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If you’re on the introverted side - if, like me, you enjoy quiet libraries better than crowded parties - it must have happened to you that others have not really understood why. If you’ve turned down a dinner invitation because you preferred an evening at home, you must have been criticized as antisocial. I’m probably not an extreme loner, but my inborn temperament is way out there; it is only thanks to a good degree of conditioning and practice that my behavior - I’ve been told - might even, on occasion, seem that of an extrovert. That’s why I have immensely enjoyed reading Anneli Rufus’s Party of One, a book that (1) confirms that there are others like us out there, (2) makes it clear that such preferences are largely imprinted in our genes, and (3) argues passionately that a loner is just a loner - not necessarily a sociopath, a pervert, or a serial killer, as lazy media and inaccurate police profiling would have us believe. If you have someone who loves you but doesn’t understand you, give them this book. Author Anneli Rufus, a loner herself, will take them on a rather exhilarating ride through popular culture, movies, advertising, friendship, love and sex, art, literature, religion, sanity, crime, fashion, travel, childhood and more. The lightest chapter is the one on technology, which does not probe all that deeply in the impact that the Web has had in opening up lifestyle choices for loners, but gets one thing absolutely right: “The Internet is, for loners, an absolute and total miracle”. "[...] The keyboard is a forest, is a meadow, is the open sea, a habitable planet, a pot of gold, an island, the palace where the prince is looking for a princess, Shangri-la, the Serengeti, Swedish lessons twenty-four hours a day."Read full review
Not only for loners but for people who loves a loner. It really helped me understand myself. Wonder author who opens up her life to help others. And it has. My hats off to her
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If your the type of person that is a little different and don't fit into a preconceived mold. If you find that your like a square peg in a round hole. Than this book is for you. I absolutely loved this book with all my heart. This is one of the few books I've read cover to cover. If you have ever had loner tendencies this book is for you. If you know a loaner and want to understand them this book is for you. I hope that more people read this so that those of us who are a little different will be understood. I felt many times while reading this that Anneli was talking about my experiences on these pages, and that she is one of the few people that really understand the way I think and act.
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If you're an introvert, you're going to feel such an upsurge of support from even the first few pages of this book, you'll be recommending it just as I do. Extroverts in power love to define introverts as "abnormal" or "damaged" because they imagine themselves the template of what a human should be. Hence the personality test section of your job interview. Are you a thinker? We don't any cogs that can think! Enjoy this conversationally toned morsel of truth and value it for the rarity that it is.
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