 – Customer review on 04/10/2008
Alain de Botton with his book The Consolations of Philosophy, manages to take on traditionally unapproachable and hard to digest philosophical notions and concepts, and win the battle to explain them to us. He achieves this with his own inimitable style - his writing is direct and straightforward, he has a great sense of humour, and he manages to avoid alienating readers by condescending us (which many philosophical books can tend to do).
De Botton covers a lot of ground in this book - consolation for unpopularity from Socrates, consolation for those lacking money from Epicurus, Stoicism to help us cope with frustration, Schopenhauer to help mend broken hearts and Nietzsche to help us overcome difficulties.
He pulls all of this off with ease - you won't be disappointed with the help that you'll find in this book!!
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