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Summary: a favorite
Review: By now, I've probably read this book three or four times. Although the beginning was a bit boring, a couple of chapters in I got really into it. All of it was told with a bit of a funny tint. You can tell he loves his kids through it!
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Summary: a favorite
Review: By now, I've probably read this book three or four times. Although the beginning was a bit boring, a couple of chapters in I got really into it. All of it was told with a bit of a funny tint. You can tell he loves his kids through it!
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Summary: Al Roker is a sweet man
Review: Frankly, I am disappointed. I thought this book would be humor filled. I guess I was hoping for another like "Bill Cosby: Himself". This was not to be.All the other reviews are excellent, but I cannot recommend this one. Where he tried to be funny about his wife and things they went through, I thought instead he was being utterly RUDE toward and about his wife. He even criticizes his wife when he asked her to look over and critique his manuscript and she left her opinion for him. Why ask her opinion if he is just going to throw her suggestions back into her face? I do not recommend this book to anyone and that is a rare thing for me to do.
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Summary: Al Roker is a sweet man
Review: I expected something really funny and light. Instead, I learned WAY too much about the birth of one of Al Roker's children. I walked away thinking that I had learned a lot more about what a wonderful person Al Roker is......but the title led me to believe that I would have something funny to listen to over and over again.
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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: 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: 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: 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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