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pbobrit's review against another edition
2.0
Damn you London Sunday Times Style section ... you recommended this book, WHY!!!! You know when you have a paper to write and you only have a very flimsy thesis to base it on, but you go ahead anyway, well this book is like that, but IT'S A BOOK! The author (who apparently is charged with the responsibility of educating young minds at a university somewhere), has a basic premise that basically pretty much every negative thing in the world is caused by 'humania', or basically our inability to get beyond surface mental chatter, and that if we were all mindful and meditated etc etc we wouldn't be in the situation we are in. Now I buy this premise in part, but not to the lengths that he chooses to extrapolate it to. Half of the 254 pages is an explanation of how this 'humania' has caused pretty much every bad thing that has happen in history. The second half is pretty much your standard mindfulness/slow-down solution to the problem that has been written about in many many books. The best I can say is that it is a quick read, so you should not waste too many hours of your life should you choose to read this tome.
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