tipik beyaz dertleri özel spor hocaları, beslenme uzmanları, koşu bantlarıyla geçen misler gibi bir hayat, evinin önünde bir yarık (metafora tikel) açılmasıyla sekteye uğruyor.

This is the start of a sequence of events that make Raiders of the Lost Ark look like a walk through your local library.He gives away new cars, pays for his maid's hip replacement, sends the weary housewife to a spa. "This is the person he wants to be," Homes writes. "He wants to be able to do this for others, strangers, it doesn't matter who, and he wants to be able to do it for himself." His Good Samaritan impulse also inspires a series of impromptu rescue operations: A horse is trapped in a sinkhole, a hostage is trapped in a trunk, a woman is trapped in a bad marriage. These episodes are mildly amusing (for 15 minutes, he's a national celebrity, a punch line on Letterman), but because Richard is so imperturbable and his success so firmly guaranteed, the scenes never develop any real suspense. This book is a disappointing follow-up to the New Scientist's This Book Could Save Your Life: The Science of Living Longer Better, which is by a different author. Where the first book carefully balanced up the evidence between often-conflicting trials, this book over-simplifies the science.

I loved this book. I loved every single character in this book. From Anhil, the existentialist donut man, to the overworked ex-wife (she who shall not be named, I guess), to misguided, sweet Ben, to the misunderstood, sweet Nic, to Cynthia---who I can so relate to---but most of all, I love Richard. places matter and talking about them is the only way of ensuring meaningful change. I hope you found some laughter among the sadness though - I always try to and, most of the time, it really helps.’ This was all so true and I truly believe Ben is an exceptional writer. Read this quote for example ‘We find solutions to the mental health crisis not by focusing on what we already do, but by constantly looking for where we can do more.’ And the fact he thought it would be surprising to write a book!? I am truly dumbfounded because this was so exceptionally well written and flowed amazingly. Okay, do you ever get that feeling? That sense of… oh, I can’t find the right words, I can only describe it as a warm fuzzy. It’s this sense of childish hope, that people ARE good---and not good like someone letting you cut in line at the grocery store because you have 2 items to their 20 or someone following the correct etiquette of ‘merging into traffic’, but have you experienced true goodness? I have. I know I have. I’ve remembered coming home and being so excited to retell the story of something that renewed my faith in mankind. I remember grinning, not just smiling or smirking but full on ear-to-ear, pearly whites, make your face hurt, grinning. Nemôžem nič len odporúčať. Prosím prečítajte si ju. Všetci. Povinne. Sľubujem, že vám dá omnoho viac ako vám vezme :)onun dışından panik atak sonrası yüzleşmesi gereken şeyler olduğunu fark ediyor ve kardeşine gidiyor, oğlunu evine davet ediyor, sessizlik yemini edilen bir kampa gidiyor filan. In addition she has been active on the Boards of Directors of Yaddo, The Fine Arts Work Center In Provincetown, The Writers Room, and PEN-where she chairs both the membership committee and the Writers Fund. Additionally she serves on the Presidents Council for Poets and Writers. Despite the intense publicity that usually surrounds such cases of medical negligence, these account for a relatively small proportion of the problems with people’s health care. A much broader problem arises from the care provided by well-meaning professionals in a system that is so fragmented and complicated that it is all too easy for things to go wrong. It is estimated that as many as 30,000 people die in the UK each year as a result of medical errors 3 and that tens of thousands of Australians die or are seriously injured as a result of their healthcare. Seventeen per cent of hospital admissions are associated with an adverse event caused by healthcare management. 4 In the USA, it has been estimated that about 180,000 people die each year partly as a result of their healthcare – the equivalent of three jumbo jet crashes every 2 days. These figures suggest that there is a great deal of room to improve the healthcare that many people receive. There’s this great scene towards the end. Richard takes his 17 yr. old estranged son to DisneyLand. You can see that Ben is fighting something, trying to recapture some sense of his lost childhood. He’s fighting with his father, yelling at him while riding the teacups or waiting for Space Mountain and Richard is taking it, feeling like he deserves it. Ben’s trying to work out all these emotions, worried about an expiration date or something---afraid to see this day end. And there’s this scene:

Hoci väčšinu zásad, o ktorých bolo písané už poznám (napríklad, že treba jesť veľa ovocia a pravidelne sa hýbať), mnohé ma prekvapili a moja čítačka, v ktorej knihu mám, je plná zvýraznených pasáži, ku ktorým sa ešte určite vrátim. Táto kniha bola pre mňa obohatením a skutočným vstúpením si do svedomia. Keď už nič aspoň som sa začala štverať do práce po schodoch a jesť oooveľa viac ovocia a zeleniny. For every time I started to think this book was just lightly entertaining there would come a scene so real and brutal it would hurt a bit. Broken child-parent relationships. Exes whose scent still lingers. Women sobbing in the produce section of a supermarket. For what seemed like a light-hearted romp, turned out to be a forensic examination and rumination of this reader’s own life. You know, Richard’s experiences in this story, would touch on so many people. I would be surprised if any one reader couldn’t find something to draw on here.ben’in babasız çektiği acılar çok dokunaklı açıkçası ama ben artık bu romanları ohoo bizde neler var duygusuyla okuyorum. maalesef 3. dünya gerçekliği :( This book is in no way intended as a do-it-yourself guide to becoming your own doctor. It is hoped, however, that it will help you to assess health advice better by showing you how to recognise useful evidence and reject that which is likely to be harmful. Its underlying argument – that we should remain cautious about any intervention that has not been thoroughly investigated and proved to do more good than harm – applies to all health advice, whether it comes from mainstream medicine or complementary/alternative practitioners.

If you have any ideas about the ending and what was going on there, I'd love to hear from you. I am so over the ambiguous ending, especially in a book that's not really good enough on its own for me to care. But I do want to know what happened to the dog. Nedá mi nepochváliť aj autorov štýl písania. Bolo to pútavé a zrozumiteľné. Uznávam, že veľakrát nešiel úplne do hĺbky, ale vždy sa čo najlepšie snažil opísať všetky procesy, ktoré s danou problematikou súviseli tak, aby to čitateľa neunudilo a zároveň tomu pochopil. A pre hotentotov (ako som napríklad aj ja) nechýbalo na konci kapitoly vždy jedno-dvojvetové zhrnutie. How can you minimise the risks of getting diabetes, cancer or Alzheimer's? And how can you slow the ageing process?

Richard ends up making friends with a donut maker, a supposedly ‘homeless’ man who lives next door, a mother of a handful of kids to a drongo of a father who decides to leave him, a talking car, Bob Dylan, a dog called Malibu and so, so, so much more. Jest napisana konkretnie, rzeczowo bez wydumanych porad, które nijak mają odzwierciedlenie w naszej rzeczywistości. burada yazarın dalga geçtiği şey amerikalıların kendileri dışında her şeyde çözüm aramaları. beslenme takıklıkları bizde yeni moda olanlara çok benziyor. sözde sessizlik kampına egolardan arınmaya gidiyorlar minder yerlerini bile paylaşamıyorlar, öteki olmak hakkında hiçbir fikirleri yok, yoksulları anlamıyorlar. I liked it and it kept my interest for a good while, but only because I could almost never imagine what was coming next, certainly not because what came next was in any way organic or a necessary outcome of anything previous. The book seemed to become more frenetic and random as it neared the end, and I got a little impatient with it--I had realized by then that nothing was going to be wrapped up, we'd just keep lurching from event to event--by the time we came to the SOS from the car trunk, I was pretty much done.