Yoga For People Who Can’t be Bothered To Do It, Geoff Dyer, 2003

Dyer uses the travelogue as the framework for another exploration of existential angst.  Cambodia, Detroit, Indonesia, Rome, Libya, and New Orleans provide the settings from Dyer to experience adventure, boredom, discomfort, and danger while he “felt (I) could no longer take the roller-coaster emotions of travel, its surges of exaltation, its troughs of despondency, its huge stretches of boredom and inconvenience.”  “I was distracted constantly by one thing or another. Everything competed with and distracted from everything else.  Nothing was satisfying; nothing held its own.  If I was out, I wanted to be in; if I was in, I wanted to be out.” Funny, taut, and wonderfully expressive ruminations on life.