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Title: All Summer Long by Bob Greene ISBN: 0312262841 Publisher: Griffin Trade Paperback Pub. Date: July, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75
Rating: 5
Summary: A Great Escape
Comment: I stumbled upon Bob Greene's All Summer Long a couple of years ago when I read his "Hang Time" book about Michael Jordan. The subject matter of several friends putting everything aside for a Summer and roadtriping around the country has always been appealing to me and this story didn't disappoint. Although this is a fictional account, you really feel as if the author is recanting a journey that he actually took. I found myself really wanting to do something like this someday as well. I highly recommend this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: No Pulitzer - Just Extremely Readable and Entertaining
Comment: This book will take the male reader - from 18 to 80 - on a fantasy ride that will hold his interest from page one to the end. This wasn't written to be considered "literature;" it simply entertains very well and gives the reader's his money's worth.
I'm now reading it for the second time. How many books get THAT award from readers?
Rating: 3
Summary: Maybe I'll Understand When I Have My Midlife Crisis
Comment: No wonder Bob Greene's so much more well known as a columnist than a novelist. All Summer Long, while full of good writing and interesting situations, seems to me to be self-serving and melodramatic. If only this had been written as non-fiction, I would have not only believed it, but would have respected it. Instead, I could predict what would happen pages ahead of time and kept thinking that maybe I have can have career as a novelist after all. It's just not very interesting to anyone but the characters. If I ran into any of these guys in a airport or at a ballgame or in a hotel lobby, I'd not only think them quite unspectacular, but wouldn't dig too deeply into their lives, as I'm sure I'd be bored before they got around to reliving their first "adventure."
Oh, woe is the forty-three year old Midwestern male, who can't face the reality of everyday life. Sure, there isn't a person alive who wouldn't like to take the summer off and travel, but I don't know how many of us want to do it with a bunch of people that we were really only close to 25 years ago. Forget my friends from high school, I want to take off with the people who mean something to me today -- people with whom I have something in common besides having attended the same school two and a half decades ago. This is exactly why we have reunions every five years, not every day. For the most part, they have no relevance in our daily lives.
That said, I still enjoyed the escapism this book offers. Greene offers simple, but significant insights into human nature, especially those that I imagine for men in their mid forties. The trio's travels are both funny and sad, and Greene doesn't necessarily push the reader one way or another. Things just happen and the summer is over, just like it is for you and me. And just like yours and mine, no one can really say they're interested in these sad sacks.
Greene steals the title from the Beach Boys song, although a song more representative and equally sappy might have been Terry Jacks's Seasons In The Sun. They had joy, they had fun, they had a season in the sun. Big deal.
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Title: Chevrolet Summers, Dairy Queen Nights by Bob Greene ISBN: 0060959665 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 20 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Be True to Your School: A Diary of 1964 by Bob Greene ISBN: 0345353943 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: August, 1990 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Duty: : A Father, His Son, and the Man Who Won the War by Bob Greene ISBN: 0380814110 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 24 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The 50 Year Dash: The Feelings, Foibles and Fears of Being Half a Century Old by Bob Greene ISBN: 0385493010 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen by Bob Greene ISBN: 0060081961 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 28 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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