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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Take a deep look at friendship
The author did a great job examining all aspects of friendship, using personal examples of his own experiences and using examples from literature. It is a delightful read, it was entertaining and I looked forward to relaxing and reading more of it each day. All areas of friendship are examined with the eye of a professor, friendships between wife and husband, long...
Published on October 24, 2007 by Steve Burns
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2 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
great idea but should be a magazine article not a book
95% of this book is statements of the obvious with no really insights or fresh perspective. I was dissappointed and you will be too.
Published on July 4, 2008 by john smith
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Take a deep look at friendship,
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This review is from: Friendship: An Expose (Paperback)
The author did a great job examining all aspects of friendship, using personal examples of his own experiences and using examples from literature. It is a delightful read, it was entertaining and I looked forward to relaxing and reading more of it each day. All areas of friendship are examined with the eye of a professor, friendships between wife and husband, long distance friendships, friendships between the opposite sex, inter racial friendships, etc. The author examines what history and literature has to tell us from Plato, aristotle, Montaigne, Mark Twain, Nietzche, etc. You will leave this book understanding that friendship, while at times is demanding, it is one of life's greatest pleasures and well worth any inconvience and effort.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Listening may be the crux of friendship,
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This review is from: Friendship: An Expose (Paperback)
Michel de Montaigne wrote about his friendship friend's death, first-person singular to take the place of his friend's listening ear. Here the reader is struck by the similarity of Montaigne's story and that of both St. Augustine and Tennyson.
Amusingly, the author describes his boyhood habit of having serial best friends. He notes that in adulthood, while married, male companionship was less important. Epstein's most important adult friend was Edward Shils, older and more cosmopolitan than he, a friendship of unequals. The author believes, and gives evidence in support of this, that in modern society friendship is diminishing. Therapeutic concerns and mobility play a part. The author considers the obligations of friendship. It is a matter of reciprocity and it is inexact. One chapter is devoted to a week-long friendship diary, lots of e-mails described, and another chapter discusses differences between men and women and their friendships. A number of anecdotes and discussions of issues round out this fulsome and excellent treatment of the subject. A note on books consulted and an index appear at the end.
2 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
great idea but should be a magazine article not a book,
This review is from: Friendship: An Expose (Paperback)
95% of this book is statements of the obvious with no really insights or fresh perspective. I was dissappointed and you will be too.
1 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not good advice on friendship...,
By Christine (Minneapolis, Minnesota) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Friendship: An Expose (Paperback)
This writer seems to be a clever guy with a low social IQ. Don't look to this book as a place to get good ideas on how to be a friend. Disappointing.
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Friendship: An Expose by Joseph Epstein (Paperback - July 3, 2007)
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