My name is Zac and I love to read. I want to read more but I get distracted rather easily. So I gave myself a goal to read a thousand books. A pretty hefty goal but I have a life time to complete it. I created A newsletter to recommend books and a website to keep track of my progress. I realized that I probably wouldn’t recommend every book I read on my journey to 1,000. I still wanted to keep track of all the books I was going to read so I decided to also review books I had read but not recommended. So enjoy the books that didn’t make the recommend list

The Global fool is an overview of clowns through out history. From ancient Greece to modern day clowns have been apart of our societies since well probably since the first joke was said. This book isn’t for every one unless every one is interested in where the man in the red nose and big shoes came from. If your only a little curious this should do just fine for you, you’ll probably learn there’s a lot more clowning around going on then you’d expect.

I have a great love of humor in general. I don’t love clown’s except for the fact my mothers afraid of them. This book broadened my eyes to the extent of the clowns importance in our societies through out history. The clown has been a tool of social normalcy. By acting a fool and speaking the unspeakable absurdity of every day life people can relax. We can laugh at the clown for being so abnormal we question our own sense of normal, and when we question the normal against the abnormal we get to see if they are truly different or alarmingly similar.

“ By acting in opposition to all accepted norms, they forced their community to question the nature of those norms.”