Maybe 90 seconds if you’re a slow reader

I was in the bookstore a while back looking through the Philosophy section because an old professor of mine, Andrew Pessin, wrote a book that he recommended to me (an author who thinks his book is worth reading… go figure…). It wasn’t on the shelf there, so I had them order it for me—in the meantime, there was another of his sitting there, begging for my attention (and if you’ve never seen a book beg before, you’ve been missing out).

The title? “The 60-Second Philosopher.” The release date? Apparently, a month after I bought it. I guess that book was begging really hard for my attention. Anyway, since AP wrote it, I wanted to take a look. He has a fun lecturing style (take a look at the AP quotes in this post to see what I’m talking about), so I wanted to know what his teachings were like on paper. I was not disappointed. Admittedly, I kept my expectations low to improve his odds, but I think he would have exceeded higher expectations as well. Continue reading “Maybe 90 seconds if you’re a slow reader”