What's the hurry?(In Praise of Slowness: How a Worldwide Movement Is Challenging the Cult of Speed)(Book Review)

From: The Progressive | Date: March 1, 2005| Author: DiNovella, Elizabeth | Copyright information

In Praise of Slowness: How a Worldwide Movement Is Challenging the Cult of Speed by Carl Honore HarperSanFrancisco. 310 pages. $24.95.

Carl Honore recognizes the buzz speed induces. And that s why his book In Praise of Slowness is worth reading. He's not some Luddite who curses the invention of e-mail and BlackBerrys. Nor is he a hippie urging us to go back to the land and to the natural rhythms of country life. Honore is a busy Londoner trying to figure out how to take t...

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