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Ladataan... Montaigne in Barn Boots: An Amateur Ambles Through PhilosophyTekijä: Michael Perry
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. This book is mainly about Montaigne and one man's experience of reading him over the years. While his style is sort of folksy cornpone (which I don't particularly care for), Perry is good at it (and I even laughed out loud a couple times). Plus, his exploration of Montaigne's essays are interesting, if not hugely insightful. Definitely more of a humor book than a philosophy book. ( ) A Fan in Barn Boots In Montaigne in Barn Boots, Mike Perry reflects on the writings of Montaigne as he compares it to his own personal philosophy. For me, I dipped my toes in Montaigne’s essays and they quickly went numb. However, Mr. Perry made those essays with his down-home folksy similes and metaphors easy to understand . I fear that comes off less than a compliment, but it is a compliment. Those comparisons were dead-on and unique. Even Mr. Perry questions presenting another memoir from him. Do we want to hear more of Mike’s life and his beliefs? Do we want him to get more personal? This books gives a resounding yes. He writes about his own life to investigate what being human means. He is so effective that he can write a whole book discussing himself without over-indulging and getting over personal. Yes, Mr. Perry, we want more. We want to know about the man off-stage and those subjects you have not broached. And Mr, Perry we want you to get very personal without going to far and being respectful of our tender sensibilities. That was his undertaking and he was successful. He does both. For example, he lets us know that his marriage is more than just love poems to her. He reveals that he does have a marriage like ours with its ups and downs while still being as reverential to his wife as our wives wish we would be. With Montaigne in Barn Boots, author Michael Perry joins the ranks of so many others who have realized that reading Montaigne is like peering into a mirror. You look across the centuries and find that people in Montaigne’s time were just about the same as we are in this “Modern” Era. Initially, Perry sought out Montaigne for his thoughts on having Kidney Stones, since he was afflicted with them himself. However, Montaigne’s candid nature won him over, even though some of the words are really complicated depending on the translation. He writes of his reading like a chicken pecking at feed, frantically gorging down morsels too big for their gullets. So Perry discusses the entire gamut of life in this relatively short package; from marriage to death. Packed with wisdom and wry humor, this book is pretty enjoyable. ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
The beloved memoirist and bestselling author of Population: 485 reflects on the lessons he's learned from his unlikely alter ego, French Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. "The journey began on a gurney," writes Michael Perry, describing the debilitating kidney stone that led him to discover the essays of Michel de Montaigne. Reading the philosopher in a manner he equates to chickens pecking at scraps--including those eye-blinking moments when the bird gobbles something too big to swallow--Perry attempts to learn what he can (good and bad) about himself as compared to a long-dead French nobleman who began speaking Latin at the age of two, went to college instead of kindergarten, worked for kings, and once had an audience with the Pope. Perry "matriculated as a barn-booted bumpkin who still marks a second-place finish in the sixth-grade spelling bee as an intellectual pinnacle . . . and once said hello to Merle Haggard on a golf cart." Written in a spirit of exploration rather than declaration, Montaigne in Barn Boots is a down-to-earth (how do you pronounce that last name?) look into the ideas of a philosopher "ensconced in a castle tower overlooking his vineyard," channeled by a midwestern American writing "in a room above the garage overlooking a disused pig pen." Whether grabbing an electrified fence, fighting fires, failing to fix a truck, or feeding chickens, Perry draws on each experience to explore subjects as diverse as faith, race, sex, aromatherapy, and Prince. But he also champions academics and aesthetics, in a book that ultimately emerges as a sincere, unflinching look at the vital need to be a better person and citizen. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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