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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing. I wish I could say I really enjoyed this book... but I didn't. It was not at all what I expected. I will say that this is closest to enjoying a book filled with sports as I have ever gotten. It had it's good points, "The Conversation We Are Born Into" and "Don't Answer the Phone". However, I spent much of this book just plodding through, hoping it would get better. I just couldn't get into it. It just wasn't to my taste. Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing. I would have abandoned this book of essays, except I received it through LibraryThing.com Early Reviewers program and felt obligated to give it a fair shake. I just never got into these writings about sports, friendship, music, telephones, and everything else I've immediately forgotten. The last chapter - "Something Out of Nothing (a short story)" - made no sense. Maybe my brain was fried after 180 slow-moving pages. Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing. This book is full with short stories, witch i think are really great. I love short stories, but i can understand that not everyone is a fan of it. The author writes everything in his view, very interesting to read, altough it's not a big pageturner.The book gets you to think about certain issues. Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing. I have to say that I really didn't care for this book. I think it was partly due to my expectations. The Early Reviewer description made it sound like a quirky, funny memoir, when it is really a collection of essays that jump back and forth in time. I think however, it was mostly due to the author's tone that he's a hip intellectual and the rest of the world isn't - I felt like he was talking down to his audience. I think he realizes it to a degree as seen in this this statement from Gordo, God and Gandhi: "Admittedly, I tend to blather like a college philosophy major stoned on Budweiser." nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
In clothing, Bermuda Shorts are a kind of casual formal wear - and in this collection of essays, Bermuda Shorts is the perfect metaphor for James J. Patterson's fundamentally serious but playful literary style. Patterson writes like the love child of Henry Miller and Mary Karr, with all the contradictions that implies -- a philosopher who thinks best over a glass of fine wine; an ex-Catholic still haunted by the image of the Crucifixion; an irreverent political satirist whose patriotism flies the flag of another iconoclast, Thomas Paine. Patterson grew up with a foot planted in each of two worlds -- one in Washington DC, the Capital of the Empire as he calls it, where the wheels of power spin, and one in rural Ontario, where his Canadian mother insisted the family spend their summers. His father, one of the wizards of twentieth century newspaper publishing, introduced him to the city's wheels of money and power, which he would later navigate as an entrepreneur, starting his first business at 20. But those Canadian summers introduced him to a different world - one where a cedar strip boat was better than any car, and where the ghosts of those who'd previously inhabited the family's island house floated out over the water of Lovesick Lake. It is those two worlds that blend in this collection, in reflections both serious and playful, on what it means to be a man, an artist, an iconoclast, a patriot, a lover, as the 20th century rolls over into the 21st. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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3 stars
This is a mixed bag of essays on many subjects, obviously collected over a period of time. There are several rather repetitive essays dealing with his time as a musician. These selections touch on the politics and social climate of the 80’s and contain an ongoing rant against conservative viewpoints. (Not that I disagree with him, but he was ranting, not presenting an opposite viewpoint) Most of the essays are to some degree autobiographical and the best are filled with nostalgia. I’m not much of a sports fan, but Patterson is passionate in his love of sports and his dedication as a fan. I found the sports essays (even those about football which I do not enjoy) to be the best of the lot.
I read the kindle version of this collection. I was disappointed that there weren’t any references to when and where each essay was first published. I’m fairly sure that some were texts of speeches, but there were not any references to indicate that either.
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