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Rental Person Who Does Nothing
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Kevin Shen
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
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Summary
Need a rental person who does nothing?
Shoji Morimoto provides a fascinating service to the lonely and socially anxious. After an old boss told him that he contributed nothing and that it made no difference whether he showed up to work or not, he wondered if a person who ‘does nothing’ could still have a place in the world. With a tweet, his Rental Person service was born.
- Have a deep secret you desperately need to reveal, so deep that you can’t tell a friend or family member?
- Have you spent a long time home alone, and want to know what it’s like to have somebody with you at your apartment?
- Or for someone to simply think of you on a stressful day? Or wave to you as you leave the train station on a long journey?
Morimoto is dependable, non-judgmental and committed to remaining a stranger throughout each request, and his encounters are revelatory about both Japanese society and human psychology.
In Rental Person Who Does Nothing, Morimoto chronicles his extraordinary experiences in his unique line of work and reflects on how we consider relationships, jobs and family in our search for meaningful connection and purpose in life.
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- Tessa
- 19-11-23
A really interesting concept
I found this book fascinating, initially, I thought it was a novel until I heard the sample. The range of requests extended beyond my expectations. It reminded me of The moth radio hour; hearing about a brief moment in a person’s life. I even liked the way the book was written by someone else talking with the author as it would be ‘doing something’ if the author wrote it himself. Through this process of talking, we hear the author’s thoughts on how he came to be the rental person and how he relates to those he spends time being with.
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- Weary World
- 25-10-23
A book that is as pointless as the title suggests.
Got very tedious. Only so much you can take of someone recounting all the pointless things they've ever done
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- TDH
- 25-07-23
Interesting.
A kind of,How to do Nothing Book for Dummies,but not without insights as the author reveals his many 'non' tasks,and wants to understand why his fellow citizens need his 'non' assistance.
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