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How I Became Stupid Author: Ignorance is bliss, or so hopes Antoine, the lead character in Martin Page’s stinging satire, How I Became Stupid—a modern day Candide with a Darwin Award–like sensibility. A twenty-five-year-old Aramaic scholar, Antoine has had it with being brilliant and deeply self-aware in today’s culture. So tortured i... more »
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5 member(s) found this review helpful.
I found this book to be just ok. I don't know if something was lost in translation or what. I felt that it could have been written better. It's a bit over the top, making you feel like this guy was stupid already, so why was he trying to become stupid? There were some parts I would have liked to see expanded upon with a more detail than the author gave them. The ending left me feeling a bit confused.
5 member(s) found this review helpful.
Boring, boring, boring.
3 member(s) found this review helpful.
A funny, outrageous, quirky, and puzzling novel that asks: What if ignorance really IS bliss? Does happiness follow if we become stupid, if we discard intellect, self-knowledge and a regard for the consequences of our actions?
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