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Party Of One: The Loners' Manifesto (Paperback)

by Anneli Rufus (Author)
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In this compendium of everyone who was anyone who ever spent a moment alone, readers bump fleetingly into Kurt Cobain, French Resistance fighters, the Lone Ranger ("Tonto notwithstanding"), Michelangelo, Alexander Pope, John Lennon, cowboys, Saint Anthony and other solo acts. Rufus, the books editor of East Bay Express, views Degas's plain-faced dancers as "pretty ballerinas" whom the artist leaves every time he exits his studio, and Warhol's biography as "tellingly titled Loner at the Ball." She chases her motif, not so much a manifesto as a cri de coeur, through an assortment of perspectives: religion, advertising, clothes, crime, art, eccentricity, environment, literature, religion and popular culture. She also identifies "pseudoloners" like Theodore Kaczynski and Jesus Christ (who "was too good at guiding crowds to have been one of us"). There's an us/them tone to this book that makes one wonder who the audience might be. The "us" people "do not need writers to tell us how lovely apartness is"; the "them" people will surely weary of being identified as "Nonloners. The world at large. The mob." Taken in column-sized doses, Rufus may be entertaining and informative, but her book feels as if too much random information has been cut-and-pasted together.
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The Buddha. Rene Descartes. Emily Dickinson. Greta Garbo. Bobby Fischer. J. D. Salinger: Loners, allalong with as many as 25 percent of the world's population. Loners keep to themselves, and like it that way. Yet in the press, in films, in folklore, and nearly everywhere one looks, loners are tagged as losers and psychopaths, perverts and pity cases, ogres and mad bombers, elitists and wicked witches. Too often, loners buy into those messages and strive to change, making themselves miserable in the process by hiding their true natureand hiding from it. Loners as a group deserve to be reassessedto claim their rightful place, rather than be perceived as damaged goods that need to be "fixed. " In Party of One Anneli Rufus -- a prize-winning, critically acclaimed writer with talent to burn -- has crafted a morally urgent, historically compelling tour de forcea long-overdue argument in defense of the loner, then and now. Marshalling a polymath's easy erudition to make her case, assembling evidence from every conceivable arena of culture as well as interviews with experts and loners worldwide and her own acutely calibrated analysis, Rufus rebuts the prevailing notion that aloneness is indistinguishable from loneliness, the fallacy that all of those who are alone don't want to be, and wouldn't be, if only they knew how.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Take a peak into the life of that person in the corner ...., July 16 2004
By C. P. (Fair Haven, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
Growing up, Barbra Streisand sang that "people who need people are the luckiest people in the world." I didn't get it. It wasn't until a few years ago, after accidentally overhearing someone refer to me as a loner that I ever considered that I might be one.

Whereas I looked at other people, those of whom were needy and dependant, as strange and somewhat pitiful, it wasn't until I read this book that I realized that they felt that way about me! All along I considered myself perfectly normal while now I see that the "other side" -- the nonloners -- saw me as the unusual one.

This book doesn't so much try to explain why loners and nonloners act the way they do than to expose and explore the two disparate types of thinking and behaviors. It's a great source for either entity to enter the inside of the other side.

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2.0 out of 5 stars A disappointment., July 12 2004
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This book would have been more helpful and credible had it been written by an objective person. Instead, it is written by someone who calls herself a "loner" (without ever defining what that is) and it reads like self-justification. There are no gradations in Ms. Rufus' book. You're either a "loner" or you're part of "the mob." There is a bitter tone in much of what she writes about nonloners. It's also filled with cliches (the Marlboro Man, Travis from Taxi Driver) that any of us who might think of ourselves as "loners," or those more in need of solitude than the average Joe, would already be well aware of. A good idea for a book, but I was disappointed by the execution.
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1.0 out of 5 stars trite, July 4 2004
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This book is more a platform for Ms. Rufus's political views than a manifesto on solitude. She resorts to tired cliches rather than doing any useful research. As she sneers at popular culture, she illustrates how much she is popular culture. Perhaps the title should read "one particular loner's manifesto". I did not relate.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Insightful and resourceful
I stumbled upon this book during a jaunt through my favorite local book store, and decided to give it a try. Read more
Published on Jun 28 2004 by Skip

1.0 out of 5 stars Still an outcast...
The book made me feel like the Delta loner, a weak, pessimistic person who needs attention yet won't admit it around the Alpha loners.
Published on Jun 21 2004 by Raquel

5.0 out of 5 stars Be a loner and rejoice!
After picking up this tome, I was pleased to read a humorous but serious take on the loner persona. Being a loner, i truly understand the incidents and feelings described in this... Read more
Published on Jun 15 2004 by S. Brainard

5.0 out of 5 stars Read it Alone and Rejoice!
Finally an answer to a loner's prayers! We are not as strange as the world wants to make us out to be afterall. Read more
Published on Jun 1 2004 by V. Marshall

5.0 out of 5 stars the best read a loner could ever take on
instead of addressing how much i liked the book lets go over what the none likers of this book said. for the guy that thinks this was a poor definition of loner. Read more
Published on May 3 2004 by sevendlysins

5.0 out of 5 stars BEWARE: Incorrect description of *Loner* in this book!
First, a few major flaws in this work that i'd now like to bring to light:
The author's definition of a loner excludes people who are alone but who desperately want to be... Read more
Published on April 26 2004

5.0 out of 5 stars In Praise of Loners
I can't imagine being a loner and not being thrilled with this book. What a breath of fresh air to read the positives of lonerdom instead of a "how to be an introvert in an... Read more
Published on April 9 2004 by SeaSoul

1.0 out of 5 stars Heavy-handed and self-righteous
I agree with the few other reviewers that didn't like this book. Like everyone else, I was attracted to the book because it sounded like an interesting treatment of my dominant... Read more
Published on Mar 28 2004 by stackenblochen

4.0 out of 5 stars witty read
I am an introvert and a loner (the two are not always interchangeable). As loners do not often open up to many around them, I appreciated meeting another loner who thought and... Read more
Published on Mar 15 2004

5.0 out of 5 stars "I know what it means to be alone" Good times, bad times
Loners are much maligned, misunderstood and, at the extremes, mistreated. Anneli Rufus wants to clear the air about them. Read more
Published on Mar 7 2004 by Gary C. Marfin

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