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How I Became Stupid

Martin Page

Paperback | Pages: 160 pages

Rating: 3.39 | 9002 Users | 918 Reviews

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Original Title:	Comment je suis devenu stupide
ISBN:	0142004952 (ISBN13: 9780142004951)
Edition Language:	English

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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 is he by the depth of his perception and understanding of himself and the world around him that he vows to denounce his intelligence by any means necessary in order to become stupid enough to be a happy, functioning member of society. What follows is a dark and hilarious odyssey as Antoine tries everything from alcoholism to stock-trading in order to lighten the burden of his brain on his soul.

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Title	:	How I Became Stupid
Author	:	Martin Page
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 160 pages
Published	:	November 30th 2004 by Penguin Books (first published 2000)
Categories	:	Fiction. Humor. Cultural. France. Novels. Contemporary. European Literature. French Literature. Literature

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More like a 2.9While I read the book, my feelings for it were up and down. I read a passage that made we want to give the book rating of 5. Then something else made me want to give the book a 2. later I would read something else that made we want to rate the book a 4. It went on like this until the last word of the book. I wonder how much of the the meaning of the book was lost in translation. Although it should not be much since French is a Romantic language and English is built off the back of

I am hugely attracted to books set in France, especially when they are written by French authors. This is what happens when you are a Francophile. Unfortunately, being a Francophile also leads me down garden paths and allows me to dip myself into some seriously underwhelming novels. This is one of these novels.The idea is interesting, but that is where it stops. The characters start off interesting - such as Antoine's friend who can speak only in rhyme - but they are only ever introduced; no one

This book made me dislike the French. It was just terrible. And unpleasant to read. Though, the character Aas was so cool, he should have his book with actual dialogue from him instead of saying something like, "Aas told me I was a jerk in a haiku." I want the haiku instead.

A thoughtful, sarcastic, sad, hilarious, disturbing, lovely little book.Antoine decides to stop thinking and heed Flaubert's injunction: To be stupid, selfish and healthy are the three requirements to be happy, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.To be happy, he will strip himself of his social conscience, his thoughtful sensitivity, his few friends, even "his precious and individual limited editions", books painfully reconstituted, page by page.Further to buck his crippling awareness

This is a weird little book that can best be described as, well, French. Each major scene, roughly circumscribed within an unnumbered, untitled chapter, proceeds with little to zero preamble or exposition, which means that you just kind of have to accept that what occurs has a logic beyond that of narrative (because man you could pretty much rearrange what happens here and get the same effect). So then what are we left with? We're left with a sort of long meditation on what it would be like to

Are you morose? Does your intelligence get in the way of your happiness? Then move along, this book is not for you.Draw an equilateral triangle. Label each vertex: "Candide", by Voltaire; "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", by Douglas Adams; "Venus on the Half-Shell", by Kilgore Trout.Now plot a point in the middle of the triangle, but a little off-center, somewhere between Hitchhiker's Guide and Half-Shell. That is where this novel wants to be, in pattern and poise, but is not.If you want

one of the best concepts ever... intelligent guy decides the reason he's miserable is because he's TOO intelligent, so decides to become stupid. HOWEVER, much like the shitty films of M. Night Shyamalan, it fails to live up to the brilliance of its premise. I wish I could tell you specific reasons why I ended up flinging it at the wall, but I've shut it out to make way for more useful things in my brain.