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Alain de Botton, who teaches at London University, has produced a delightful follow-up to his How Proust Can Change Your Life. The new one is called The Consolations of Philosophy (Pantheon, $22.95).
Not quite so gentle on the weary brain of the average vacationer is The Monk and the Philosopher (Schocken, $14 paper). Authors are Jean-Francois Revel, a well-known French intellectual, and his son Matthieu Ricard, who abandoned a promising career as a scientist nearly three decades ago to immerse himself in the study of Buddhism. The book is arraigned as a set of letters exchanged between father and son, each presenting his beliefs about life, East versus West, along with science and the humanities. It makes for an interesting ride. Happy summer reading. Go To Page: 1 2
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