Don't Get Too Comfortable - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Don't Get Too Comfortable write by David Rakoff. This book was released on 2010-06-04. Don't Get Too Comfortable available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Indignities of Coach Class, the Torments of Low Thread Count, the Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems David Rakoff’s collection of autobiographical essays, Fraud, established him as one of our funniest, most insightful writers. In Don’t Get Too Comfortable, Rakoff journeys into the land of plenty that is contemporary North America. Rarely have greed, vanity, selfishness, and vapidity been so mercilessly and wittily portrayed. Whether contrasting the elegance of one of the last flights of the supersonic Concorde with the good times and chicken wings of Hooters Air, portraying the rarified universe of Paris fashion shows where an evening dress can cost as much as four years of college, or traveling to a private island off the coast of Belize to watch a soft-core Playboy TV shoot, where he is provided with his very own personal manservant, David Rakoff takes us on a bitingly funny grand tour of our culture of excess, delving into the manic getting and spending that defines the North American way of life. Somewhere along the line, our healthy self-regard has exploded into obliterating narcissism, and Rakoff is there to map that frontier. He sits through the grotesqueries of “avant garde” vaudeville in Times Square immediately following 9/11. Twenty days without food allows him to experience firsthand the wonders of “detoxification,” and the frozen world of cryonics, whose promise of eternal life is the ultimate status symbol, leaves him very cold indeed (much to our good fortune). At once a Wildean satire of our ridiculous culture of overconsumption and a plea for a little human decency, Don’t Get Too Comfortable is a bitingly funny grand tour of our special circle of gilded-age hell.
Don't Get Too Comfortable
Don't Get Too Comfortable - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Don't Get Too Comfortable write by David Rakoff. This book was released on 2005-09-20. Don't Get Too Comfortable available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A bitingly funny grand tour of our culture of excess from an award-winning humorist. Whether David Rakoff is contrasting the elegance of one of the last flights of the supersonic Concorde with the good-times-and-chicken-wings populism of Hooters Air; working as a cabana boy at a South Beach hotel; or traveling to a private island off the coast of Belize to watch a soft-core video shoot—where he is provided with his very own personal manservant—rarely have greed, vanity, selfishness, and vapidity been so mercilessly skewered. Somewhere along the line, our healthy self-regard has exploded into obliterating narcissism; our manic getting and spending have now become celebrated as moral virtues. Simultaneously a Wildean satire and a plea for a little human decency, Don’t Get Too Comfortable shows that far from being bobos in paradise, we’re in a special circle of gilded-age hell. This edition includes an excerpt from David Rakoff's Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish.
The Century
The Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Century write by . This book was released on 1916. The Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
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Murder in the Office - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Murder in the Office write by Birgitta Berghammar. This book was released on 2023-11-12. Murder in the Office available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Murder In the Office Part VII in the series is about PI Simon Fintch. In this episode, Simon solves a murder case in which the police have again found no significant clues. It is also very difficult for Simon to find the motive and the perpetrator. In his search for a motive, he comes for a short visit to Sweden. It is by pure event that Simon gets a clue that leads him further in the case. Throughout this time, he has struggled with his unhappy marriage. During this time, he will discover his own life situation and what will be required of him in the future, if he wants to maintain his lifestyle and, above all, what he loves the most in this world, his son Adam. After Simon has managed to solve the case, it remains for him to create his future. It will be in a completely unexpected way for him. It also ends in a completely different way than he had expected, both for him and for his wife Bee.
Century Monthly Magazine
Century Monthly Magazine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Century Monthly Magazine write by . This book was released on 1915. Century Monthly Magazine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
