A review by khoystoboy
An Apology for Idlers by Robert Louis Stevenson

lighthearted reflective relaxing slow-paced

3.25

I wish I could have enjoyed it more, since I have read many of Stevenson's novels and loved them. However, I would suggest only to read the first two essays. Stevenson has a natural bent to wit and clever language devices which play throughout all the essays, but all but the first two seem scattered or messy for some reason, as if it was his first draft and had not been revised. An Apology for Idlers and Letter to a Young Gentleman are much more well thought-out. On Falling in Love isn't bad also, but is more like a stream of thoughts, extremely different to his usual writing style which is normally so sophisticated and refined.