Anneli Rufus
Auteur van Party of One: The Loner's Manifesto
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- Gangbare naam
- Rufus, Anneli
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Rufus, Anneli S.
- Geboortedatum
- 1959-06-24
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Opleiding
- University of California, Berkeley
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- Populariteit
- #16,504
- Waardering
- 3.6
- Besprekingen
- 36
- ISBNs
- 31
OK, I must admit that it took me a while to get into this book. I thought of returning it many times to the library but just never did mainly because I just didn't have any errands to do near the library.
As the title suggests, it's a book about being stuck. The authors pulls stories from all over the place and I think it became mostly a personal narrative. I would read one story and think this book was trivial. Inane. Silly. However, the next story would make me pause and make me excited (or sickened) to be a human.
It's a soft kind of book. It doesn't really have a main purpose or big climax. It meanders this way and that. It started as a lump of clay ready to be molded into something wonderful and beautiful. In the end, it's still a lump of clay. Wonderful and beautiful.
This book isn't for everyone. If you're looking for a roller coaster, look elsewhere. This is more just like a pleasant walk on the same road that you walk every day with a good friend - and subtly seeing everything just a little different.… (meer)