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Against Happiness

In Praise of Melancholy

By Eric G. Wilson

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| Hardcover | 9780374240660

Book Description

Americans are addicted to happiness. When we’re not popping pills, we leaf through scientific studies that take for granted our quest for happiness, or read self-help books by everyone from armchair philosophers and clinical psychologists to the Dalai Lama on how to achieve a trouble-free lifeContinue

2 Reviews

Spectacularly awful writing; sometimes it feels as if the writer was flipping through the thesaurus to find the most obscure word possible to say what could be said in a two-syllable word. As an apologia, the logic was sometimes faulty and the tone supercilious towards the "happy" people. But, bec ... (continue)

Spectacularly awful writing; sometimes it feels as if the writer was flipping through the thesaurus to find the most obscure word possible to say what could be said in a two-syllable word. As an apologia, the logic was sometimes faulty and the tone supercilious towards the "happy" people. But, because I'm a depressive like him, the book made me feel good. Thus the two stars.

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Liked the concept, conclusion is worth reading, but the writing style is a drag.

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