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A review by davybaby
Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates: Using Philosophy (and Jokes!) to Explain Life, Death, the Afterlife, and Everything in Between by Thomas Cathcart, Daniel Klein
2.0
I listened to this in the car. I think if I'd actually had to move my eyes, I wouldn't have finished it.
I think the problem is that surface-level philosophy doesn't pack as much of a punch, and they were really just doing an overview of a bunch of philosophers' views on X. Also, while many jokes do have a philosophical viewpoint, I felt like a lot of these were stretching. It might make a better blog or something. Where you can do one joke, then the philosophy behind it. But what do I know?
Hearing it read by the authors made it a bit more irritating. Maybe it's because a lot of the jokes were lame, and it reminded me of hanging out with the old guys in the balcony from the Muppet Show. So picture those guys talking about philosophy for about 4 hours.
Well, that sounds pretty good. Stop picturing that. It wasn't that good.
I think the problem is that surface-level philosophy doesn't pack as much of a punch, and they were really just doing an overview of a bunch of philosophers' views on X. Also, while many jokes do have a philosophical viewpoint, I felt like a lot of these were stretching. It might make a better blog or something. Where you can do one joke, then the philosophy behind it. But what do I know?
Hearing it read by the authors made it a bit more irritating. Maybe it's because a lot of the jokes were lame, and it reminded me of hanging out with the old guys in the balcony from the Muppet Show. So picture those guys talking about philosophy for about 4 hours.
Well, that sounds pretty good. Stop picturing that. It wasn't that good.