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whichthreewords's review
3.0
I'm fond of Brian Fawcett, but he rather disappeared into his own navel in this one. It could've used a good edit for length as well.
jlkhype's review
5.0
Watch the BookShort video for Human Happiness here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzXyVfTpu0Y
From The Afterword, by Philip Marchand, National Post ...
Perhaps more than art or mysticism, warmth and generosity redeem everything. It is the tone of warmth that redresses the book’s outbursts of opinion, its occasional extremes of indelicacy, as our Victorian predecessors might have put it. It is a series of undramatic incidents in this memoir that pierce the heart, such as the occasion when Fawcett and his father worked together on repairing the son’s Volkswagen. “I was too stupid to acknowledge that we’d had fun working together,” Fawcett writes, “that I’d learned several useful skills or that when I returned to Vancouver I was more or less undamaged by his bullying.”
To remember such an incident and recall it in such plain and serviceable language is a light shining in the darkness.
Read the entire review -- http://arts.nationalpost.com/2011/10/07/open-book-human-happiness-by-brian-fawcett/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzXyVfTpu0Y
From The Afterword, by Philip Marchand, National Post ...
Perhaps more than art or mysticism, warmth and generosity redeem everything. It is the tone of warmth that redresses the book’s outbursts of opinion, its occasional extremes of indelicacy, as our Victorian predecessors might have put it. It is a series of undramatic incidents in this memoir that pierce the heart, such as the occasion when Fawcett and his father worked together on repairing the son’s Volkswagen. “I was too stupid to acknowledge that we’d had fun working together,” Fawcett writes, “that I’d learned several useful skills or that when I returned to Vancouver I was more or less undamaged by his bullying.”
To remember such an incident and recall it in such plain and serviceable language is a light shining in the darkness.
Read the entire review -- http://arts.nationalpost.com/2011/10/07/open-book-human-happiness-by-brian-fawcett/
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