mull over and see what they produce. ( )wyvernfriend | May 22, 2008 | 0.036 seconds to build listing
Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 006054578X, Hardcover)We live in the age of speed. The world around us moves faster than ever before. We strain to be more efficient, to cram more into each minute, each hour, every day. Since the Industrial Revolution shifted the world into high gear, the cult of speed has taken complete hold and pushed us to breaking point. Consider these facts: Americans spend 40% less time with their children than they did in the 1960s; American on average spends 72 minutes of every day behind the wheel of a car; a typical business executive now loses 68 hours a year to being put on hold; and American adults currently devote on average a meager half hour per week to making love.Living on the edge of exhaustion, we are constantly reminded by our bodies and minds that the pace of life is spinning out of control. In Praise of Slowness traces the history of our increasingly breathless relationship with time, and tackles the consequences and conundrum of living in this accelerated culture of our own creation. Why are we always in such a rush? What is the cure for time-sickness? Is it possible, or even desirable, to slow down? Realizing the price we pay for unrelenting speed, people all over the world are reclaiming their time and slowing down the pace - and living happier, more productive and healthier lives as a result. A slow revolution is taking place. But here you will find no Luddite calls to overthrow technology and seek a pre-industrial utopia. This is a modern revolution, championed by cell phone using, emailing lovers of sanity. The slow philosophy can be summed up in a single word—balance. People are discovering energy and efficiency where you may have least expected — in slowing down. In this engaging and entertaining exploration, award-winning journalist and rehabilitated speedaholic Carl Honoré details our perennial love affair with efficiency and speed in a perfect blend of anecdotal reportage, history and intellectual inquiry. In Praise of Slowness is the first comprehensive look at the worldwide slow movements making their way into the mainstream, in offices, factories, neighborhoods, kitchens, hospitals, concert halls, bedrooms, gyms and schools. Defining a movement whose time has finally come, this spirited manifesto will make you completely rethink your relationship with time. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:22 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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