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Title: Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It by Geoff Dyer ISBN: 0-375-42214-5 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 14 January, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Average Customer Rating: 3.69 (13 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Let go of expectations and enjoy
Comment: It's not Geoff Dyer's fault that a lot of people seem pick up this book and think they're going to get something else-a travel guide or a memoir or a philosophical treatise. Judging by the reviews, a lot of readers are uncomfortable with something that they can't really pin down. Dyer doesn't help these readers out by flitting around the globe and resolutely refusing to say anything meaningful about anything but his own state of mind. But once you let go of expectations, "Yoga" really starts to grow on you, adding up to a pleasant if transitory experience, kind of like an evening with an aging backpacker in a seedy hostel with a bottle of Thai whiskey. Dyer also charms as someone who is obviously staggeringly well-read, yet wears his knowledge lightly and seems to actually live with his favorites, instead of just name-drop. That must be a British thing, because it's rare to find American writers who can pull this off. (...)
Rating: 5
Summary: A middle-aged slacker's guide to the universe. And more!
Comment: Geoff Dyer is brilliant and hilarious. I couldn't put it down. One of the best things I've read in awhile. This is a collection of travel essays, and yet it's not. His approach to travel seems to be one of getting stoned so that one may enter the mundane. And he writes about the mundane as if it were the most fascinating place in the world. Forget travel guide books. Just go someplace and do nothing. And after awhile the nothing becomes something. I think you have to be a bit bent to enjoy this book. And if you are, you'll love Dyer's offbeat view of the world. I did.
Rating: 4
Summary: Drug hazed travels
Comment: Dyer's wonderful, drug haze of 'travel essays' depend on decisive comments, deliberately undermined by doubt added, almost as an afterthought, at the end of most sentences. He's a man who you suspect is going to throw five dollar words at you, who always opts for the simple route. This lends a friendly, emotional warmth to his writing that relaxes you, lets him sidle right up to you before you begin to understand that his writing is perhaps more subversive, and more aggressive than you'd think. Dyer's essays can be genuinely funny, for instance, the moment while constantly changing rooms in a run down Miami hotel, changing again and again because of vicious mice, cigarette smells, and a French woman he finds sitting on his toilet. It's all delivered in a paragraph, so quickly that you have to stop to enjoy your laughter. The book sustains a naive quality that keeps Dyer's sense of the world fresh. Perhaps his only weakness is that his prose is much stronger than his dialogue. His dialogue can take ten lines to make a point, or reach the laugh, something he can often achieve in a single line of prose.
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Title: Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence by Geoff Dyer ISBN: 0865475407 Publisher: North Point Press Pub. Date: 16 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Paris Trance: A Romance by Geoff Dyer ISBN: 0865476004 Publisher: North Point Press Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Colour of Memory by Geoff Dyer ISBN: 0349109192 Publisher: Century Pub. Date: May, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: How to Be Alone: Essays by Jonathan Franzen ISBN: 0312422164 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: A Box of Matches: A Novel by Nicholson Baker ISBN: 0375502874 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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