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Summary: A Doting Dad's Tales
Review: I loved hearing about parenting from this dad's perspective. This book was thoroughly entertaining and filled with modern baby tales (i.e. adventures with the childproofers, the chic baby gear to use, etc.). Mr. Roker gave the reader a birds eye view of going through trying to get pregnant as well as adoption and the joys of being a family. It was really heartwarming.
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Summary: Good, but...
Review: I think Al Roker is the greatest. His book was both informative and funny. However, after he details his trials and tribulations of becoming a father, the book gets choppy. He doesn't tie the chapters together too well. Over all though it was a very good read that I couldn't put down
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Summary: Don't Bother
Review: I wish I would have never wasted my money!
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Summary: Muddled, but good-natured and often insightful
Review: If you like Al Roker on television, you'll like this book. As hard as this is to believe, Al writes the way that he talks, often rambling over a wide range of subjects without much structure, and using plenty of exclamation points for punctuation. Once you get used to this, though, you're in for a treat. The first half of the book is an unflinching look at the Rokers' struggle to have a child. After this, he lightens up a little bit in a series of essays that don't have much in common, but which work well as stand-alone pieces. Occasionally Al swings and misses (I'm not sure I really care what his opinion on Ricky Martin is), but on the whole he is cheerful and engaging.
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Summary: Audio version is a disaster
Review: It seems all the reviewers exposed to the audio version had the same reaction I did. Mr. Roker self-narrates with only occasional hints of embarrassment all the banal details of getting to be a father, leaving absolutely nothing out. I tried to hang on until he actually gets into the kind of parenting situations alluded to by the title and cover photograph, but I just couldn't make it. One-third the way into the presentation, The baby's still not even born, and he and his wife are deciding how to decorate the nursery (they ultimately chose to sponge-paint the walls). That's where I bailed, feeling ashamed with myself for sticking with it for as long as I did. I've never felt so abused by an audio book in my life.
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Summary: Easy read, somewhat entertaining
Review: Received as a Father's Day gift. Al Roker's: Don't Make Me Stop This Car, is an easy read but left me a bit less than entertained.More like a collection of essays rather than a narrative, the book cointains Al's personal, although a bit shallow, experiences in pregnancy, adoption and artificial insemination (yes, you read correctly). While there are a handful of funny parts in the book, they are few and far between. Two other books that I have heard Al's book being compared to are: Babyhood and Couplehood by Paul Reiser. Well, in my humble opinion, both of Reiser's book are astoundingly better than Al's book. (Sorry Al!)
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Summary: Easy read, somewhat entertaining
Review: Received as a Father's Day gift. Al Roker's: Don't Make Me Stop This Car, is an easy read but left me a bit less than entertained. More like a collection of essays rather than a narrative, the book cointains Al's personal, although a bit shallow, experiences in pregnancy, adoption and artificial insemination (yes, you read correctly). While there are a handful of funny parts in the book, they are few and far between. Two other books that I have heard Al's book being compared to are: Babyhood and Couplehood by Paul Reiser. Well, in my humble opinion, both of Reiser's book are astoundingly better than Al's book. (Sorry Al!)
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Summary: The worst book ever. I wish I could give it zero stars!
Review: Simply stated, this is the worst book I have ever read. In fact, I have to admit that this is the first book I can remember not being able to finish. It's just that bad. By the time I abandoned "Don't make me stop this car", approximately a third of the way through the book, the baby hadn't even been born yet. Instead, Roker spends over 100 pages walking the reader through every painful, minute detail of he and his wife's efforts to get pregnant, including a miscarriage and the step-by-step details of her artificial insemination. Anybody with kids will care less, because they'll have already gone through it themselves. Anybody without kids will care less, because there's just nothing interesting to read about. Have I mentioned how bad this book is???? As I write this, used copies of "Don't make me stop this car" are available on Amazon starting at...
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Summary: The worst book ever. I wish I could give it zero stars!
Review: Simply stated, this is the worst book I have ever read. In fact, I have to admit that this is the first book I can remember not being able to finish. It's just that bad. By the time I abandoned "Don't make me stop this car", approximately a third of the way through the book, the baby hadn't even been born yet. Instead, Roker spends over 100 pages walking the reader through every painful, minute detail of he and his wife's efforts to get pregnant, including a miscarriage and the step-by-step details of her artificial insemination. Anybody with kids will care less, because they'll have already gone through it themselves. Anybody without kids will care less, because there's just nothing interesting to read about. Have I mentioned how bad this book is???? As I write this, used copies of "Don't make me stop this car" are available on Amazon starting at...
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Summary: Al Roker: Don't Make Me Stop This Car
Review: Sorry to disagree with the other reviews, but this is undoubtedly the most boring book I have ever read. No offense to Mr. Roker...I really like the guy, so I'm especially disappointed. I heard him on the radio promoting the book, and he was a riot. So what happened? We've all been cornered by the well-meaning, but incredibly self-absorbed young couple that wants to tell us, blow by blow, every detail of their pregnancy and delivery. Well, that's exactly what this book does to you...Corners you, bores you, and finally lets you go, with regret that you wasted so much money on the book. Sorry gang, but this book was excruciating.
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