Importance of Being Idle

An idler?s manifesto, with contributions from Aristotle, Thoreau, Twain, Wilde, Pynchon, Thurber, and many more.

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Posted: Mar-23-2009

Truly a remarkable book!!

This book has totally soothed all resistance to stress in my life. Because of the beautiful vision this author had, millions of us may now relax in the fact that can be lazy - just for lazy's sake. I would love to see this author produce another "Importance of Being Idle" volume two - which...

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Posted: Sep-14-2005

A Great Book We Can All Learn From

The Importance of Being Idle has the type of wisdom our generation can learn from. And they have. Noel Gallagher penned a song by the same name that went #1 in the U.K. during August of 2005, showing that not only are there a lot of Oasis fans, but a lot of people who can relate to the words....

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Posted: May-10-2002

The devil makes work...

While Mr Robins is undoubtedly proud of his high intellect, I sadly, am unimpressed. Idleness is fine and dandy if you are genuine cad, like Aristotle, Wilde and Twain, but for the rest of us philistines it is a luxury that can never truly be afforded.I eagerly await the sequel "Slave to...

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Posted: Mar-04-2002

A Gem

Full of quotes by people like Mark Twain, Bertrand Russell, Charles Dickens and Samuel Johnson (who particularly liked to loaf, it seems), this book will eliminate any guilt about being lazy or wasting time, actually revealing idleness as the source of civilisation and inspiration. It isn't all...

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