The Hedonism Handbook: Mastering the Lost Arts of Leisure and Pleasure
By the best-selling author of The Metrosexual Guide to Style, an amusing tour of vice and its virtues and the anti-self help book of all time. In the age of Oprah, Dr. Phil, and countless other self-help disciplinarians, indulging in any kind of pleasurable pastime is on the brink of extinction. But it's not too late to revive those lost pleasures that make life worth living. The Hedonism Handbook can help put the three-martini lunch, the baguette with real butter, the deep tan, the unfiltered cigarette, or the simple act of lying in a hammock under the stars back within our grasp. A tongue-in-cheek, satirical guide to the "good" life, The Hedonism Handbook will help us reclaim it all. With his characteristic wit, author Michael Flocker combines humorous reviews of historical excesses, suggestions for everyday indulgences, lists of hedonistic icons with famous quotes and earnest warnings about the perils of structured living. Made up of ten worldly wise chapters arranged to form a journey for the reader- a path from the straight-and-narrow into wide-open fields of frivolity- The Hedonism Handbook will help readers master the lost arts of leisure and pleasure. It provides an entertaining, yet (if you're not careful), life-changing read.
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Recent Reviews
- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Apr-23-2009
- fast and high or slow and low, let yourself go!!!
Hedonism has been a solid networking gift I've been purchasing for (5+) years; tons of useful quotes from celebrities both on earth and off. If you enjoy reading short thoughts about the other side of how both open-minded and flexible...
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Mar-31-2009
- Great Timing
This book couldn't of come into my life at a better time. work stress, family stress, health issues, everything going wrong. And then today I go into a thrift store and find this book for 75 cents.I took it home and read it in one night....
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Feb-19-2009
- Nice, relaxing read for any hedonist (or someone who strives to be one)
This book was just what I needed to take my mind off the stresses of school and work, albeit for a mere few hours in a day. I really enjoyed the author's playful and light voice throughout, peppering us with little interesting tidbits...
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Nov-06-2008
- Hedonism Handbook
An entertaining read containing a lot of very funny material but,on another level,a lot of good advice for maximizing the quality and quantity of pleasure we can draw into our life.A great gift for friends who need reminding to stop and...
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Apr-23-2009
- fast and high or slow and low, let yourself go!!!
Hedonism has been a solid networking gift I've been purchasing for (5+) years; tons of useful quotes from celebrities both on earth and off. If you enjoy reading short thoughts about the other side of how both open-minded and flexible...
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- 3/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: May-24-2006
- Short and Sweet
The book was short and good hearted, but was more of a brief history of hedonism with a splash of advice. It did have good sugestions but I felt the author repeated himself often. The book could have easily been a third of the length and...
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- 2/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Oct-29-2008
- historical trivia, amusing observations
It might be "eye-opening" and "life-changing" to a newly sprung, life-long religious cult member, but I didn't encounter much in this book I wasn't already aware of.
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