Every essay here is filled with the wisdom of one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century, distilled, concentrated and applied to stinging, yet salutary effect. The degree of condensation is impressive. Though written in the simplest language, each is so tightly packed with ideas it leaves you feeling as if you have just digested a book. The famous Russell wit is given free play; you read with a permanent (if somewhat lopsided) smile on your face, breaking out in audible laughter from time to time. Yet this is far from being a frivolous book. The reader is lavishly entertained, but comes away from the reading a wiser and quite possibly a better person that when he began.

Highly recommended. I don't believe in star systems, but when in Rome... I give it four.