1,000 Unforgettable Senior Moments: Of Which We Could Remember Only 246 Author: Tom Friedman | Language: English | ISBN:
076114076X | Format: EPUB
1,000 Unforgettable Senior Moments: Of Which We Could Remember Only 246 Description
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Featuring: The President who left the nuclear launch codes in a suit at the dry cleaners, page 51
The movie star who blew the same line through 52 takes, page 10
The cellist who forgot his $2.5 million instrument in a taxi, page 137
The studio head who couldn't recall the name of his Oscar-winning leading lady, page 27
The Russian general who left home in full military dress, minus his pants, page 68
The bank robber who wrote the holdup note on a paycheck stub, which listed his name and address, page 123
The rocker who no longer remembers 1975, page 105
And of course, the novelist who put the orange juice outside and the kitten in the refrigerator, page 152
About the Author
Tom Friedman is a writer, editor, and George Foster Peabody Award–winning documentary producer. He lives in Northern California.
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- Hardcover: 166 pages
- Publisher: Workman Publishing Company; 1ST edition (May 3, 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 076114076X
- ISBN-13: 978-0761140764
- Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 4.6 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
This is a short book with a large number of stories that purport to show forgetful moments. The stories are all relatively short. Most are about a paragraph and almost none are more than two.
For any such books the stories would have to fulfill one or, ideally, a number of criteria for such a book to be considered a success. Unfortunately this book fulfills none of the needed required. For example, it would be nice of the stories were witty. Unfortunately just about none are. It would also be nice if they were able to provide some insight into forgetfulness and aging. Again, few are. Very importantly, the stories should at least be entertaining. Another criteria that goes unfulfilled.
Also, quite a few of the stories can be cannot be considered even relevant to the topic. It is as if they are included only as filler to be able to complete the book, in much the same manner that many music "albums" have quite a bit of fluff just around the occasional hit or two so they justify their being marketed and sold as such. For example there is a story on how a jail was opened without prison doors as an example of the responsible engineers "forgetting" to add them in. More likely there was a problem with the contractors or spec problems that prevented them from being built on time as opposed to "forgetfulness" playing any part. There is another story of a doctor in antiquity claiming he was so good at his practice that he would never die from an illness. Then he fell down a set of stairs and broke his neck. This story, like a quite a few others, do not even bear on forgetfulness in any manner. They not only fill the book with irrelevant fluff but stretch the author's credibility.
All and all, as a result, only a one star book.
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