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A Place of My Own
- The Architecture of Daydreams
- Narrateur(s): Michael Pollan
- Durée: 9 h et 42 min
- Catégories: Maison et jardin, Maison et habitation
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Second Nature
- A Gardener's Education
- Auteur(s): Michael Pollan
- Narrateur(s): Michael Pollan
- Durée: 9 h et 1 min
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In his articles and in best-selling books such as The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan has established himself as one of our most important and beloved writers on modern man's place in the natural world. A new literary classic, Second Nature has become a manifesto not just for gardeners but for environmentalists everywhere.
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Caffeine
- How Caffeine Created the Modern World
- Auteur(s): Michael Pollan
- Narrateur(s): Michael Pollan
- Durée: 2 h et 2 min
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Michael Pollan, known for his best-selling nonfiction audio, including The Omnivores Dilemma and How to Change Your Mind, conceived and wrote Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World as an Audible Original. In this controversial and exciting listen, Pollan explores caffeine’s power as the most-used drug in the world - and the only one we give to children (in soda pop) as a treat.
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Not what i expected
- Écrit par Andre Brisson le 2020-06-22
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Cooked
- A Natural History of Transformation
- Auteur(s): Michael Pollan
- Narrateur(s): Michael Pollan
- Durée: 13 h et 25 min
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In Cooked, Michael Pollan explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen. Here, he discovers the enduring power of the four classical elements - fire, water, air, and earth - to transform the stuff of nature into delicious things to eat and drink. Apprenticing himself to a succession of culinary masters, Pollan learns how to grill with fire, cook with liquid, bake bread, and ferment everything from cheese to beer. In the course of his journey, he discovers that the cook occupies a special place in the world....
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Fire, Water, Air, Earth Cooking!
- Écrit par Barbara Appleton le 2020-09-19
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The Omnivore's Dilemma
- A Natural History of Four Meals
- Auteur(s): Michael Pollan
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
- Durée: 15 h et 53 min
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"What should we have for dinner?" To one degree or another, this simple question assails any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat. Anthropologists call it the omnivore's dilemma. Choosing from among the countless potential foods nature offers, humans have had to learn what is safe, and what isn't. Today, as America confronts what can only be described as a national eating disorder, the omnivore's dilemma has returned with an atavistic vengeance.
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Awful
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2020-06-23
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Food Rules
- An Eater's Manual
- Auteur(s): Michael Pollan
- Narrateur(s): Michael Pollan
- Durée: 1 h et 20 min
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Eating doesn't have to be so complicated. In this age of ever-more elaborate diets and conflicting health advice, Food Rules brings welcome simplicity to our daily decisions about food. Written with clarity, concision, and wit that has become best-selling author Michael Pollan's trademark, this indispensable handbook lays out a set of straightforward, memorable rules for eating wisely, minute by minute, accompanied by a concise explanation.
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Fine, but overlaps In Defence of Food
- Écrit par Watsn le 2020-07-01
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In Defense of Food
- An Eater's Manifesto
- Auteur(s): Michael Pollan
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
- Durée: 6 h et 22 min
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In the so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusion - most of what we’re consuming today is longer the product of nature but of food science. The result is what Michael Pollan calls the American Paradox: The more we worry about nutrition, the less healthy we seem to become. With In Defense of Food, Pollan proposes a new (and very old) answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
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A life changer book on food and diet
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2018-11-27
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Second Nature
- A Gardener's Education
- Auteur(s): Michael Pollan
- Narrateur(s): Michael Pollan
- Durée: 9 h et 1 min
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In his articles and in best-selling books such as The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan has established himself as one of our most important and beloved writers on modern man's place in the natural world. A new literary classic, Second Nature has become a manifesto not just for gardeners but for environmentalists everywhere.
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Caffeine
- How Caffeine Created the Modern World
- Auteur(s): Michael Pollan
- Narrateur(s): Michael Pollan
- Durée: 2 h et 2 min
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Michael Pollan, known for his best-selling nonfiction audio, including The Omnivores Dilemma and How to Change Your Mind, conceived and wrote Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World as an Audible Original. In this controversial and exciting listen, Pollan explores caffeine’s power as the most-used drug in the world - and the only one we give to children (in soda pop) as a treat.
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Not what i expected
- Écrit par Andre Brisson le 2020-06-22
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Cooked
- A Natural History of Transformation
- Auteur(s): Michael Pollan
- Narrateur(s): Michael Pollan
- Durée: 13 h et 25 min
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In Cooked, Michael Pollan explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen. Here, he discovers the enduring power of the four classical elements - fire, water, air, and earth - to transform the stuff of nature into delicious things to eat and drink. Apprenticing himself to a succession of culinary masters, Pollan learns how to grill with fire, cook with liquid, bake bread, and ferment everything from cheese to beer. In the course of his journey, he discovers that the cook occupies a special place in the world....
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Fire, Water, Air, Earth Cooking!
- Écrit par Barbara Appleton le 2020-09-19
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The Omnivore's Dilemma
- A Natural History of Four Meals
- Auteur(s): Michael Pollan
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
- Durée: 15 h et 53 min
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"What should we have for dinner?" To one degree or another, this simple question assails any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat. Anthropologists call it the omnivore's dilemma. Choosing from among the countless potential foods nature offers, humans have had to learn what is safe, and what isn't. Today, as America confronts what can only be described as a national eating disorder, the omnivore's dilemma has returned with an atavistic vengeance.
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Awful
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2020-06-23
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Food Rules
- An Eater's Manual
- Auteur(s): Michael Pollan
- Narrateur(s): Michael Pollan
- Durée: 1 h et 20 min
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Eating doesn't have to be so complicated. In this age of ever-more elaborate diets and conflicting health advice, Food Rules brings welcome simplicity to our daily decisions about food. Written with clarity, concision, and wit that has become best-selling author Michael Pollan's trademark, this indispensable handbook lays out a set of straightforward, memorable rules for eating wisely, minute by minute, accompanied by a concise explanation.
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Fine, but overlaps In Defence of Food
- Écrit par Watsn le 2020-07-01
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In Defense of Food
- An Eater's Manifesto
- Auteur(s): Michael Pollan
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
- Durée: 6 h et 22 min
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In the so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusion - most of what we’re consuming today is longer the product of nature but of food science. The result is what Michael Pollan calls the American Paradox: The more we worry about nutrition, the less healthy we seem to become. With In Defense of Food, Pollan proposes a new (and very old) answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
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A life changer book on food and diet
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2018-11-27
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The Botany of Desire
- Auteur(s): Michael Pollan
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
- Durée: 8 h et 49 min
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Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers' genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship.
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wonderful
- Écrit par Rayne le 2019-08-19
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How to Change Your Mind
- What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
- Auteur(s): Michael Pollan
- Narrateur(s): Michael Pollan
- Durée: 13 h et 35 min
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When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are being used to provide relief to people suffering from difficult-to-treat conditions such as depression, addiction, and anxiety, he did not intend to write what is undoubtedly his most personal book. But upon discovering how these remarkable substances are improving the lives not only of the mentally ill but also of healthy people coming to grips with the challenges of everyday life, he decided to explore the landscape of the mind in the first person as well as the third.
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Educational, enlightening, and optimistic.
- Écrit par Bryar C le 2018-05-31
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Think Like an Architect
- Roger Fullington Series in Architecture
- Auteur(s): Hal Box
- Narrateur(s): Mark D. Mickelson
- Durée: 7 h et 6 min
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The design of cities and buildings affects the quality of our lives. Making the built environment useful, safe, comfortable, efficient, and as beautiful as possible is a universal quest. We dream about how we might live, work, and play. From these dreams come some 95 percent of all private and public buildings; professional architects design only about five percent of the built environment.
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loved it, BAS
- Écrit par Matt Steacy le 2018-07-07
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The Well-Gardened Mind
- The Restorative Power of Nature
- Auteur(s): Sue Stuart-Smith
- Narrateur(s): Sue Stuart-Smith
- Durée: 11 h et 31 min
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The Well-Gardened Mind provides a new perspective on the power of gardening to change people’s lives. Here, Sue Stuart-Smith investigates the many ways in which mind and garden can interact and explores how the process of tending a plot can be a way of sustaining an innermost self. Stuart-Smith’s own love of gardening developed as she studied to become a psychoanalytic psychotherapist.
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Author reading doesn't work
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2020-09-13
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- 50th Anniversary Edition
- Auteur(s): Jane Jacobs, Jason Epstein (introduction)
- Narrateur(s): Donna Rawlins
- Durée: 18 h
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Thirty years after its publication, The Death and Life of Great American Cities was described by The New York Times as "perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning....[It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It is first of all a work of literature; the descriptions of street life as a kind of ballet and the bitingly satiric account of traditional planning theory can still be read for pleasure even by those who long ago absorbed and appropriated the book's arguments."
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A must-read for any avid Reader.
- Écrit par Monique Osborne le 2020-04-25
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Peter Mayle's Provence: Including 'A Year in Provence' and 'Toujours Provence'
- Auteur(s): Peter Mayle
- Narrateur(s): Peter Mayle, Patrick Macnee
- Durée: 6 h et 5 min
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When Peter Mayle and his wife traded England's long, gray winters and damp summers for life in southern France, they entered an enchanting, wonderful, sometimes bewildering world. Now, share their adventures, pleasures, and frustrations: the joys and occasional hazards of wining and dining in France, taking part in goat races, attending a Pavorotti concert under the stars - and much more.
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Well written, well read. A must!
- Écrit par Pieter Loots le 2018-04-23
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The Best of Me
- Auteur(s): David Sedaris
- Narrateur(s): David Sedaris
- Durée: 13 h et 8 min
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For more than 25 years, David Sedaris has been carving out a unique literary space, virtually creating his own genre. A Sedaris story may seem confessional, but is also highly attuned to the world outside. It opens our eyes to what is at absurd and moving about our daily existence. And it is almost impossible to hear without laughing. Now, for the first time collected in one volume, the author brings us his funniest and most memorable work.
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You can't go wrong with Sedaris
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2020-11-13
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Entangled Life
- How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
- Auteur(s): Merlin Sheldrake
- Narrateur(s): Merlin Sheldrake
- Durée: 9 h et 32 min
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When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight, yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems. Fungi provide a key to understanding the planet on which we live, and the ways we think, feel, and behave. In Entangled Life, the brilliant young biologist Merlin Sheldrake shows us the world from a fungal point of view, providing an exhilarating change of perspective.
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Great listen
- Écrit par Rachel Ridley le 2020-11-16
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Humankind
- A Hopeful History
- Auteur(s): Rutger Bregman, Erica Moore, Elizabeth Manton
- Narrateur(s): Rutger Bregman, Thomas Judd
- Durée: 11 h et 37 min
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If there is one belief that has united the left and the right, psychologists and philosophers, ancient thinkers and modern ones, it is the tacit assumption that humans are bad. It's a notion that drives newspaper headlines and guides the laws that shape our lives. From Machiavelli to Hobbes, Freud to Pinker, the roots of this belief have sunk deep into Western thought. Human beings, we're taught, are by nature selfish and governed primarily by self-interest.
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Great book, truly eye opening.
- Écrit par Darren Stamos le 2021-01-26
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The Third Plate
- Field Notes on the Future of Food
- Auteur(s): Dan Barber
- Narrateur(s): Dan Barber
- Durée: 14 h et 30 min
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The Third Plate is chef Dan Barber’s extraordinary vision for a new future of American eating. After more than a decade spent investigating farming communities around the world in pursuit of singular flavor, Barber finally concluded that - for the sake of our food, our health, and the future of the land - America’s cuisine required a radical transformation.
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You Can Farm
- The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise
- Auteur(s): Joel Salatin
- Narrateur(s): Joel Salatin
- Durée: 14 h et 11 min
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Have you ever desired, deep within your soul, to make a comfortable full-time living from a farming enterprise? Too often people dare not even vocalize this desire because it seems absurd. It's like thinking the unthinkable. After all, the farm population is dwindling. It takes too much capital to start. The pay is too low. The working conditions are dusty, smelly and noisy: Not the place to raise a family. This is all true, and more, for most farmers.
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Wonderfully motivating
- Écrit par AL le 2020-11-16
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Medium Raw
- A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
- Auteur(s): Anthony Bourdain
- Narrateur(s): Anthony Bourdain
- Durée: 8 h et 59 min
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In the 10 years since his classic Kitchen Confidential first alerted us to the idiosyncrasies and lurking perils of eating out, much has changed for the subculture of chefs and cooks, for the restaurant business and for Anthony Bourdain. Medium Raw explores those changes, tracking Bourdain's strange and unexpected voyage from journeyman cook to globe-traveling professional eater and drinker, and even to fatherhood. Bourdain takes no prisoners as he dissects what he's seen.
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it might be just the utter respect for the legend
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2020-08-03
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Michael Pollan’s unmatched ability to draw lines of connection between our everyday experiences - whether eating, gardening, or building - and the natural world has been the basis for the popular success of his many works of nonfiction, including the genre-defining best sellers The Botany of Desire, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, and In Defense of Food. With this updated edition of his earlier book, A Place of My Own, listeners can revisit the inspired, intelligent, and often hilarious story of Pollan’s realization of a room of his own—a small, wooden hut, his “shelter for daydreams” — built with his admittedly unhandy hands. Inspired by both Thoreau and Mr. Blandings, A Place of My Own not only works to convey the history and meaning of all human building, it also marks the connections between our bodies, our minds, and the natural world.
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- justin chidester
- 2012-05-07
Pollan is a great narrator
It would be nice if Michael Pollan would narrate the rest of his books. Scott Brick's voice to me just doesn't suit Pollan's writing. I love his use of language, and also how he goes into detail about his research of every issue. A very interesting listen even if you have no desire to build anything of your own.
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- Mary
- 2012-02-05
Great writer, just not my fave of his books.
Any additional comments?
I hate to put a lower review, because Pollan is a fabulous writer, researcher, storyteller. It's only because this book (along with Second Nature) is completely different from his books The Omnivore's Dilemma, In Defense of Food, and Botany of Desire. The latter three, I devoured (pun intended), but I couldn't get through much of this one or Second Nature. They're terrific, if you like slow meditative autobiographical stories, but that's not my kind of thing.
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- Gabrielle
- 2013-05-09
Satisfying & I didn't even have to get a splinter.
What did you love best about A Place of My Own?
This book is a wonderful journey for the mind and through Michael Pollan's building adventure. I particularly love Pollan's ability to approach theoretical concepts in a way that actually makes the process interesting and fun, it's like what they wanted to teach you at university (in a BA program) but were usually unable to achieve. Pollan brings the wishy-washy ponce that is architectural theory and sheds light on the primal and emotional aspects that make the art a tangible concept when understanding one's feelings about a space or the importance of dwellings.
What other book might you compare A Place of My Own to and why?
It is like an academic text on the philosophy behind architectural theory, but much more fun.
Which character – as performed by Michael Pollan – was your favorite?
Himself, but I particularly liked the way Pollan wrote about Joe. Not for the gun-control, conspiracy-theorist aspect but for the way Pollan described the depths beneath the blunt handyman exterior and what I see as a yearning for knowledge without the benefits of a background focused on education or skeptical research and critical thinking. I see much of this in my own renovation tradesmen.
What’s the most interesting tidbit you’ve picked up from this book?
I learned about balloon framing! I now look at pine forests and housing estates in a completely new way! Also: the value of meandering garden paths to my studio (which presupposes one has a phone line in the studio or else an answering machine in the house), a better understanding of shingles, sympathy for builders in cold areas dealing with the ravages of frost, an eye tuned to nostalgia in postmodern architecture, appreciation for a well sealed roof, and satisfying smugness for my solid stone country house and renewed awe for the previous owner who built it (and the garden studio) who did it mainly by 'feel'.
Any additional comments?
I wonder if Michael ever used his daybed or if it just ended up as another horizontal place to put piles of documents and books?
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- Darwin8u
- 2015-02-28
Pollan is the master of hipster porn
I adore Michael Pollan. Sometimes, however, he comes across as a bit too foodie-East Coast-hipster, but his writing and perspectives keep pulling me back. His writing all seems to contain the same germ or basic theme. Whether he is writing about food, gardening, cooking, or building a house/writing room, Pollan gravitates towards simplicity and sustainability. It is like having a quirky, Jewish Zen master show you how to build a house or cook a meal. Yes. Be one with your potato.
'A Place of My Own' is an early Pollan book where he relates his experiences building a writing shed, a small backyard 104-square-foot outbuilding where he can dream, escape, imagine and write. It is part: 'A Room of One's Own' + 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' + 'Walden' + 'Shop Class as Soulcraft'. Pollen is looking at the value of solitude, space, work, nature, etc., in a modern technological age.
Pollan is the Jenna Jameson of hipster porn. I WANT to build my own cabin on family land in Idaho. I want to buy all my food in local, Saturday neighborhood markets. I want to tramp around the woods looking for mushrooms and figure out a way to feed my family in a sustainable and healthy way EVERYDAY. But most days reality just sits on me and I grab some canned crap from Walmart, maybe get my veggies from Sprouts and Fresh and Easy (or as my wife calls it Cheap and Sleazy) and go back to my suburban tract home. Pollen gives me room to fantasize about what part of my brain wants to, but isn't totally able to do -- escape, simplify, and double down on the urban, lumbersexual hipster hiding inside of me. I can't build a small outdoor cabin in my backyard, but I can fantasize about it for a couple hours while I read Pollan in the dark. And maybe, one day, I can pick up that hammer, eat that shroom, and start BANGIN'.
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- Bill
- 2014-11-28
Nice job making building process interesting
Would you recommend A Place of My Own to your friends? Why or why not?
I could not universally recommend this book; however, I would definitely recommend it to friends interested in building. Michael is a good writer and packs in a lot of history and evolution of buildings into his personal story. On occasion, I just could not relate to Michael's experience because his portrayal of himself as an average guy didn't ring true. Most average guys cannot afford to hire an architect and builder to fulfill their dream of a cabin dedicated to writing on the back of their Connecticut property using special lumber. Michael should be commended for co-bulding along side the contractor but this the tale of a privileged man not a regular Joe.
What does Michael Pollan bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
I probably would not have finished the book if I read it myself. Having the author read it, made the long descriptions more palable.
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- Buy Stuff
- 2020-04-29
Great!
Pollan did an amazing job as always. This was an absolute joy to listen to!
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- john butler
- 2016-05-05
Micheal Pollan makes me want to build a shack in the woods!
The story of Micheal Pollan's writing house's construction ( as this story is in part ) is also a celebration of the incalculable. The things that can't be measured; at least in the normal and worldly ways. These un-metricable ( if you will excuse a made up term ) things can be the satisfaction of learning the use of a chisel,or to be more correct, the feeling of accomplishment that the learned use can bring. It can also be the age old war that rages ( cold and hot ) between builders and designers ( and perhaps the bridging of the gap between them ). Pollan lays these things bare, in a friendly and warm light, his mild and intriguing voice propelling you through dialog and situation that may be thick and academic at once and earthy at another. I would recommend this fine novel to anyone , and I owe my own reading ( well, listening ) of it to another fine novel by Nick Offerman ( " Gumption" by name ) lest I had listened to it, I would never had heard of Michael Pollan . Two thumbs up for " A Place of My Own"! Well done sir!
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- Blonda
- 2021-01-10
Deep into the emotion of...
I must disclose that I think Michael Pollan is one of our greatest minds. That said, his personal, philosophical story of building this place was everything I could have hoped for. From the designing, siting, essential collaborations to choosing the views, specific woods and other materials all made this fun and self reflective.
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- William
- 2021-01-01
Fine story, very academic
To begin, I have this book in print. I struggled to finish it, thought the audiobook would be easier. And while it was nice to hear the author's voice, the book is very in-depth, but in a different direction I would have liked.
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- George
- 2020-07-05
self indulgent and boring
10 hours the could have fit into 20 minutes. A book that should have been an essay..