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Title: Entertaining but not overpowering
Review: This work is not as original or as interesting as his first. But it does contain the combination of entertaining and insightful personal anecdote with philosophical reflection. DeBotton manages to provide a certain depth and simplicity combined. It is not clear to me that the kind of ' consolations' he gives in this work will have great and lasting effect, but it seems to me momentary relief may be provided . It is after all at times consoling to know that those greater and more important and more profound than us have suffered in much the same ways that we do.
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