Understanding Me: Lectures and Interviews [Import] [Hardcover]

Marshall; Staines, David; McLuhan, Stephanie McLuhan (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 344 pages
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Ltd (2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0771055455
• ISBN-13: 978-0771055454
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,040,496 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Spoken words to help the written, June 20, 2005

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Gordon Cieplak (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Understanding Me: Lectures and Interviews (Paperback)

For anyone remotely interested in McLuhan, I recommend this book for the following reasons.
It is a much easier read than most of McLuhan's work, as it is a collection of interviews and speeches which are necessarily more concise, and were for me much more involving.
It gives an insight into McLuhan's theories which can be quite puzzling and abstruse at first. In his speeches and essays, he repeats his same themes in a variety of manners, which help to give the reader a better understanding of the theories.
It's no McLuhan for Idiots (I'm not sure if there is such a thing, based on the nature of his works), but it is definitely a very useful and enjoyable companion book.