The Book of This and That


Lu par LibriVox Volunteers

(2.7 stars; 7 reviews)

From the pen of the Irish poet and essayist, Robert Lynd, comes a collection of humorous and satirical essays on topics as wide ranging as stupidity, Christmas, spring fashions, and the beauty of statistics. - Summary by Larry Wilson (5 hr 45 min)

Chapitres

Suspicion 11:00 Lu par Tom Penn
On Good Resolutions 11:08 Lu par Tom Penn
The Sin of Dancing 10:09 Lu par CoMo290
Thoughts at a Tango Tea 14:17 Lu par drandall
The Humours of Murder 14:58 Lu par Skip Corris
The Decline and Fall of Hell 9:05 Lu par CoMo290
On Cheerful Readers 10:55 Lu par Dietrich Weber
St G. B. S. and the Bishop 10:44 Lu par DrPGould
Stupidity 14:37 Lu par realisticspeakers
Waste 12:56 Lu par realisticspeakers
On Christmas 12:04 Lu par Larry Wilson
On Demagogues 12:03 Lu par Skip Corris
On Coincidences 13:42 Lu par Kathleen Moore
On Indignation 12:22 Lu par Kathleen Moore
The Heart of Mr Galsworthy 13:11 Lu par Kathleen Moore
Spring Fashions 13:31 Lu par drandall
On Black Cats 9:52 Lu par Devorah Allen
On Being Shocked 14:06 Lu par AnnaLisa Bodtker
Confessions 11:27 Lu par Skip Corris
The Terrors of Politics 11:33 Lu par Greg Giordano
On Disasters 13:55 Lu par Greg Giordano
The Rights of Murder 12:34 Lu par Skip Corris
The Humour of Hoaxes 12:37 Lu par Greg Giordano
Anatole France 11:50 Lu par Skip Corris
The Sea 13:21 Lu par Larry Wilson
The Futurists 14:05 Lu par realisticspeakers
A Defence of Critics 11:12 Lu par Tom Penn
On the Beauty of Statistics 12:18 Lu par Tom Penn

Critiques

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(3.5 stars)

This curmudgeonly book is entertaining, but sometimes puzzling. The references to 100-year-old scandals, the shock still reverberating over the dangers of walzing, and the outdated (but possibly unconscious) attitude toward "class" have little to do with the 21st century. But there are a couple of essays that are spot on still: Waste and Statistics. If he thought waste was dreadful around the end of the 19th century... And we are, of course, inundated in Statistics, and every PhD candidate churns up more! All the narration is good, with no technical issues.