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by Christopher Noxon

Author:	Christopher Noxon
Subcategory:	Social Sciences
Language:	English
Publisher:	Crown (June 20, 2006)
Pages:	288 pages
Category:	Politics
Rating:	4.1
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With Rejuvenile, Christopher Noxon brilliantly charts the continual turning of the Boomers, X’ers and Y’ers away . We seriously need more playful times, and Rejuvenile will help us get there.

With Rejuvenile, Christopher Noxon brilliantly charts the continual turning of the Boomers, X’ers and Y’ers away from the brittle authority of work-obsessed adulthood. Pat Kane, author of The Play Ethic: A Manifesto for a Different Way of Living. Christopher Noxon has the same affection for the ingenuous adults he describes as they do for their Ninja Turtles, skateboards, and Lego blocks.

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Christopher Noxon has coined a word for this new breed of grown-up: rejuveniles. And as a self-confessed rejuvenile, he’s a sympathetic yet critical guide to this bright and shiny world of people who see growing up as winding down -exchanging a life of playful flexibility for anxious days tending lawns and mutual funds. In Rejuvenile, Noxon explores the historical roots of today’s rejuveniles (hint: all roads lead to Peter Pan), the toyification of practical devices (car cuteness is at an all-time high), and the new gospel of play.

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Author: Christopher Noxon. Once upon a time, boys and girls grew up and set aside childish things. Title: Rejuvenile: Kickball, Cartoons, Cupcakes, and the Reinvention of the American Grownup. No user reports were added yet. Be the first! Send report: This is a good book. Nowadays, moms and dads skateboard alongside their kids and download the latest pop-song ringtones.

Rejuvenile : Kickball, Cartoons, Cupcakes, and the Reinvention of the American Grown-Up. In Rejuvenile, Christopher Noxon identifies a profound change in what it means to be an adult in the 21st century. by Christopher Noxon. Noxon offers up the hope that some of us, at least, will be able to create a new model of maturity: more functional, and definitely more fun. " 0. Report.

Written by. Christopher Noxon. Manufacturer: Crown Release date: 20 June 2006 ISBN-10 : 1400080886 ISBN-13: 9781400080885.

Grown up kickball leagues, mommies skateboarding groups, doll and toy collectors as well as Disney World .

Grown up kickball leagues, mommies skateboarding groups, doll and toy collectors as well as Disney World aficionados are all profiled. References listed in back. Cons: I found Noxon's profiles, interviews, and presentation of the rejuvenile culture more interesting than his analysis of it. Grade: B+ ( ). charlierb3 Jul 27, 2007.

Once upon a time, boys and girls grew up and set aside childish things. Captains of industry pose. Roots of the rejuvenile - The rejuvenile at play - The lure of the toy - Uncle Walt and the adult playground - Boomerangers, twixters, and panic over grown-up kids - Playalong parents and the proudly childfree - The rejuvenile grown up. Responsibility: Christopher Noxon. Abstract: Once upon a time, boys and girls grew up and set aside childish things.

Once upon a time, boys and girls grew up and set aside childish things. Nowadays, moms and dads skateboard alongside their kids and download the latest pop-song ringtones. Captains of industry pose for the cover of BusinessWeek holding Super Soakers. The average age of video game players is twenty-nine and rising. Top chefs develop recipes for Easy-Bake Ovens. Disney World is the world’s top adult vacation destination (that’s adults without kids). And young people delay marriage and childbirth longer than ever in part to keep family obligations from interfering with their fun fun fun.Christopher Noxon has coined a word for this new breed of grown-up: rejuveniles. And as a self-confessed rejuvenile, he’s a sympathetic yet critical guide to this bright and shiny world of people who see growing up as “winding down”—exchanging a life of playful flexibility for anxious days tending lawns and mutual funds. In Rejuvenile, Noxon explores the historical roots of today’s rejuveniles (hint: all roads lead to Peter Pan), the “toyification” of practical devices (car cuteness is at an all-time high), and the new gospel of play. He talks to parents who love cartoons more than their children do, twenty-somethings who live happily with their parents, and grown-ups who evangelize on behalf of all-ages tag and Legos. And he takes on the “Harrumphing Codgers,” who see the rejuvenile as a threat to the social order. Noxon tempers stories of his and others’ rejuvenile tendencies with cautionary notes about “lost souls whose taste for childish things is creepy at best.” (Exhibit A: Michael Jackson.) On balance, though, he sees rejuveniles as optimists and capital-R Romantics, people driven by a desire “to hold on to the part of ourselves that feels the most genuinely human. We believe in play, in make believe, in learning, in naps. And in a time of deep uncertainty, we trust that this deeper, more adaptable part of ourselves is our best tool of survival.” Fresh and delightfully contrarian, Rejuvenile makes hilarious sense of this seismic culture change. It’s essential reading not only for grown-ups who refuse to “act their age,” but for those who wish they would just grow up.

Comments:

Not-the-Same

Rejuvenile is an excellent book, but is based on a concept that I believe is well-known but rarely written about. That being the case, this book takes some getting used to. Rejuveniles are all over the place today, but it's really something that the average person doesn't think about. Being an "adult kid" is epidemic in this country, though that's not necessarily a bad thing. People collect action figures, baseball cards, still go to the theater to see new Disney movies, play adult games like kickball (St. Louis, MO has an 18+ kickball league with over 100 teams, and many of its players are over 30!), and I still love watching Scooby Doo or Tom & Jerry when it's on TV.

Noxon discusses all these things: the way things are now compared to how things were 50 years ago, "good clean fun" activities to extreme sports, to more disturbing things modern rejuveniles do. To some extent, almost every adult these days is a rejuvenile in some respect. But this is the first book I've read on this subject that sounds, top to bottom, spoken by a true rejuvenile. And that's a good thing.

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I picked up this book because the character, Andy, was reading it on the TV show, "Weeds". And it was surprisingly serious. It was humorous, not boring, but it was full of facts, figures, examples and real-life examples. Noxon is a self-proclaimed Rejuvinile, yet his view on rejuvies is pretty un-biased. He touches on the negatives, the positives and everything in-between.

Prorahun

Rejuvenile is my new favorite book--smart, funny, wonderfully written. Noxon's forte is finding amazingly quirky people who illustrate his thesis and describing them in delicious detail. The last section, "Into a Rejuvenile Future," ties it all together. "[W]e rejuveniles are attempting to hang on to the part of ourselves that feels most genuinely human," Noxon writes, and we can't help but celebrate our own inner senses of wonder and curiosity and the delightful and thought provoking journey this writer takes us on.

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Simple fellow

the whole concept of rejuveniles sparked my interest, i saw a breif interview with Noxon on tv, and i was all excited to read the book. however, the author really seems to be grasping and reaching in some places, and he is wrong in others.

first off, to say the japanese are rejuveniles because of their manga and toy collections is wrong. i lived in japan for four years, manga is a large part of thier culture, the author clearly does not understand the japanese.

to say adults watching cartoons is rejuvenile isn't totally true. bugs bunny and loony tunes were originally shorts to begin adult (not porno) movies, meant for adults, which is why kids don't get the references to old actors and other jokes. look at the movies by ralph backshi, adults have always watched cartoons.

the last chapter, which gets into strange sexual fetishes involving vaguely child related things (diapers and role play) appeared takced on to make the book a bit longer, and didn't seem to fit in with the whole idea. it just seemed out of place, like he was really really reaching.

it seems Noxon had a great thesis for college and someone told him to write a book, but there just isn't enough data to back his theory up, and he tries really hard to make something out of nothing, grasping at anything remotely close to use as proof of his theory.

Noxon has some great historical points, he definatly opened my eyes to the way things are marketed, (this part of the book was one of the few things that made the book not a complete waste of time)he writes well and the subject is interesting. yes, i think there is something there, but the way Noxon presents it is misleading, factually incorrect, and doesn't sit well with me.

i really wanted to enjoy this book, but honestly, i am sorry, i think there are better books to spend your time on.

Braswyn

I found the subject of this book to be intriging and I looked forward to learning more about rejuveniles. The book was thought provoking until I read the chapter on Walt Disney. In my opinion, the author chose to present Walt Disney in an unflattering light and to perpetuate myths, gossip, and inaccuracies. That chapter tainted the book for me.

Cordalas

I didn't like this book. It was more of a culture analysis of how and why people want to act younger and playfully. I thought it would be ideas on adult adventures to have fun with life.

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