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Summary: Wonderfully entertaining!
Review: This is certainly not your typical travel book -- thanks heavens! This is a wonderful story of a family with 3 children who incidentally take a year to make a trip around the world! Everyone can recognize their family in the well-written book! I laughed out loud so many times and read portions out loud to my family! Now all of them are reading it as well! The real test: I bought 2 copies to ship to friends! Such wonderful entertainment!
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Summary: I enjoyed this book more than if I had gone with my own kids
Review: One Year Off is a wonderful read -- a hilarious romp around the world with the author and his family. What parent wouldn't relate to the picky eater, the drama princess, the baby smearing ketchup on a stranger's linen suit in France? I enjoyed this book much MORE than if I had taken my own family, since, like one of the author's friends, this venture -- at least with my four children -- would be my idea of hell. The writing is conversational yet succinct. The places and events Cohen describes are at various times amusing, terrifying, poignant. I am planning to give this book to friends for Channukah, Christmas, Kwaanza, etc. READ IT! p.s. Those reviewers who have complained that the book is "self-serving" should know from the subtitle, cover and intro that it is ABOUT a trip with family, by a man approaching a mid-life awakening. GET REAL!
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Summary: Excellent Lessons for Life!
Review: I read this book years ago and continue to share it with friends and family members. It is a lovely mix of family stories and world travel. I particularly like the lessons it teaches us about how important life is. We only go around once so we better make it good.
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Summary: TERRIFIC book!
Review: What a fun book! Great reading for anyone who has ever yearned to pick up and go--you can live vicariously through these people who actually did it! In doing what most of us would be too terrified to do--giving up all material possessions, the Cohen family takes that huge leap and dares to live their dream.Lighthearted and fun, this book takes you along on their travels across the world with their three young children. (Can't agree with the main review that they endangered their children on the way--any parent knows that accidents will happen anywhere.) The book is casually written, following their adventures in letter format. If you are looking for serious cultural or travel info, this probably isn't the book for you. But if you want to curl up on the couch for a fun read, this is a great choice! I wish their trip had never ended, so I could have kept on reading their story.
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Summary: One of the most enjoyable books I've ever read!
Review: I don't know when I have enjoyed a book so much!! David Cohen and his lovely wife have my admiration for all the planning and effort that it took to put this project into effect and see it though. Taking three small children on a journey around the world would be a feat in inself, but for an entire year is something else. This book made a big hit with my entire family. My mother plans to review it for her book club next month and I was elated when my busy executive brother from Houston had a good time reading it during a recent visit. My congratulations to David Cohen for the humorous way in which he expresses himself and for sharing this fascinating journey with all of us.
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Summary: Could've Dug Deeper...
Review: Cohen doesn't ever own up to his story or its meaning. While it was helpful to my husband & I to read before traipsing off to live an adventure in the English countryside with our five little ones, it left us with the feeling that we could certainly do better.
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Summary: Great Book!!
Review: as I am a father of 3 little kids, this book was a very interesting reading. I am inspired do go on a few adventures like that myself, though I wouldn't go for a whole year
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Summary: Fantastically Inspiring
Review: Having bought this book i simply could not put it down. I admire anybody who can sell their house and car to travel somewhere new, taking the bull by the horns and knowing they need to take a risk to experience life. I know, i've done it! However, this was a risk and a half. I read the book living the adventure through David Cohen and his family and didn't want it to end. I am truly inspired and saving for a journey of my own (though i am not sure i am quite brave enough to do what he did).
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Summary: What did you expect??
Review: (...) the children were the BEST part. Isn't it obvious by the book jacket that this is a story about a FAMILY's adventures? Written first person by the Dad, it can only have his perspectives and thoughts, with Devi's and the kids' interjecting every so often. I am amused by their antics and the sibling rivalry is definitely true to life. (Don't) forget that David's purpose to take this trip was NOT to research a book, but to spend time on an adventure with his family, which he does to (most of) our delight. If he had spent more time polishing this book on the journey, I'm certain his joy with the family would have suffered, and I am happy to read the entertainment that he spins for us. Definitely read the book. It's fun, a good read, filled with a couple of practical tidbits (tricks and bribes =)) here and there about travelling with your family. When I have kids I'll definitely do the same, even if they don't appreciate it yet!!
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Summary: I want to be their nanny!
Review: I recently grabbed this book at the Boston Airport because of its colorful cover. I loved it! Stories from Turkey, Laos, India only made me want to sell my car and use the money to travel to these countries. But I also wanted to know more about their nanny from Guatamala. Why didn't they go to her homeland? Before I make the big decision to sell my car, I just want to know one thing...how is the family after a year back in U.S. Did the kids think it was well worth the experience. I hope so.
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