Pleasure of Thinking: A Journey Through the Sideways Leaps of Ideas
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (651 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1908096640 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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No real thinking here Jennifer M. Snow This book has nothing whatsoever to do with thinking, it's just a bunch of stories about collecting books. While the stories are well-written and somewhat interesting, there's really no point to them.. Bernard Chapin said The Tremendous Pleasure of Reading Dr. Dalrymple. The great English psychiatrist is one of my favorite writers. I'll read anything that he types. The Pleasure of Thinking though will have the least universal appeal out of any of his works as its a bit of inside baseball concerning booksellers and used books. I'm a book lover but Dr. Dalrymple takes us far deeper into th. "Five Stars" according to Linguophile. Great musings on the lifelong love that is books.
About the Author Theodore Dalrymple writes for The Times, Telegraph, Daily Mail and Express, and writes psychological profiles of murderers for British courts. He is the author of Spoilt Rotten (9781906142612) and he lives near Birmingham. . For over a decade he had a column in the Spectator ('If Symptoms Persist') on his work as a prison doctor
For over a decade he had a column in the Spectator ('If Symptoms Persist') on his work as a prison doctor. He is the author of Spoilt Rotten (9781906142612) and he lives near Birmingham. . Theodore Dalrymple writes for The Times, Telegraph, Daily Mail and Express, and writes psychological profiles of murderers for British courts
In The Pleasure of Thinking he takes us on a witty and erudite voyage along the hidden pathways that bring ideas together. At once light-hearted and enlightening, it is an amusing flight of the imagination in which we discover the happy accidents that befall those who remain endlessly curious.. What is the connection between God and East Sheen? How do you talk your way out of an Albanian jail? Why do dictators love to make comic books? How does a missed penalty-kick lead to a bloody war? Theodore Dalrymple, a psychiatrist who gives expert witness in murder cases, has a passion for sideways thinking