Let's Be Less Stupid: An Attempt to Maintain My Mental Faculties
Autor Patricia Marxen Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 iul 2016
In LET'S BE LESS STUPID Patty addresses troubling conundrums, such as: If there are more neural connections in your brain than stars in the Milky Way, why did you put the butter dish in your nightstand drawer? Patty's quest to get smarter includes just about everything: learning Cherokee, popping pills (not the good kind), and listening to--who's the guy who didn't writedum de de dumbut the other one?
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781455554966
ISBN-10: 1455554960
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 127 x 191 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.11 kg
Editura: Grand Central Publishing
Colecția Twelve
ISBN-10: 1455554960
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 127 x 191 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.11 kg
Editura: Grand Central Publishing
Colecția Twelve
Notă biografică
Patricia
Marx
is
a
writer
forThe
New
Yorker,
former
writer
forSaturday
Night
Live,
and
the
first
woman
elected
to
theHarvard
Lampoon.
Her
books
include
the
novelHim
Her
Him
Again
The
End
of
Him,
the
children's
bookNow
Everybody
Really
Hates
Me,
and
the
humor
bookHow
To
Regain
Your
Virginity.
After
writing
this
book,
Patty
Marx
got
so
smart
she
changed
her
name
to
Patricia
Marx.
Recenzii
"Much
the
way
the
movie
'Inside
Out'
does
with
its
11-year-old
protagonist,
Ms.
Marx
takes
us
on
a
guided
tour
of
the
inner
workings
of
her
head...
you
can
dip
in
and
out,
the
way
you
might
take
an
occasional
swig
of
whiskey
(or
whatever
works)
as
a
pick-me-up...Ms.
Marx
might
not
be
everyone's
cup
of
tea.
But
she
is
mine."—New
York
Times
"Frothy, funny, and abounding in quizzes, exercises, and questionnaires...A sly, irreverent take on the latest obsessions regarding self-improvement."—Kirkus
"Equal parts sarcasm, silliness and smarts...Throughout, 'Middle-Age Mad Libs' mock brainteasers and ludicrous quizzes are filled with sharp sendups of our cultural obsessions... anyone clever enough to writeLet's Be Less Stupidis clearly still firing on all cylinders."—NPR Books
"A short and giddy book ...both the author and her humor are sharper than they initially let on."
—Boston Globe
"Patty Marx's unending wit, comedy, insight, and panic are here on display in her new, exciting, book."—Steve Martin
"This book is hilarious. In gleefully mocking her own feeble brain, Patty Marx reveals herself to be downright brilliant. Predictably, her humor is packed with merriment, fizzy wit and belly laughs, but here's the surprise: she brings truckloads of knowledge to her complex subject and even the occasional flash of wisdom."—John Lithgow
"Patty Marx has plenty of advice to help you keep your mind young- while acknowledging how hopeless the dream of maintaining a young brain really is. So, don't think about it; let your mind go blank; look at the pictures, and laugh out loud."—Bill Nye
"Patty Marx's new book on the mind and its slippages is one more welcome Marxian performance: fascinating truths, offered with wit, and wonderful wit, with truth inside it."—Adam Gopnik
"Does laughing out loud make you smarter? Scientists need to study the brains of people right after they've read anything by Patricia Marx." —Andy Borowitz
"Patty Marx is one of the funniest, smartest people I know. I am pretty sure I have gotten smarter, or at least less stupid, since reading this book. You will too!"—Roz Chast
"In this juggernaut trek through various scientific labyrinths, Ms. Marx proves that it takes a huge and powerful brain to find out how stupid you are. Of course, she fails -- in fact seems to lose interest in that dismal quest about halfway through -- but so what; her purpose is to squeeze laughs out of anything and everything she does, or finds out, or screws up. What a brain, and
thus what a book."—Bruce McCall
"I've long had a nagging suspicion that I'm getting stupider by the day. But not until giving myself over to the program put forth in this book--call it "Patty Marx's Bootcamp for the Brain"TM--did I fully grasp the extent of my cognitive decline. I can't remember most of what's in it, but I can say that it's the feel-good read of the season. Especially for people who don't know what season it is." —Meghan Daum
"If you had a conversation with your funniest, smartest friend about your secret fear of losing your mind, this is what it would sound like. Marx's book is hilarious, engaging, and jammed with wonderfully oddball science, delivered with her inimitable wit. A must-read for anyone who has a brain."—Susan Orlean
"Both heart and brains...Since one of the meditation techniques mentioned [in LET'S BE LESS STUPID] is laughter, merely reading this book could help your hippocampus feel the burn. Start with Marx's suggestions, then plot your personal brain boot camp since sadly, liposuction is not an option for shaping up an aging brain."
—BookPage
"Smarten up with Marx's quizzes, brainteasers, anecdotes, and self-help guides while giving your funny bone a witty workout."—Elle
"A smart, often laugh-out-loud exploration of the human brain...hilariously sophisticated, often literally mind-boggling."—Shelf Awareness
"This 'sub-primer' on the neuroscience of intelligence and memory byNew Yorkerstaff writer and master humorist Patricia Marx delivers salutary cognitive jolts amid the general hilarity... If you regularly arrive in rooms with no memory of what you were looking for, this one is for you."—Nature
"Patricia Marx is my favorite kind of humorist. A funny one."
—Omnivoracious
"Frothy, funny, and abounding in quizzes, exercises, and questionnaires...A sly, irreverent take on the latest obsessions regarding self-improvement."—Kirkus
"Equal parts sarcasm, silliness and smarts...Throughout, 'Middle-Age Mad Libs' mock brainteasers and ludicrous quizzes are filled with sharp sendups of our cultural obsessions... anyone clever enough to writeLet's Be Less Stupidis clearly still firing on all cylinders."—NPR Books
"A short and giddy book ...both the author and her humor are sharper than they initially let on."
—Boston Globe
"Patty Marx's unending wit, comedy, insight, and panic are here on display in her new, exciting, book."—Steve Martin
"This book is hilarious. In gleefully mocking her own feeble brain, Patty Marx reveals herself to be downright brilliant. Predictably, her humor is packed with merriment, fizzy wit and belly laughs, but here's the surprise: she brings truckloads of knowledge to her complex subject and even the occasional flash of wisdom."—John Lithgow
"Patty Marx has plenty of advice to help you keep your mind young- while acknowledging how hopeless the dream of maintaining a young brain really is. So, don't think about it; let your mind go blank; look at the pictures, and laugh out loud."—Bill Nye
"Patty Marx's new book on the mind and its slippages is one more welcome Marxian performance: fascinating truths, offered with wit, and wonderful wit, with truth inside it."—Adam Gopnik
"Does laughing out loud make you smarter? Scientists need to study the brains of people right after they've read anything by Patricia Marx." —Andy Borowitz
"Patty Marx is one of the funniest, smartest people I know. I am pretty sure I have gotten smarter, or at least less stupid, since reading this book. You will too!"—Roz Chast
"In this juggernaut trek through various scientific labyrinths, Ms. Marx proves that it takes a huge and powerful brain to find out how stupid you are. Of course, she fails -- in fact seems to lose interest in that dismal quest about halfway through -- but so what; her purpose is to squeeze laughs out of anything and everything she does, or finds out, or screws up. What a brain, and
thus what a book."—Bruce McCall
"I've long had a nagging suspicion that I'm getting stupider by the day. But not until giving myself over to the program put forth in this book--call it "Patty Marx's Bootcamp for the Brain"TM--did I fully grasp the extent of my cognitive decline. I can't remember most of what's in it, but I can say that it's the feel-good read of the season. Especially for people who don't know what season it is." —Meghan Daum
"If you had a conversation with your funniest, smartest friend about your secret fear of losing your mind, this is what it would sound like. Marx's book is hilarious, engaging, and jammed with wonderfully oddball science, delivered with her inimitable wit. A must-read for anyone who has a brain."—Susan Orlean
"Both heart and brains...Since one of the meditation techniques mentioned [in LET'S BE LESS STUPID] is laughter, merely reading this book could help your hippocampus feel the burn. Start with Marx's suggestions, then plot your personal brain boot camp since sadly, liposuction is not an option for shaping up an aging brain."
—BookPage
"Smarten up with Marx's quizzes, brainteasers, anecdotes, and self-help guides while giving your funny bone a witty workout."—Elle
"A smart, often laugh-out-loud exploration of the human brain...hilariously sophisticated, often literally mind-boggling."—Shelf Awareness
"This 'sub-primer' on the neuroscience of intelligence and memory byNew Yorkerstaff writer and master humorist Patricia Marx delivers salutary cognitive jolts amid the general hilarity... If you regularly arrive in rooms with no memory of what you were looking for, this one is for you."—Nature
"Patricia Marx is my favorite kind of humorist. A funny one."
—Omnivoracious