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Summary: Great coffee table book, and an important reminder.
Review: I was given a copy of this book by my sister Amy for Christmas this year. I have two little daughters and she obviously understands the importance of a Dad in her life and wanted me to as well.This is not a deep read, just photos and short bits of wisdom. However, that's not to say it isn't emotionally resonating. I had tears in my eyes while reading and thinking about the role I have in my two daughter's lives. It is humbling and wonderful at the same time. If you have daughters, or know someone who does, then this book is a simple reminder of the important role that fathers play in the healthy development of their female children. A great coffee table, or end table, book to serve as a gentle reminder of the responsibility of caring for a daughter.
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Summary: Great coffee table book, and an important reminder.
Review: I was given a copy of this book by my sister Amy for Christmas this year. I have two little daughters and she obviously understands the importance of a Dad in her life and wanted me to as well. This is not a deep read, just photos and short bits of wisdom. However, that's not to say it isn't emotionally resonating. I had tears in my eyes while reading and thinking about the role I have in my two daughter's lives. It is humbling and wonderful at the same time. If you have daughters, or know someone who does, then this book is a simple reminder of the important role that fathers play in the healthy development of their female children. A great coffee table, or end table, book to serve as a gentle reminder of the responsibility of caring for a daughter.
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Summary: Not genuine or original.
Review: I, too, joined the masses and bought this book for my dad one fathers day long ago. I hope he'll forgive me, I was young and confused. Yes, this book (for lack of a better word) s[tunk]. There are books out there that have "semtimental quotes, statemeants, or life lessons" and can really move you. This perticular one missed the ball in every aspect. On every fold there is a picture on one page and a statemeant that begins with "A daughter needs a Dad..." on the next page. And although Janet Lankford-Moran did a decent job taking pictures nothing was all to moving or memorable. I might have been thinking too hard about the words to the book, and Gregory E. Lang, please excuse my bias but how can you (a man) truely know and understand the depth and true meaning of why a daughter why a DAUGHTER needs a dad? According to you. . . "A daughter needs a Dad..." "to be the standard at which she will judge all men"
***i bet insecure lesbians feel great right about now.
"to teach her what it means to always be there"
***to specific-- and personally very untrue.
"to teach her to be honest in all her dealings"
***my mom taught me that. it just (again) way to specific.
"to build a loving house on a foundation of wisdom and
understanding"
***is this really how optismism makes you think? The examples above are pretty much as good as it gets. I personally could have come up with those bummers off the top of my head. You might also note that none of the examples were really truely genuine. They could be about anybody, a best friend, a teacher, an older sibiling, a mother, perhaps. I know that circumstances vary and it seems like a cute Fathers Day gift, but it's not, I would honestly recomend you writing down the reasons why YOU need your dad, putting in pictures from the family album and getting it bound at Staple or Office Max for around the same price.
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Summary: The Truth About Us All.
Review: In all of my photographs, there are only two that I have which show my father and I together. In the first one, I am a few days old, and being held by Father, who is sitting beside Mother, who is gazing at me lovingly. It is the only picture of the three of us as a family. In the second one, I am two and he is holding me on Easter Sunday, outside our home, under the California sunshine. I saw him in fleeting glimpses over the next six years, then a final time, and he was gone. He was a father to other children, on the other side of the country, while I flipped my hair, and pretended it didn't matter. I flipped that hair for many years, refusing to reach for the tissues, crying tears I could barely own up to. I read this book with the anticipation that I would choke up on every page, and not be able to complete it. But I did. I made myself, because I know there are other people in this world besides my father and I. My husband has a daughter, and together we have a son, and at any point, although I'm sure the author didn't intend it, those guidelines for life could be applied to any of us. We, all of us, need heros..need protecting, need to know we are loved, and need to give love in return. Somewhere, in some heart, we *are* loved and missed and longed for, and that is why we need each other. If we could not do these things for one another, we would surely die. So Greg, thank you for this book.
And Janet, for these most moving of photographs.
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Summary: Why a dad needs this book
Review: Many fathers have difficulty really expressing their love and affection towards their daughters - and daughters to their dads. In this book the feeling is evident and pervasive. Daughters mean the world to fathers and fathers are irreplaceable to their daughters. In my experience, my relationship with my father has grown steadily over time. Thankfully now, in my late twenties, I can appreciate his influence on my life and take pride in the characteristics that he has passed on to me. Just reading the opening statements from Gregory Lang made me instantly feel like sharing this special book with my father...almost as a way to help us open up more and communicate on the special bond that we share. The photographs speak volumes of the varied relationships we all have with our fathers. Some of us are still together, laughing at our inside jokes, sharing a game of catch while we barbeque in the summer. Others of us don't have that luxury of still being together but those memories still make us smile. These pictures touch my heart by helping me to remember my dad and I growing up together but also in looking back - as I begin my new life making my own family. The images are so beautiful that I feel as though I know those people...that their faces and actions speak to the true nature of their realationships with their fathers...trust, adoration, safety, comfort, wishing he was still here. This book is breathtaking and I look forward to surprising him on Father's Day with his own special book!
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Summary: A MUST HAVE FOR EVERY DAD!!!
Review: This book is filled with explanations of what a dad should be. I bought it as a Christmas gift for my husband and put pictures of my daughter and her daddy together. <br />
Excellent reading, short and to the point.<br />
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Summary: A MUST HAVE FOR EVERY DAD!!!
Review: This book is filled with explanations of what a dad should be. I bought it as a Christmas gift for my husband and put pictures of my daughter and her daddy together. <br />Excellent reading, short and to the point.<br />
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Summary: I loved this book
Review: This was an excellent book and should be read by every female who has grown up without an active Father in her life. It should be read by father's who have daugters as well. I loved it so much that I went out and bought the book about the sons. Excellent work Mr. Lang! I recommend this book to everyone!
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Summary: I loved this book
Review: This was an excellent book and should be read by every female who has grown up without an active Father in her life. It should be read by father's who have daugters as well. I loved it so much that I went out and bought the book about the sons. Excellent work Mr. Lang! I recommend this book to everyone!
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