Domesticated, James Domestic
Domesticated, James Domestic
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Domesticated

Author: James Domestic

Narrator: James Domestic

Unabridged: 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/20/2023


Synopsis

In this often witty, sometimes furious, and sometimes downright surreal collection, James Domestic does - as per usual - whatever the hell he likes, with poetry, prose, and lyrics, all thrown into the mix with abandon. Punk, politics, habit, the nature of work, the environment, nostalgia, aging, and some quintessentially British whimsy, all crammed in together like a last minute bag hurriedly packed for tour. Somehow it works.

A man in too many bands to count (The Domestics, PI$$ER, Da Groins, Tokyo Lungs... that's not even half of 'em), a solo artist, a vocalist, a songwriter, a DJ, a poet, a painter, someone who failed miserably at school, spent his early post-school life between the chemical factory and the dole, and somehow now has a PhD (yep, it's genuinely Dr Domestic!). A square peg in life's round hole. A face that never really fitted. He couldn't care less. Come along for the ride.

Domesticated is an eighty page collection of James Domestics street-poetry and punk-prose.
He's always on the road and at the gigs. His poetry has earned him comparisons to John Cooper Clarke, Ivor Cutler, Spike Milligan and Banjamin Zephaniah, amongst others.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim on September 25, 2018

This was a fascinating read, but a bit over my head. It is not a popular science book & Francis uses a lot of words that he quickly defined & I had to look back for. Others I had to look up. I'm sure no biologist would have needed to, but I'm not one & would really have appreciated a glossary. He bro......more

Goodreads review by Tanja on August 31, 2022

This book takes a look at both domestication and evolution. In a way, domestication and different breeds shows evolution in a time frame that human minds more easily can understand. An English bull-dog looks very different today than it did a mere 100 years ago. At the same time, in terms of DNA, th......more

Goodreads review by Atila on November 03, 2015

Entra como um dos melhores livros desse ano, só não é o melhor por causa de Sapiens. Excelente, daqueles que recomendo para muita gente. Reconta a domesticação de quase todos os bichos, falando de paleontologia, evolução humana e animal, história, genética e mais. Adorei descobrir que o cachorro ser......more

Goodreads review by Brian on July 15, 2022

Francis explores both historical and live-action evidence on how domestication of animals happens, how it has changed over time, and what that has done to both us and them. He focuses a lot on the story of dogs, showing how “phenotypic plasticity” led wild dogs to adapt major shifts in mentality and......more

Goodreads review by Socraticgadfly on July 09, 2015

I'd read Francis' "Why Men Won't Ask for Directions," and saw it as a solid rebuke of the worst of evolutionary psychology, and now think I need to raise my rating a star higher. I've read two other books in the past year about animal domestication, but Francis goes so much deeper into evolutionary b......more