[bksvol-discuss] Re: How I Became Stupid
- From: "Evan Reese" <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:18:51 -0700
Actually, that sounds quite interesting. Very intriguing.
Evan
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From: Jamie Yates
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Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 6:49 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] How I Became Stupid
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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