Tom Hodgkinson
This is a funny, literary book that provokes the reader to reflect on just how balanced his life really is. If the reader isn’t a troubled workaholic who needs a wake up call, but rather a slacker, well, Hodgkinson provides some marvelous justifications for taking the road less busy. For instance, in the chapter “6 P. M.: First Drink of the Day”, he says, “Sensible people advise against drinking on an empty stomach, but to my mind it is the best sort of drinking.” But he’s not just funny, he’s thought-provoking:
The difficulty is that we get ourselves caught in a double bind: we work so hard that we do not allow ourselves time to dream, and therefore we continue to work hard because we have not had the time to dream up an alternative.