[bksvol-discuss] How I Became Stupid
- From: Jamie Yates <jamieyates@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Bookshare Volunteers <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:49:07 -0700 (PDT)
I saw this book on someone else's list of books read and thought it sounded
fun, so I got it from mel (our interlibrary loan). I had a hard time getting
into the book so I decided to skip it, but I thought I would scan it before I
sent it back to the library.
From the back cover:
What if ignorance really is bliss?
Tortured by the depth of his own intellect, plagued by his overwhelming sense
of self-awareness and the moral implications of every action he makes, Antoine,
a twenty-five-year-old Aramaic scholar, is at the end of his rope, with only
one viable solution in sight: he must denounce his intelligence, by any means
necessary. What follows in Martin Page?s wickedly funny satire is an odyssey
unlike any other as Antoine walks the streets of Paris trying everything from
alcoholism to stock-trading to the prescription drug Happyzac in order to
lighten the burden of his mind on his soul, and to fulfill his dream of
becoming stupid enough to be a happily functioning member of society.
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Jamie in Michigan
Currently Reading - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
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