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3.9 AVERAGE
3.9 AVERAGE
Started slow, ended slow. Read on the recommendations of friends. Didn't enjoy it.
A lovely story of a boy searching for lessons about manhood, a working class narrative--nicely written.
emotional
lighthearted
reflective
slow-paced
This should be the gold standard for memoirs! It might also help that JR has a background in drinking, storytelling, and a love of words - the prose is lyrical.
funny
reflective
fast-paced
I really did like this book, and if there was a yellow star that fit in between "I really liked it" and "it was amazing", i would mark that one.
I just read the last sentence and i am wiping away tears, like i just said goodbye to a community, to a group of dear friends. As the title, it's a very tender memoir and it touched me in many ways. I hope you like it too.
I just read the last sentence and i am wiping away tears, like i just said goodbye to a community, to a group of dear friends. As the title, it's a very tender memoir and it touched me in many ways. I hope you like it too.
So a boy in search of a father figure after a long and windy road figures out his mother, in fact is the best role model any man could hope to have. That's the book version.
The SCREEN ADAPTATION of this should be cancelled for misogyny, it COMPLETELY writes out Mom's pivotal role in this young man's life. Ben Affleck, playing Uncle Charlie, doesn't play the character bald, cuz I guess Affleck is too vain, and Uncle Charlie completely overshadows MOM. So in the book, Mom moves to Arizona get the protagonist away from a toxic homelife. In the film, mother and son never leave grandpas house and loser uncle Charlie, who lives at home in his forties with a drinking and gambling problem. Somehow Uncle Charlie is the pivotal figure in young JR's life?
No way, George Clooney and whoever the, I am assuming male screenplay writer was? You suck.
The SCREEN ADAPTATION of this should be cancelled for misogyny, it COMPLETELY writes out Mom's pivotal role in this young man's life. Ben Affleck, playing Uncle Charlie, doesn't play the character bald, cuz I guess Affleck is too vain, and Uncle Charlie completely overshadows MOM. So in the book, Mom moves to Arizona get the protagonist away from a toxic homelife. In the film, mother and son never leave grandpas house and loser uncle Charlie, who lives at home in his forties with a drinking and gambling problem. Somehow Uncle Charlie is the pivotal figure in young JR's life?
No way, George Clooney and whoever the, I am assuming male screenplay writer was? You suck.
We listened to this in the car home from Thanksgiving. It's good. We are not quite finished so i hope we find time to finish!
Marvelous. I don't read many memoirs, but I might have to change that. I loved this one.