A Philistine's Journal- an Average Guy Tackles the Classics (Book, 13.99)

What happens when an average suburban schmo decides to go back and read all the books he should have read in college? The results are both insightful and hilarious.

"...a hilarious study of the classics by a very funny man" Grand Rapids Press

Brushed up on your Epictetus lately?

Have you really read the Odyssey?

Who's Montaigne and what's the big hairy deal?

Don't feel bad, Wayne Turmel didn't know either. He's just your typical suburban 40-something wtih a community-college education and a half decent job. Like many of us, he'd heard about the Classics but never actually read them.

Then he hit his mid-life crisis. What did those Dead
White Guysknow that he didn't? Do they have anything to say to us
still?

A 1-year slog through the classics of Western Literature resulted in this hilarious and sometimes insightful book. It's a combination of thoughts and meditations on what he read, as well as big honkin' samples of the books in question so you can honestly say you read a chapter of Robinson Crusoe, or Emerson's Divinity School Address. This book is the inspiration for the dedications and quotes on The Cranky Middle Manager Show.

Hey- people will think you're smart. Like, winning-on-Jeopardy smart. You'll laugh and want to explore more.

ISBN 1-930076-13-4

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