Sloth: The Seven Deadly Sins - Softcover

Wasserstein, Wendy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195312090 ISBN 13: 9780195312096

Verlag: OUP USA, 2007

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Book by Wasserstein Wendy

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"A delightfully hilarious parody.... Wasserstein provides a plethora of amusing motivational strategies, including slogans like 'all systems no.'"―Library Journal

"Wasserstein convinces the reader that schedules and jogging are for dummies. Carbs and contemplation are in. Read this book to unlock the inner lazy you―and peace and happiness will follow beyond your wildest dreams. Embrace your human potential, read In-Style magazine. Wendy Wasserstein's Sloth is THE self-help manual for our age." ―Flora Fraser, writer and biographer

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Here is a rollicking parody of the self-help genre, one that skewers the couch-bound, apathetic mentality so pervasive in the West today.
With tongue in cheek, Sloth guides readers step-by-step toward a life of noncommittal inertia. "You have the right to be lazy," writes Wasserstein. "You can choose not to respond. You can choose not to move." Readers will find out the importance of Lethargiosis―the process of eliminating energy and drive, the vital first step in becoming a sloth. To help you attain the perfect state of indolent bliss, the book offers a wealth of self-help aids. Readers will find the sloth songbook, sloth breakfast bars (packed with sugar, additives, and a delicious touch of Ambien), sloth documentaries (such as the author's 12-hour epic on Thomas Aquinas), and the sloth network, channel 823, programming guaranteed not to stimulate or challenge in any way. ("It may be difficult to distinguish between this and other channels, but only on channel 823 can you watch me sleeping.") Readers will also learn the top ten lies about Sloth, the ten commandments of Sloth, the SLOTH mantra, even the "too-much ten"―over-achievers such as Marie Curie, Shakespeare, and William the Conqueror. You will discover how to become a sloth in your diet, exercise, work, and even love-life (true love leads to passion, she warns, and passion is the biggest enemy of sloth).

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• Verlag: OUP USA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0195312090
• ISBN 13: 9780195312096
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 136