A Week at the Airport

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		A Week at the Airport

From the bestselling author of The Art of Travel comes a wittily intriguing exploration of the strange "non-place" that he believes is the imaginative center of our civilization.

Given unprecedented access to one of the world’s busiest airports as a “writer-in-residence,” Alain de Botton found it to be a showcase for many of the major crosscurrents of the modern world—from our faith in technology to our destruction of nature, from our global interconnectedness to our romanticizing of the exotic. He met travelers from all over and spoke with everyone from baggage handlers to pilots to the airport chaplain. Weaving together these conversations and his own observations—of everything from the poetry of room service menus to the eerie silence in the middle of the runway at midnight—de Botton has produced an extraordinary meditation on a place that most of us never slow down enough to see clearly. Lavishly illustrated in color by renowned photographer Richard Baker, A Week at the Airport reveals the airport in all its turbulence and soullessness and—yes—even beauty.

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德波顿的书喜欢到爱不释手的地步。
这本机场的小旅行看过中文版的，翻译过来神韵有欠，所以还是看原文
书是彩页的，印刷质量很好，味道也不重
一下子就被封皮那一片蓝吸引住了。

内容保证不会让人失望
推荐～

虽然价格不低哦
连送货的师傅都嘟哝说：这么薄的书要67块。。。

阿兰德波顿善于在平常的事物和环境中探索和寻找到很高的意境和深刻的思想。一周的时间，实地观察一个典型的机场，接触普通的旅客和机场工作人员，能够波澜不惊完整烘托出人、社会和变革的深刻内涵。阿兰有优美的语言把控能力，有深厚的文学、哲学、历史、美学等的深厚积淀，可谓驾轻就熟，游刃有余。我喜欢阿兰德作品。

去英国旅游之前买的，内容很平实，犹如身临其境

是彩页的挺不错 有爱不释手的感觉

When I was a kid (in those simpler, less security conscious days), I used to pester any adult I could find to take me to visit the airport. I loved to hang out at the observation deck at O'Hare and watch the planes take off and land and also wander around and watch the people at the airport. I rarely fly now (more car and Amtrak trips) but I would have LOVED the chance to experience what the author of this book did: spend a week at the airport.

In this wonderful little book, the author spent a week wandering around the new terminal at London's Heathrow Airport, talking to passengers and employees alike and observing everything going on. He talks to everyone, from the head of British Airways to someone who cleans the restrooms.

This is a terrific behind-the-scenes look at the inner workings of an airport. You might think it sounds dull but it's not that at all.

I heard about this book on an NPR interview a long while back, and it sounded interesting. I only wish there was more here. It was much shorter than I expected, and didn't really go into the detail that I remember the interview seemed to promise. It only skimmed the surface of the interviewees' lives, careers, and tales of travel. I'm glad I got it used for $0.01, because I would not have paid full price.

The behavioral economist Dan Ariely posted a story on his blog about a locksmith whose tips dropped once he mastered his craft and could perform his tasks in less time than he could as a novice. His customers equated the speed with which he accomplished his work with a lack of effort or complexity. So it is with some readers who dismiss de Botton's brilliant and economical style with as lacking depth or substance.

With sly humor and a keen sense of observation, de Botton offers up well-written essays whose setting is Heathrow Airport but whose subjects range from classical literature to modern relationships to our quest to satisfy psychological needs through consumerism.

As he has done earlier de Botton pairs his work with well-chosen photographs to enhance the mood and setting. Although this book is short, it's evident that a great deal of effort went into writing it. A certain amount of effort or at least calm attention is required to appreciate its depth, and the reader who offers up the attention this book deserves will not be disappointed.

As someone who loves travel, and is endlessly intrigued by the happenings at international airports, Alain De Botton's A Week at the Airport is a delightful window into the culture apart that this feature of the modern world embodies.

For anyone who has not yet entered De Botton's philosophical world via his writings, A Week at the Airport is short enough, at a little over 100 pages, and put together so nicely (the author has a skilled and touching turn of phrase, deployed as needed), that it's the perfect gateway into his longer and deeper works.

Assembled as a series of observations by De Botton and anecdotes from the denizens of this odd other place, A Week at the Airport is a pleasant and well worth it short diversion that should be on your reading list. I finished wanting a longer, deeper tale.

I'm giving it 4/5.

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