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Summary: It's a Wonderful Life has met it's match
Review: Against Tall Odds is a life story of an amazing individual, Matt Roloff, and his family. A family faced with so many challenges and yet still able to find the good in life which most people never get the opportunity to experience. This is a true description of the underdog (Matt) winning in the game of life.
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Summary: Wow!
Review: An inspirational story adressing Roloff's specific challenges that somehow speak to all of us.
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Summary: A truly inspirational and insightful book.
Review: As an averaged-sized person who often feels overwhelmed by the day-to-day struggles of life, this book is an eye-opener and an inspiration to not only deal with the struggles but to embrace those struggles that make life challenging, exciting and worth living. His insight into parenting applies to all parents and his outlook on life is amazing. It was a wonderful book to read and very uplifting.
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Summary: I can relate...
Review: As the father of a "little person" I can relate to Matt Roloff's book. It is a great motivator to other "little people" and parents of "little people". It just shows if you put your mind to something it can/will get done.
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Summary: An engaging and inspiring book for readers of all ages
Review: At one level, Against Tall Odds is about overcoming the challenges of being a little person in a world built and inhabited largely by average-sized people. At a more basic level, it is about being human and learning to live a full and productive life no matter who you are or where you start from.Matt Roloff, a highly-successful software and services developer and part-time real estate entrepreneur, started from a place that's hard to imagine even after you read his own account. As a diastrophic dwarf, Roloff spent a significant part of his early life in San Francisco's Shriner's Hospital. There, well-intentioned but ultimately ineffectual doctors subjected him to a battery of excruciating medical procedures designed to "straighten, twist and lengthen different parts of [his] body," and hospital staff enforced a strict visitation policy that limited family visits to 2 hours per week. During the long days and nights that he lay immobilized in a body cast, Roloff stared at the white ceiling tiles and dreamed. Later on, those dreams became the mainspring of an active, intriguing and inspiring life that revolves around his wife, their four young children, and their Disneyesque 35-acre farm/home that is the creative expression of his fertile mind. Roloff's progression from the baby the doctors were afraid to tell his parents about to an accomplished, multi-talented adult is a fascinating and touching story, told against the background of an amazing family; of siblings whose physical infirmities and will to live rival his own; and of parents whose faith, humor, strength of character and unselfish love instilled in their children the curious notion--so evident throughout this book--that life is to be relished, not endured. Against Tall Odds is an engaging book for readers of all ages. It should be required reading for every middle school student and is definitely a must-read for anyone who has ever excused himself for anything on the grounds that life isn't fair.
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Summary: This is a must-read book!
Review: I have read this book and I loved it. As a fellow woman with the same disability that Matt has, I truly appreciated his novel. Personally, I know Matt, and know that he would want everyone to read this book. It it beyond great. I have experienced similiar things, and enjoy his accuracy, voice, and writing style.
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Summary: Got problems? Read this book, wake up, and start living!!!
Review: If this book doesn't teach you how to see past your problems and realize "Hey, I'm alive, I should start living!", nothing will! A truly inspiring story. Matt is truly different from the rest of us in one remarkable way; he dwells on life's highlights, and figures out how to make them brighter. It's an ability we all have, but it's amazing how infrequently most of us practice it. Buy this book and remind yourself how to live life to it's fullest. Thank you Matt!
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Summary: Got problems? Read this book, wake up, and start living!!!
Review: If this book doesn't teach you how to see past your problems and realize "Hey, I'm alive, I should start living!", nothing will! A truly inspiring story. Matt is truly different from the rest of us in one remarkable way; he dwells on life's highlights, and figures out how to make them brighter. It's an ability we all have, but it's amazing how infrequently most of us practice it. Buy this book and remind yourself how to live life to it's fullest. Thank you Matt!
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Summary: A Truly Inspirational Story
Review: If you are a parent, I urge you to read this book! Not only were Matt's parents thrown into the world of raising a little person in an "average-sized" world, they excelled at teaching Matt that despite his disabilities, he could not only survive, but succeed in this world. They never gave Matt an opportunity to pitty himself. We live in a world that tells us to blame someone for everything that happens in our life. Matt never did that -- today he is a successful businessman, a devoted husband and loving father. This book taught me that God has a purpose and plan for everyone's life and we must use our talents to the best of our ability. Matt's life has turned out better than what he could have ever imagined. What a wonderful story!
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Summary: A Truly Inspirational Story
Review: If you are a parent, I urge you to read this book! Not only were Matt's parents thrown into the world of raising a little person in an "average-sized" world, they excelled at teaching Matt that despite his disabilities, he could not only survive, but succeed in this world. They never gave Matt an opportunity to pitty himself. We live in a world that tells us to blame someone for everything that happens in our life. Matt never did that -- today he is a successful businessman, a devoted husband and loving father. This book taught me that God has a purpose and plan for everyone's life and we must use our talents to the best of our ability. Matt's life has turned out better than what he could have ever imagined. What a wonderful story!
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