Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It
“I have an idea for a self help-book,” I said. “Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It.”“But you can’t be bothered to write it, right?”This isn’t a self-help book, but it is a book about how Geoff Dyer could do with a little help. In mordantly funny and thought-provoking prose, the author...
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“I have an idea for a self help-book,” I said. “Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It.”“But you can’t be bothered to write it, right?”This isn’t a self-help book, but it is a book about how Geoff Dyer could do with a little help. In mordantly funny and thought-provoking prose, the author of Out of Sheer Rage describes a life most of us would love to live—and how much that life frustrates and aggravates him. From Amsterdam to Cambodia, from Rome to Indonesia, from New Orleans to Libya, from Detroit to Ko Pha-Ngan, Dyer finds himself both floundering about in a sea of grievances and losing himself in moments of transcendental calm. This aberrant quest for peak experience leads, ultimately, to the Zone: to the Black Rock Desert in Nevada where—to quote Tarkovsky’s Stalker—“your most cherished desire will come true.”Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It is a chronicle of how Geoff Dyer learned to feel completely at home in a state of perpetual arrival and departure.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780375422140 (0375422145)
Publish date: January 14th 2003
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Humor,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
Essays,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Philosophy
I am not surprised to learn that there are many readers who begin this book thinking it may help them understand yoga or the book be interesting enough that it doesn't matter that the writing is not about yoga at all. Early on in their reading many of these readers discover it isn't enough for Geoff...