The Great Life: A Man’s Guide to Sports, Skills, Fitness, and Serious Fun
February 19, 2010 by: admin
Product Description
From the editors of Men’s Journal comes a manual for the modern man who believes that life is, or should be, an adventure.
At once entertaining and comprehensive, this book covers Adventure, Competitive Sports, Fitness and Health, Women, Skills, and Vices, with over 150 essays offering the best advice and inspiration from the leading experts in their fields. From learning to skydive to tightening those abs to picking just the right wine–The Great Life is a smart, fast-paced, and user-friendly roadmap to life beyond work and money. Each section is enhanced with sidebars, photos, quotes, charts, quizzes, step-by-step instructions, and pithy cartoons.
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The Great Life: A Man’s Guide to Sports, Skills, Fitness, and Serious Fun
I read PJ O’Rourke monthly column is the Atlantic and find them to be daring, outrageous and insightful. I started subscibing to the Atlanic knowing he would be in there every month. He tavelogues in the Middle East are extremely funny.
Rating: 5 / 5
This is a collection of very easy to read magazine articles.
Some of them are quite good but overall the standard isn’t that high – it seems that P.J. O’Rouke’s name is being used to sell this book, he is not a major contributor.
With some notable exceptions, there is isn’t much depth to most of the articles although some are quite interesting. Most of it is just journalists writing for the sake of writing. Useful in a waiting room, or reading on short train/bus rides.
This book will leave you with a feeling of being unsatisfied.
Rating: 2 / 5
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