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The Book of Idle Pleasures Orange Prize for Fiction (2011) "The lost art of verbalThe Art of Doing Nothing meets The Dangerous Book for Boys in this charming celebration of simple delights. In The Book of Idle Pleasures , the United Kingdom's expert Idlers Tom Hodgkinson and Dan Kieran stand up for the simple pleasures in life . . . by lying down for a nap. With its tongue firmly in its cheek, The Book of Idle Pleasures renounces our world of ever growing consumer overload in favor of the timelessly true adage that the best things