Review: Philosophy in the Park *Second Edition.*
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 9, 2012
Philosophy and humour go together very well, don't you think? The heavyweight thoughts that rumble around in our subconscious and question who we are, what we are doing and why, needs to be balanced with some off-the-wall story telling; just to render it palatable and help us digest what the author is trying to say.Brave, or plain daft, to give up a job and a home to go and live in the local park? To be free of the baggage society insists we carry.In this multi-coloured monologue, Craig Stone takes people watching (and the minutiae of life watching) to a whole new level.Times of fear, loneliness and desperation are to be expected, but to wrench so much humour out of the misery makes for some clever, lively narrative.I laughed, a lot.My other half wanted to know what on earth was I reading? So I told him that it was about a man trying to discover the The Meaning of Life in a London Park. A park where the trees had names like Enid Blyton and Jeffrey Archer, and he has all sorts of adventures and gets into a lot of sticky situations with dog mess and... other sticky situations, both real and imagined. It's kind of Alice in Wonderland meets Freud... or something like that?Original; at times thought provoking and at all other, the crazy workings of a deliciously over-active mind.