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This book is quite fun �� as long as you don’t take it too seriously, and, let’s face it, it is almost impossible to take seriously a book called ‘the meaning of life, a very short introduction��. There is something paradoxical about the meaning of life being an introduction �� surely we are after conclusions.

This has a nice pace and enough jokes to keep you smiling between ideas. My favourite joke in the whole thing (one I’d never heard before and feel very surprised that I never thought of it myself) was the reported t-shirt that reads, ‘What if the hokie-pokie really is what it is all about?��

He covers a lot of ground here �� none of it all that unfamiliar, although, I don’t really mean that as a criticism. Lots of stuff on Aristotle and Schopenhauer, Kant and Wittgenstein, Nietzsche and Jesus. So that a lot of this was also a nice and quite easy introduction to philosophy too and its relationship to theology and aesthetics and other things along the way �� post-modernism, mostly.

Like I said, this is a quick and amusing little book and such are both its failings and successes. He is always clear and that has to be a good thing.