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Summary: Let me out of this car
Review: Terrible! Al Roker should be ashamed of this. I got the book as a gift, for Father's Day. Very Disappointing. Who cares if Al has sperm motility problems? His snide description of his "little guys" was repulsive! The title promised so much, but we got so little. I read 20 pages, 10 too many. Waste of time and money. Don't buy or even borrow it from the library.
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Summary: Always liked you Al..now I think I love you!
Review: The most enjoyable read I've had in a long time! I always respected and enjoyed Al as our local weatherman on the local NBC news - this the THE man you always trusted to tell you the REAL weather..well after reading the book..this is the man you're going to trust telling you about REAL life too. The candor he expresses with regard to the medical profession.. the arbitrary nature of health insurance..adoption..divorce..marriage..racism are but a few topics covered in this book. It enlightened me..it made me laugh and cry..but more than that..it made me want the book to never end. This is more than a "celebrity fluff" book. Run..don't walk and get this book..for yourself..and share it with anyone you love.
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Summary: Great book, quick read
Review: The other reviews are right -- 86 pages or so is way too long to go on about his sperm problems and an almost minute-by-minute account of their artificial insemination and delivery. Roker should realize his subtitle is "Adventures in Fatherhood," not "Adventures Getting to Fatherhood." I happened to read the book from middle to end, then beginning to middle, so I avoided being turned off like others. Following the second pregnancy is a section on the adoption of his first daughter, with his first wife, follows through page 114. Then, the real book starts -- the bit about being a father (and being his father's son), not on technically becoming a father.
This is less a book than a series of essays, but they're very good essays! We go from the times his bus driver father took him to work with him, to the time his third grade daughter was called a racial epithet in school, to that first phone call to his daughter from a boy.
Roker touches on many universal fatherhood experiences, such as the feeling we get when someone sees a father with his children and asks if we're "babysitting."
One day his daughter and he were inundated with fans at an amusement park. Roker reports, "The park's head security officer came over and asked me if I wanted some protection. Hey, I'm no Michael Jackson here. First of all, I'm still black."
It's not a deep book, except glancingly, and perhaps we'd be lost if we didn't already know Roker from TV. But it's well-told. I recommend it, especially if you can borrow it!
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Summary: THIS IS A HUMOROUS, AND POIGNANT LOOK AT FATHERHOOD
Review: This book made me laugh out loud, and it brought tears to my eyes time after time. Al Roker is a true father and the love he has for his children is very clear in this book. I found the book to be entertaining, informative, and full of warmth. Al's personality really comes across in this book. I would recommend it to all of my friends, and I will read it again.
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Summary: AL ROKER...A NON ROKKER
Review: This is an autobiography as related to the author's two children. He doesn't delve into any other area of his life except about a few comments of his TV career. Al's sincerity comes through, shining, but this book is meant for the first time parent at a youthful age. There is not a whole lot of information to pay attention to, but this is just a simple story of how one man looks at his status of fatherhood.
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Summary: AL ROKER...A NON ROKKER
Review: This is an autobiography as related to the author's two children. He doesn't delve into any other area of his life except about a few comments of his TV career. Al's sincerity comes through, shining, but this book is meant for the first time parent at a youthful age. There is not a whole lot of information to pay attention to, but this is just a simple story of how one man looks at his status of fatherhood.
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Summary: don't make me stop this car
Review: This is the worst book I have ever read! My advise to Al is: Don't give up your day job!
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Summary: Honest yet hysterical
Review: This is true Roker. It isn't often that I laugh outloud and re-read a line to laugh yet again aloud. This book is both touching and very funny... to experience the pregnancy, fatherhood, and interactions with others through Roker's eyes. This book is on my Father's Day list for sure! Highly enjoyable.
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Summary: cute and agreeable, much like the author himself
Review: Though I enjoyed reading this book because it was light and entertaining, it's not Proust. In fact, it's not even tremendously insightful about parenthood. There are some funny stories (for my money, the funniest pages had to do with Al's description of using the blue rubber bulb snot sucker to clean his baby's nose. He calls her his little mucus machine), but overall, the writing is too chatty and the editing weak. For example, he recounts at length early in the book how is slipped on a softball and managed to do heavy damage to his face. Then, many chapters later, he repeats the incident with no memory of having brought it up before. Just like the example another review cites when he reintroduces characters that have been introduced already. A major release book like this could have been edited much better -- it feels rushed. Still, Roker is genial and sincere, which makes the book impossible to dislike. He shares his family history, his Bahamian background and we learn that he really is a genial guy. But I knew that before I read the book. Where the book succeeds, it's cute, but don't expect it to be profound.
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Summary: Save your money.
Review: We bought this thinking it would be about fatherhood and that it would be funny. It is neither. It's about Roker and his wife and their efforts to get pregnant (none of which are the least bit funny -- or interesting, for that matter). He talks at length about what great doctors they had. Ho, hum. He reaches down into his bag of cliches and comes up with a stinker. No doubt he's a pleasant man. Pleasant is boring.
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