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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. BEST. BOOK. EVER. Made me smile...then laugh. Definitely a positive book. ( ) "he is so happy" I first read this, borrowed from my sister, at a time when I had been struggling with depression for over a decade. It made me happy and it made me smile - a fairly major occurrence then! Not exactly an instant cure, but in its own little way it helped. It's short, it's sweet and it might make you smile. What more of a recommendation do you need? Until just now, when I was researching Edward Monkton to write this review, I didn't know anything about the author or the books. I'd previously read one of his books, the one entitled Love and I didn't quite get it because there seemed to be some joke behind it that I was missing. Now that I know the author is actually Giles Andreae, the man behind Purple Ronnie; I can now see the similarity in the drawing style of the two creations, but I think that the ideas behind the two entities are quite different. The only reason I happened to pick up this book because it was a present that my sister had received and I was curious about the contents of a book with such a title. I flipped through the pages and within the space of about five minutes, I had read the entire thing. The book itself is very short. It consists of 32 pages (according to Amazon) but I think that total probably includes the title page and the other pages that don't actually have any of the story on them. The story itself takes up very few pages at all. It has a crudely drawn cartoon style picture on one side and accompanying text on the other. Think of something like a slightly larger version of a Mr Man book, and you'll be on the right track. It's hard to really comment on the plot of the story because to summarise the plot would be to tell the entire story - it's just that short! There's probably more words in this review than there is in the entire book! It's pretty much a simple philosophical tale, a modern-day parable if you will. At least that's the description from Amazon. It is a nice little story, with a nice inspirational moral at the end and the kind of thing that you could read whenever you need a lift or a bit of a kick in the arse to get motivated. Personally, that sort of book is not really to my taste, but it was a nice little story all the same. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
I knew Edward Monkton was going to be a success when people started e-mailing me daily saying that it touched their hearts, it made them think, and most important, it made them laugh out loud-again and again." --Giles Andreae * In the tradition of Jonathan Livingston Seagull comes The Pig of Happiness-a philosophizing porcine fellow with a penchant for spreading good cheer. Edward Monkton's philosophical piglet aspires to elevate the spirit and become the Pig of Happiness. His happiness is so big it seeps from inside him to all the other pigs and then to all the other animals in the barnyard. * Monkton, perhaps better known as the U.K.'s top-selling living poet Giles Andreae, pairs a fresh illustrative style with simple yet profound prose to create this modern-day parable. * Monkton's greeting cards and book titles have been a big hit in the U.K. His gift books are presented to the U.S. market by Andrews McMeel exclusively, while a complementary card line from Sunrise will be introduced in the summer of 2007. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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