A review by olanaras
How to be Idle by Tom Hodgkinson

2.0

I wanted to love this book, because I love Tom and I love the idler. However, this book is really just a collection of short essays and doesn’t warrant a book (or at least a book I want to read as a whole). It works far better in his weekly emails and idler magazine articles. Also, I’m personally a natural early riser and hate night tim; the first half of the book, with its witty observations of daytime, was very poignant for me, whilst the second half wasn’t something I could understand or laugh along with. I’m sure it’s the opposite for most people.

It’s not that it was a bad book, it was just a bad book for me. For me, a book needs a story - without a line through it all, there is no need for a collection of essays to become a book.