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Summary: I loved this book.......
Review: Diane Ackerman writes with such beauty and her examples are so rich and invigorating. I refer people to her books all the time to experience word artistry in non fiction writers.In fact, the word "Play" was getting on my nerves with regularity until I read this book which really outlines the Sacred aspect of play. After reading, I look at everything involving Play from a different plane. My two year old delights in Mommy's delight! How is THAT for trading spaces! I can't understand the low rating this book has had so far. Some people who reviewed it must be cranky. Buy it, revel in it, play with the content.
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Summary: I loved this book.......
Review: Diane Ackerman writes with such beauty and her examples are so rich and invigorating. I refer people to her books all the time to experience word artistry in non fiction writers. In fact, the word "Play" was getting on my nerves with regularity until I read this book which really outlines the Sacred aspect of play. After reading, I look at everything involving Play from a different plane. My two year old delights in Mommy's delight! How is THAT for trading spaces! I can't understand the low rating this book has had so far. Some people who reviewed it must be cranky. Buy it, revel in it, play with the content.
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Summary: I loved this book.......
Review: Diane Ackerman writes with such beauty and her examples are so rich and invigorating. I refer people to her books all the time to experience word artistry in non fiction writers. In fact, the word "Play" was getting on my nerves with regularity until I read this book which really outlines the Sacred aspect of play. After reading, I look at everything involving Play from a different plane. My two year old delights in Mommy's delight! How is THAT for trading spaces! I can't understand the low rating this book has had so far. Some people who reviewed it must be cranky. Buy it, revel in it, play with the content.
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Summary: Captivating. It lacked the power to realy "MOVE" me though.
Review: Drawn out and excessively wordy. I loved it, but it was reminicent of a briefly popular Pepsi-Cola product. It was called Clear-Pepsi. My children thourghly enjoyed it. They could have thier cola and not be badgered about it. But let's face it, even though it looked like seltzer and smelled like iron heavy water, it left you with this strange unpleasent aftertaste. Like you know there should be more...
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Summary: Meeting someone who is having a lifelong romance w/life
Review: Enjoyed it immensely. I admire DA's ability to have this life-long romance with life . Every day. Every minute .
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Summary: Love Diane Ackerman!
Review: I always eagerly await the next Diane Ackerman book. This one doesn't disappoint. I will use it in my classes--it's a wonderful look at the way creativity works (or, rather: plays!) Fascinating details, stories layered in stories. Highly recommend.
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Summary: not very deep
Review: I don't want to sound like a curmedgeon, but this book is, to put it mildly, way too self-indulgent. I too like to bike and think, "Wow, the world is a great place," but I truly didn't think anyone else would care. This is a self-indulgent recap of "neat things Diane Ackerman has done in her life" loosely tied together by this deep play idea she gets from Huizinga without ever citing the original source material. It's not that I didn't enjoy reading it -- I did. It reminds me of reading a diary or a travel-log of a friend's adventures. But, compared to her other works, this is fluff with too much of a focus on the author. If the author hadn't been well-known, this never would have been published.
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Summary: not very deep
Review: I don't want to sound like a curmedgeon, but this book is, to put it mildly, way too self-indulgent. I too like to bike and think, "Wow, the world is a great place," but I truly didn't think anyone else would care. This is a self-indulgent recap of "neat things Diane Ackerman has done in her life" loosely tied together by this deep play idea she gets from Huizinga without ever citing the original source material. It's not that I didn't enjoy reading it -- I did. It reminds me of reading a diary or a travel-log of a friend's adventures. But, compared to her other works, this is fluff with too much of a focus on the author. If the author hadn't been well-known, this never would have been published.
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Summary: As always, a pleasure
Review: I found Deep Play to be a fairly quick read, and enjoyed it immensely. This was not a terribly esoteric read-I actually expected more "science" behind the human need for deep play. However, Ackerman's skill with the written word carries her through here, and the book was a delight regardless.
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Summary: Beautiful book!
Review: I'm discovering that it really doesn't matter what Ackerman writes about, her ideas and writing style both are so rich. This one, about transcendance, religion, creativity, and other related topics, really spoke to me. I've already reread this book and passed it along to a friend. Beautiful book!
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