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Adam Gopnik

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Adam Gopnik is the author of Paris to the Moon and Through the Children's Gate and is a contributor to The New Yorker. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children. His most recent book is Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln and Modern Life, a comparison about how those visa mer men changed our nation with their history-making actions. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre

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Paris to the Moon (2000) 2,777 exemplar
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The Best American Essays 2008 (2008) — Redaktör — 290 exemplar
Evidence: 1944-1994 (1994) 109 exemplar
High and Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture {catalog} (1991) — Redaktör — 105 exemplar
The Steps Across the Water (2010) 56 exemplar
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Parisians (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 27 exemplar
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The Real Work (2023) 6 exemplar
Ed Ruscha: Paintings (2002) 4 exemplar
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The title is attractive, as it promises to tell us how to achieve mastery, but the text is somewhat disappointing, as it turns out to be a somewhat intellectual essay on obscure things like practicing magic tricks (we all know that there isn't a real magic that goes beyond the rules of physics and mechanics). Even the section on music fails to instruct. It reads like articles in a 'smart' magazine.
 
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Dilip-Kumar | 2 andra recensioner | Jun 7, 2023 |
This book was a treat that I devoured voraciously. It takes the reader on such an amazing journey through so many different subjects, all on the topic of the ability of humans to master so many amazing skills. It was though provoking and intellectually stimulating and the writing is MASTERFUL!

The author introduces us to some unique topics and gives us some background on both the subject and perhaps some of its history, and, in the case of the topic of magicians, the background of some of the masters in the industry. In other chapters we are taken on some of the author's personal quests, trials and tribulations and filled in on some of his background as well as that of his family, which I found absolutely fascinating. (I didn't know that there was a PhD program in Mathematical Logic!). His parents' retirement "farm"? sounds like a fairytale town that would delight grown ups as well as children.

I found Gopnik's writing mesmerizing. It drew me in and made me concentrate long and hard as it tried to go over my head and I kept reaching for it and drawing it back in, not letting it get the better of me.

His drive and ability to learn new things in the later part of life are such a positive force and good example for all of us. And there's a bad pun at the beginning of this paragraph--however, driving is one of those things he took on in this later stage of life and his description of his driver's ed teacher is heartwarming. We could all use someone like that in our life!

All in all, I heartily recommend this book AND this writer.
… (mer)
 
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shirfire218 | 2 andra recensioner | Jun 6, 2023 |

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44
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Medlemmar
6,006
Popularitet
#4,100
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3.8
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100
ISBN
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