The perfect boredom-busting book for long winter evenings with the family, Richard Herring's Would You Rather? is packed with hundreds of the biggest questions to face us all, including: Would you rather have a conversation with a dolphin or an elephant? Would you rather fall in love or fall into a swimming pool full of your favourite biscuits? Would you rather live in a giant shoe or a giant peach? Would you rather own a car with Jimmy Carr, a lorry with Laurie Anderson or a van with Van Morrison? The questions will have the whole family, whether 6 or 106, debating on car journeys and train journeys, or stuck in on wet days during the school holidays, and will keep you entertained around the table at Christmas lunch (or when you're falling asleep after Christmas lunch...). Fun, family-friendly and often completely bonkers, this book is a perfect gift as well as a game.

リチャード・ヘリングの本作は、単なるクイズ集の枠を超え、極限の「二択」を通じて人間の深層心理を暴き出す、知的でエキセントリックな思索の書です。提示される荒唐無稽な選択肢は、読者の論理を鮮やかに裏切り、無意識下の価値観や倫理観を浮き彫りにさせます。ヘリングが仕掛ける言葉の罠は、退屈な日常をシュルレアリスム的な驚きに満ちた思考の迷宮へと変貌させる力を持っています。 特筆すべきは、ナンセンスを芸術の域まで高めたその筆致です。象との対話や巨大な桃での生活といった突飛な設定は、読者の想像力を極限まで引き延ばし、世代を超えた真剣な対話を誘発します。本書は、言葉遊びという名の哲学的な遊戯であり、人間存在の滑稽さと愛おしさを肯定する情熱的な一冊です。この本を手に取ることは、自らの感性を再発見する知的な冒険に他なりません。