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Heidegger And A Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates: Using Philosophy (and Jokes!) To Explore Life, Death, The Afterlife, And Everything In Between (2009)

by Thomas Cathcart(Favorite Author)

3.61 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0670020834 (ISBN13: 9780670020836)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Viking Adult

review 1: I listened to this in the car. I think if I'd actually had to move my eyes, I wouldn't have finished it. I think the problem is that surface-level philosophy doesn't pack as much of a punch, and they were really just doing an overview of a bunch of philosophers' views on X. Also, while many jokes do have a philosophical viewpoint, I felt like a lot of these were stretching. It might make a better blog or something. Where you can do one joke, then the philosophy behind it. But what do I know?Hearing it read by the authors made it a bit more irritating. Maybe it's because a lot of the jokes were lame, and it reminded me of hanging out with the old guys in the balcony from the Muppet Show. So picture those guys talking about philosophy for about 4 hours. Well, that sounds pre... moretty good. Stop picturing that. It wasn't that good.
review 2: When I saw this in the English bookstore in Brussels, the same where I bought "Plato and a platypus walk into a bar", I didn't even think twice and immediately bought it. I liked this one a lot, because it incorporated a lot of the philosophers I read about this year for my big philosophy essay, and it discussed the philosophers more 'in depth' than it did in 'Plato and a platypus', but that's probably because in the first one they had to talk about EVERYTHING and right now it was just death (etc.). The beginning was great, the part about cloning and immortality was a little too much for me, but in general it was absolutely great.I just really like books that make me feel smart. less

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