Stuck, Anneli Rufus
Stuck, Anneli Rufus
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Stuck

Author: Anneli Rufus

Narrator: Susanna Burney

Abridged: 5 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/26/2025


Synopsis

In Stuck, the author of the highly praised Party of One: The Loners’ Manifesto identifies a rather striking social trend: many people are stuck. Be it in the wrong relationship, the wrong career, the wrong town, or with the wrong friends, some of them even say they want to make a change but... somehow... never get the job done. A self-described “adolescent in size-ten shoes who is also a happily married homeowner with a master’s degree,” Anneli Rufus knows whereof she speaks. In this book, she draws on her own life experience as well as interviews with others who are also—in some way or another, and to differing degrees—immobilized. Tracing the many subtle ways in which American culture often conspires to keep us stalled, Rufus delivers a long-awaited diagnosis for our day and age: stuck. But there can be a light at the end of the tunnel; Rufus also tells the stories of people who managed to become unstuck and of others who, after much reflection, decided that where they are is best. After all, she says: “What looks to you like paralysis looks to others like passion. What looks to you like a rut, others would call commitment, true absorption in a topic, a relationship, a career, a pursuit, a place. What looks to you like boredom, others call commitment. And even contentment.” Stuck is a wise and passionate exploration of the dreams we hold dearest for ourselves—and the road to actually achieving them.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rebecca on April 15, 2010

while this looks like a self help book, and that is where it is shelved at my barnes and noble, i'd say this is more than just a simple self help book. First off, it's not simple. this looks, very carefully and with a critical eye, to the different ways a person may be stuck, what can make them stu......more

Goodreads review by Wellington on September 08, 2009

OK, I must admit that it took me a while to get into this book. I thought of returning it many times to the library but just never did mainly because I just didn't have any errands to do near the library. As the title suggests, it's a book about being stuck. The authors pulls stories from all over th......more

Goodreads review by Therese on August 04, 2016

The author ponders different forms of "stuckness" - habits, addictions, traumatic memories, relationships, jobs. Her writing style was interesting and often engaging, but sometimes she came across as just a little bit "judgey," though it also seemed she was trying very hard to give balanced discussi......more

Goodreads review by L.A. on April 16, 2012

This book just rambles and rambles and goes on and on about nothing. The book itself is stuck. Maybe that's the point the author was trying to make? Regardless, it's not funny, and I don't want to be stuck in her rut. I'm stuck enough in my own.......more

Goodreads review by April on February 24, 2021

Awesome book on the ways people cling to things, the ways we distort time and meaning, and how we pick and choose our freedoms to suit our neuroses.......more