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Monkey Mind
- A Memoir of Anxiety
- De: Daniel Smith
- Narrado por: Richard Powers
- Duración: 7 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 205
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 180
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 178
In the insightful narrative tradition of Oliver Sacks, Monkey Mind is an uplifting, smart, and very funny memoir of life with anxiety - America’s most common psychological complaint. We all think we know what being anxious feels like - it is the instinct that made us run from wolves in the prehistoric age and pushes us to perform in the modern one - but for forty million American adults, anxiety is an insidious condition that defines daily life. Yet no popular memoir has been written about that experience - until now.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Very Dissappointing!
- De Robin en 07-09-12
- Monkey Mind
- A Memoir of Anxiety
- De: Daniel Smith
- Narrado por: Richard Powers
Smart, original, charming and damned funny too
Revisado: 03-25-17
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
A wonderful, witty and poignant book that I'd highly recommend. I admire the honesty and bravery of this work. It's easy to identify with Smith’s anxiety, especially in his younger years. In college, he describes his inability to be social, to make friends even with his roommate, a fellow anxiety sufferer: “We should have been up on our bunks trading pills like they were baseball cards.” There's also a memorable scene where the author, suffering for years from profuse sweating, finds a harebrained solution in the feminine hygiene aisle of CVS. It's both humorous and heartbreaking.
What did you like best about this story?
My favorite scene is when Daniel Smith’s father gives him the “Birds and the Bees” talk by playing the Meatloaf song “Paradise by the Dashboard Light.” (The author, in his early teens, believes the song is about baseball.) Or maybe the scene where Smith describes his personal appearance: “The muscles that connect the head to the shoulders were, in my case, perpetually clenched – a condition that, had I weighed more than 120 pounds, might have made me look like a villain on the pro wrestling circuit playing to the crowd.” Or maybe the one where Smith loses his virginity, which his overprotective, overbearing mother calls “rape.”
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
Smith’s memoir doesn’t really lend itself to a tag line, which is why I like it. Perhaps, “Monkey Mind does for anxiety what William Styron’s Darkness Visible did for depression.” However, this book is more accessible than Styron’s.
Any additional comments?
Daniel Smith is sharp and insightful without being a bore. The book’s thoughtfulness, intelligence and self-deprecating tone proves irresistible. To quote the author: “If this all sounds melodramatic, well that isn't a bad metaphor for anxiety as a kind of drama queen of the mind.”
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