Full of nouns and verbs, with some other words.

Since I first bought this book and read it from cover to cover, I've never really stopped reading. It's kept a spot on my headboard and I regularly pick it up to skim a few pages or admire the photos. I can't think of a better college graduation or retirement gift. Well done, Mr. deBotton, very well done. 

Review: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

"The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work" is a pleasure-filled work. Nowhere else is the nobility of the audit clerk or the pathos of the electric-tower-watching-society president so painstakingly realized ... Read full review

Review: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work. Alain de Botton

Remarkable, insightful, touching, funny and incredible prose. Thoroughly recommended. Read full review

Review: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

Alain de Botton writes about the working world with the attitude of an anthropologist describing exotic culture, only possible for someone who has never actually had any financial need to work. His ... Read full review

Review: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

In this series of interrelated essays, Alain de Botton focuses on a handful of specific professions — supply chain managers, rocket scientists, painters, accountants, amateur inventors, minor players ... Read full review

Review: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

A desultory meditation, by turns erudite and sardonic. De Botton uses the examples of ten occupations as entry points into associative digressions, but he never gives the workers themselves any voice ... Read full review

Review: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

One of the best-written books I've ever read. Alain approaches ordinary professions--accounting, engineering, fishing--including the most menial work possible (factory work), with a child's curiosity ... Read full review

Review: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work. Alain de Botton

This is not really about work at all - it would be more accurate to call it something like poetry of the commonplace. Work is tangential at best to most of the episodes in this series of essays, but ... Read full review

Review: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work. Alain de Botton

Although I do enjoy de Botton's writing and thoughts on work, I was slightly disappointed by this offering in not really delving deeper into pleasures and sorrows I could identify with. For example, I ... Read full review