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    GoatMan: How I Took a Holiday from Being Human

    By Thomas Thwaites

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    The dazzling success of The Toaster Project, including TV appearances and an international book tour, leaves Thomas Thwaites in a slump. His friends increasingly behave like adults, while Thwaites still lives at home, "stuck in a big, dark hole." Luckily, a research grant offers the perfect out: a chance to take a holiday from the complications of being human—by transforming himself into a goat. What ensues is a hilarious and surreal journey through engineering, design, and psychology, as Thwaites interviews neuroscientists, animal behaviorists, prosthetists, goat sanctuary workers, and goatherds.

    From this, he builds a goat exoskeleton—artificial legs, helmet, chest protector, raincoat from his mum, and a prosthetic goat stomach to digest grass (with help from a pressure cooker and campfire)—before setting off across the Alps on four legs with a herd of his fellow creatures. Will he make it? Do Thwaites and his readers discover what it truly means to be human?

    GoatMan tells all in Thwaites's inimitable style, which NPR extols as "a laugh-out- loud-funny but thoughtful guide through his own adventures."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPrinceton Architectural Press
    Release dateMay 17, 2016
    ISBN9781616894931
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    GoatMan: How I Took a Holiday from Being Human
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    Thomas Thwaites

    Thomas Thwaites develops far reaching design projects, undertakes commissions for private companies, as well as making work for public organisations including London's Design Museum, the Wellcome Trust and the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. His work has been exhibited at major galleries worldwide, including at the National Museum of China, Ars Electronica in Austria, the Zero1 Biennial in California and The Science Museum in London. The Victoria & Albert Museum recently acquired his work, The Toaster Project, for their permanent collection. He has presented a four part television series, aired on Discovery Channel Asia Pacific in 2013. His first book, The Toaster Project, is published by Princeton Architectural Press, and has now been translated in to Japanese and Korean editions.

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    • 4/5
      Very funny for about 2/3rds of the book which is during the build up of the book. There is really no payoff. Still highly recommend it because it is so humorous.
    • 4/5
      Made me laugh out loud, and think as well! Touches on the differences between humans and animals, and the similarities. Written by a man who decided to try to experience being a goat and trot across the Swiss alps- an extemely unconvential (a.k.a.crazy) idea from an otherwise intelligent man.