Pleasure Of Thinking eBook

My Lifelong Addiction to Reading. 'The miseries of a vacant life were never known to a man whose hours were insufficient for the inexhaustible pleasures of study'. Edward Gibson. 'When we read, we thereby save ourselves the greater part of the trouble of thinking. This explains our obvious sense of relief when we turn from our own thoughts to reading'. Arthur Schopenhauer. Using these quotes as a starting point, journalist and prison psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple writes a light-hearted memoir of his lifelong addiction to thinking and how serendipity led him on a journey of discovery.