This book is sometimes funny, sometimes touching, but always thought-provoking. I disagreed with some views expressed in it, but mostly found a lot of relate-able material in Fulghum's writing. Read full review HERE.
Attempts to simplify the world and present a philosophy that even teabaggers might understand. Needless to say, an impossibility. F for effort.
I have a long-standing crush on Bobby Fulghum, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. There's just something so attractive about a man who has maintained his sense of wonder and appreciation of the absurd throughout his long life. Granted, some of his earlier books are perhaps a little more profound and...
I sit back in my chair, tossing the book a good five feet onto the coffee table with that trademark thump that only hardcover book can make. It skids to a stop, hanging precariously over the edge. "This should have been called Words I Wish I Wrote So Much That I Put Them Into a Book Under My Own D...
Honestly, I didn't enjoy it as much as the first few.
I haven't read the whole book a zillion times, but I have read the "quintessential wedding tale" aloud to a number of brides on their wedding days (and had it read aloud to me on mine) and it may be my favorite story in the whole world. It makes me laugh. I makes everyone laugh, with tears, runnin...
1990 Jul 30Fulghum is chock full of advice on how to be a decent person and enjoy your life.
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