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Summary: Emotion Without Substance
Review: I extensively mark books that move me, motivate me, inspire me, and instruct me. I have virtually no marks in this book. It reminds me of the communicators who know how to play with an audience's emotions, but when they're gone, there's no substance. This book will move you emotionally, but it doesn't really leave you any better off in the long run.Fulghum has the gift of communication. He can tickle your emotions, but he just doesn't say much when he's through. His book is full of personal anecdotes. Nothing wrong with that, per se. A lot of storytellers have made a fine living that way. If that's what you want, escapism, then you'll find it in this book. It's just that Fulghum and I apparently don't have the same worldview or appreciation for the same things.
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Summary: Emotion Without Substance
Review: I extensively mark books that move me, motivate me, inspire me, and instruct me. I have virtually no marks in this book. It reminds me of the communicators who know how to play with an audience's emotions, but when they're gone, there's no substance. This book will move you emotionally, but it doesn't really leave you any better off in the long run. Fulghum has the gift of communication. He can tickle your emotions, but he just doesn't say much when he's through. His book is full of personal anecdotes. Nothing wrong with that, per se. A lot of storytellers have made a fine living that way. If that's what you want, escapism, then you'll find it in this book. It's just that Fulghum and I apparently don't have the same worldview or appreciation for the same things.
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Summary: i was 14 when i read it and now i want it back
Review: i really liked this book a lot when i found this book at a second hand store the girl that worked there made such big deal about that every one looked at me like i was weird or something i was like "yeah hes a really good writter" even my mom was like is he really good i said i think so.... so 4 years later am like am going to get me every book i read by Robert Fulghum
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Summary: i was 14 when i read it and now i want it back
Review: i really liked this book a lot when i found this book at a second hand store the girl that worked there made such big deal about that every one looked at me like i was weird or something i was like "yeah hes a really good writter" even my mom was like is he really good i said i think so.... so 4 years later am like am going to get me every book i read by Robert Fulghum
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Summary: Great Life Observations!
Review: Robert Fulghum has a magnificent sense of humor, which contributes greatly to his skill as a writer and speaker. With his Unitarian sense of the world, he sucks us in...even when we don't realize we are being sucked in. He captivates our imaginations and emotions and much like our friend from Lake Wobagon, he makes the everyday come alive with excitement. It's well worth your time to read this book. Jeffrey McAndrew
author of "Our Brown-Eyed Boy"
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Summary: Wonderful!!
Review: This book has touched me more than any other one I've ever read. I sometimes refer to it as my personal bible. Fulghum's ideas on the simple things in life always give me hope that life isn't as bad as I sometimes think it is. This book will make you think about things in a different way. Personally, I carry it with me wherever I go and use the stories to apply to some of the hardest subjects in life.
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Summary: Wonderful!!
Review: This book is simliar to ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN in consisting of several dozen short, easily readable, reflective essays. I liked his first book a little better - I thought the overall quality a little higher. There are, however, many fine pieces in this collection (including one commenting on the theme of his first book that is brutally honest). The mood is a bit darker in this second volume, but that is not meant as a perjorative description, it merely means that Fulghum shows a different side to his ponderings. If you liked his first book, you will like this one. If you didn't, then you won't like this one either.
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Summary: More collected essays
Review: This book is simliar to ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN in consisting of several dozen short, easily readable, reflective essays. I liked his first book a little better - I thought the overall quality a little higher. There are, however, many fine pieces in this collection (including one commenting on the theme of his first book that is brutally honest). The mood is a bit darker in this second volume, but that is not meant as a perjorative description, it merely means that Fulghum shows a different side to his ponderings. If you liked his first book, you will like this one. If you didn't, then you won't like this one either.
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Summary: Show and Tell
Review: This was my first introduction to Robert Fulghum and meeting this humorous man was truely enjoyable. Like many personal accounts on life, there were things that he writes about I found touched me deeply and others that were just interesting. It was a pleasure to take a peek into his world of "show and tell" and compare it to my own. Robert Fulghum's perspective is healthy and positive and he even redeems himself with the dog population in the credits at the back of the book. His humor added a dimension to some of his tales that made them truely memorable "lessons of life." A book to make you laugh and cry.
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Summary: Show and Tell
Review: This was my first introduction to Robert Fulghum and meeting this humorous man was truely enjoyable. Like many personal accounts on life, there were things that he writes about I found touched me deeply and others that were just interesting. It was a pleasure to take a peek into his world of "show and tell" and compare it to my own. Robert Fulghum's perspective is healthy and positive and he even redeems himself with the dog population in the credits at the back of the book. His humor added a dimension to some of his tales that made them truely memorable "lessons of life." A book to make you laugh and cry.
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