The Book of This and That
Robert Lynd
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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)
Chapters
Suspicion | 11:00 | Read by Tom Penn |
On Good Resolutions | 11:08 | Read by Tom Penn |
The Sin of Dancing | 10:09 | Read by CoMo290 |
Thoughts at a Tango Tea | 14:17 | Read by drandall |
The Humours of Murder | 14:58 | Read by Skip Corris |
The Decline and Fall of Hell | 9:05 | Read by CoMo290 |
On Cheerful Readers | 10:55 | Read by Dietrich Weber |
St G. B. S. and the Bishop | 10:44 | Read by DrPGould |
Stupidity | 14:37 | Read by realisticspeakers |
Waste | 12:56 | Read by realisticspeakers |
On Christmas | 12:04 | Read by Larry Wilson |
On Demagogues | 12:03 | Read by Skip Corris |
On Coincidences | 13:42 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
On Indignation | 12:22 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
The Heart of Mr Galsworthy | 13:11 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
Spring Fashions | 13:31 | Read by drandall |
On Black Cats | 9:52 | Read by Devorah Allen |
On Being Shocked | 14:06 | Read by AnnaLisa Bodtker |
Confessions | 11:27 | Read by Skip Corris |
The Terrors of Politics | 11:33 | Read by Greg Giordano |
On Disasters | 13:55 | Read by Greg Giordano |
The Rights of Murder | 12:34 | Read by Skip Corris |
The Humour of Hoaxes | 12:37 | Read by Greg Giordano |
Anatole France | 11:50 | Read by Skip Corris |
The Sea | 13:21 | Read by Larry Wilson |
The Futurists | 14:05 | Read by realisticspeakers |
A Defence of Critics | 11:12 | Read by Tom Penn |
On the Beauty of Statistics | 12:18 | Read by Tom Penn |
Reviews
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Phxjennifer
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 The references to 100-year-old scandals, the shock still reverberating over the dangers of walzing, and the outdated (but possibly unconscious) attitude toward "class" have little to do with the 21st century.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.