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Title	:	How I Became Stupid
Author	:	Martin Page
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 160 pages
Published	:	November 30th 2004 by Penguin Books (first published 2000)
Categories	:	Fiction. Humor. Cultural. France. Novels. Contemporary. European Literature. French Literature. Literature

How I Became Stupid Paperback | Pages: 160 pages

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Ignorance is bliss, or so hopes Antoine, the lead character in Martin Page's stinging satire, "How I Became Stupid" a modern day "Candide" with a Darwin Award-like sensibility. A twenty-five-year-old Aramaic scholar, Antoine has had it with being brilliant and deeply self-aware in today's culture. So tortured is he by the depth of his perception and understanding of himself and the world around him that he vows to denounce his intelligence by any means necessary in order to become stupid enough to be a happy, functioning member of society. What follows is a dark and hilarious odyssey as Antoine tries everything from alcoholism to stock-trading in order to lighten the burden of his brain on his soul.

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Original Title:	Comment je suis devenu stupide
ISBN:	0142004952 (ISBN13: 9780142004951)
Edition Language:	English

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This book made me dislike the French. It was just terrible. And unpleasant to read. Though, the character Aas was so cool, he should have his book with actual dialogue from him instead of saying something like, "Aas told me I was a jerk in a haiku." I want the haiku instead.

More like a 2.9While I read the book, my feelings for it were up and down. I read a passage that made we want to give the book rating of 5. Then something else made me want to give the book a 2. later I would read something else that made we want to rate the book a 4. It went on like this until the last word of the book. I wonder how much of the the meaning of the book was lost in translation. Although it should not be much since French is a Romantic language and English is built off the back of

With a title like this gracing the front cover, you might get the impression that this is a tale of wrong choices, longing for the good ole days and trying to figure out how it all got away.Youd be mostly wrongmostly.How I Became Stupid is a tale about Antoine, who feels forever burdened by his astounding intelligence and natural curiosity about the world he inhabits. The weight of his knowledge is stifling and he longs to become one of the drooling, ignorant masses he sees around him every day.

With a title like this gracing the front cover, you might get the impression that this is a tale of wrong choices, longing for the good ole days and trying to figure out how it all got away.Youd be mostly wrongmostly.How I Became Stupid is a tale about Antoine, who feels forever burdened by his astounding intelligence and natural curiosity about the world he inhabits. The weight of his knowledge is stifling and he longs to become one of the drooling, ignorant masses he sees around him every day.

A brief, pithy novel about a young French intellectual with a dead-end degree and a dead-end job who decides he'd be happier if he was less intelligent, and sets about trying to make it happen. Eventually it descends into broad antimaterialist satire, and I think it could have benefited from a savvy editor, but nonetheless, I recommend it unreservedly to anyone reading this.Money quote: "Alcoholics are pitied, they are cared for, they are thought of in medical terms, humanely. But no one thinks

A thoughtful, sarcastic, sad, hilarious, disturbing, lovely little book.Antoine decides to stop thinking and heed Flaubert's injunction: To be stupid, selfish and healthy are the three requirements to be happy, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.To be happy, he will strip himself of his social conscience, his thoughtful sensitivity, his few friends, even "his precious and individual limited editions", books painfully reconstituted, page by page.Further to buck his crippling awareness

"Modern Day Candide" my butt. Keep dreaming Martin Page.