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Has a lot to recommend it. I don't care for some of the Hindu theology woven into his ideas about mastery. He could have skipped that and had a better book.

i want to BE the salvage sisters great inspirational/idea book about making trash beautiful - this is where i got the idea to raise my pathetic mattress up on pallets. i love it.

I can't imagine not adoring this book, but not everyone has the same sense of humor (reference: Something About Mary). Personally, I had a hard time not laughing out loud while reading this on a plane. I can't get enough David Sedaris. More, more, more!

Each word written by Calvino is strategic. The impressive part is that this important fact seems not to be lost in translation. The real appeal of this book, for me, is that his characters are almost achingly real and non-glamorous, but the fact that these stories are set in a time and places so different from my own experience, they almost seem fantastic. Time and again, Calvino impresses with his ability to make the most simple circumstances come alive.