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Title: A Little More About Me by Pam Houston ISBN: 0-7434-0633-8 Publisher: Washington Square Press Pub. Date: 03 October, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.03 (30 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This book took me adventuring and yet brought me home.
Comment: I have read, re-read, and often recommended Pam Houston's book "Cowboys Are My Weakness," so it was with a shudder of anticipation that I found her newest book "A Little More About Me" on the table at my local bookseller. Sure, this book is about her (for those other reviewers who missed the point...). But the book manages to be about her, and also about me, and countless other women as well. Through the course of rich and vivid descriptions of her adventures - essays that so often read like long poems - I realized that (once again) Houston is holding a mirror up to womankind and challenging us to recognize the quirks and patterns that have driven us throughout history. Houston's attraction to danger, her need to please men who prove to be inconsequential, her celebration of female friendship and fascination with the inner workings of the opposite sex, and her desire to detail every meal cooked and eaten at trail's end all feel familiar to me. I loved "In the Company of Fishermen". It made me wish I could be there, fishing alongside them. I read it out loud to my three-year-old son, who remained mesmerized to the end. I was glad to be able to give him a great story about men who remain friends, about a brave woman, and to show him that fishermen can be poets, and the reverse as well. Outside her adventures, Houston's writing is sprinkled with references to so many of my favorite things - movies, books, songs, and foods - that it makes it hard NOT to take her writing personally. To the reader looking for a simple adventure tale: Houston's self-disclosure will make you uncomfortable, guaranteed. Even though I'm interested in what makes Houston tick, I found myself a little unnerved by her descriptions of her childhood. This took the form of the sort of discomfort one feels when a co-worker tells you more than you need to know about their home life. I was stunned her find her chapter detailing her weight and body issues, and yet by the end I was as delighted as I would be if Self magazine called me up tomorrow to tell me I had the ideal body type for the new millennium and asked me to share my diet and exercise secrets (unlikely). So much of this rang true and hit home like a very pointed arrow. Parts of this book made me sorry for Houston and the things she has experienced, but I never felt pity, just the sort of sorry understanding one has for a friend who pulled the short straw and still persevered. At the end I wished I could meet Houston, spend some time with her, maybe drink a little tequila and invite her to help me climb Shasta on my 40th birthday. But realistically, I'm looking for a simple, smooth, safe climb with a great view - no search parties involved. I look forward to more of Houston's writing and will seek out her essays in periodicals as well. She manages to take me away from my own life (differenly colored than hers, and not nearly as dangerous) and still, somehow, bring me home. This was a colorful, introspective (okay, say it - self-indulgent) read that I really enjoyed. However, I suspect it is the sort of book an author only gets away with once.
Rating: 2
Summary: A very honest book, but Pam can do better
Comment: I read this book, and felt the same as some of the other reviewers- this book feels very self conscious. Then as I got towards the end, my opinon changed- this book is incredibly honest. I can relate to her feelings during some of her adventures, and her expressed concerns would be similar to mine. My problem with this book is the 'believability' factor. Who has the time and money to do all the things she's done. I find it hard to believe that this is one person adventuring out on her own. I got the distinct impression that she was sponsored by her publisher who arranged all these trips for her so that she would have something to write about. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it takes something away from the feel of the book Also, what happen to her marriage? She alludes that it broke up, but gives no more details. Based on the last story, I can see why she is no longer with her husband.
Rating: 4
Summary: If you've read her before, you'll like this
Comment: A rambling collection of essays that indeed reveal much about the author of her quirky books. Provides insight into who she is, why she would risk life and limb just to prove a point, how she defines 'home,' her relationships with men and dogs and trucks...
Goes down easy.
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Title: Tomboy Bride: A Woman's Personal Account of Life in Mining Camps of the West by Harriet Fish Backus, Pam Houston ISBN: 0871085127 Publisher: Pruett Publishing Co. Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Women on Hunting by Pam Houston ISBN: 0880014431 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Men Before Ten A.M. by Pam Houston, Veronique Vial ISBN: 1885223196 Publisher: Beyond Words Publising Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank ISBN: 0140293248 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros ISBN: 0679734775 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 03 April, 1991 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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