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Title: The Girl Watchers Club : Lessons from the Battlefields of Life by Harry Stein ISBN: 0-06-621172-7 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 03 February, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Codgerfest
Comment: I thought I wouldn't like this book as much as I did as I've read other books by Mr Stein and I find his worldview to be a little, um, parochial. But this book is really a great read, once you get past the neo-con handwringing in the introduction. (Yes, Harry, our generation are all a bunch of whining babies who still think it's fab & gear to burn bras and draft cards...)
But Mr Stein gracefully puts his ideology aside for this book and lets Moe, Stewart, Huff and Cooper take over. And let me tell you, these guys have a lot to say - and on every subject imaginable! (You mean my generation didn't invent sex???) As they unsentimentally recount their war experiences & limn the sublime and tragic details of their lives, you come to realize not what divides the generations who succeed each other on this planet, but what binds us together: our utter human-ness and dependance on each other. It's a truly inspiring book, filled with moments large and small and has something to say to everyone, regardless of his or her generation or political persuasion
Rating: 5
Summary: A Girl Watcher
Comment: During World War II I flew Thirty-five missions, with the Eighth Air Force as a tail gunner. Was Struck by flak. Shot-down. MIA. Decorated six-times for valor, and exhibiting exceptional skill and coolness while under enemy fire. Since that time I haven't spent my time sitting around Girl Watching. Instead I've been an engineer, architect, artist, writer, and inventor. Invented an acceleration sled featured in Life Magazine titled Missile Man's Magic. Was interviewed on Art Baker's You Asked for it TV program. Wrote NASA's IUS contract. Received a DOE commendation My book The Tornado Struck at Midnight is about a WWII veteran who does a bit of Girl watching. That's what attracted me to this book. It's a good read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Harry Stein Does it Again
Comment: I've been a Harry Stein fan for 25 years. It's (unfortunately) kind of a cult thing. I read his 'Ethics' columns in Esquire for years. 'Hoopla' is on my top ten most re-read novels. I call myself a writer but 'Hoopla' is one of those amazing books you read now and again which makes you want to take up another preoccupation like, say, finger painting. Since, I've read every novel or non-fiction book he's written and was entertained, educated and/or moved each time. This being said, when recently given 'The Girl Watchers Club' by a friend, I confess the subject matter didn't raise the customary excitement. Yeah, yeah, the Greatest Generation, saved humanity in the last crystal-clear good guys-bad guys war. I know this already, I honor them and know, deep-down, that their generation evinced a whole lot more character and courage than my 60's one ever did, or, more to the point, continues to do.
A few nights later,late but wide-awake, I picked the book up expecting to be lulled to sleep soon enough. Well I wasn't, instead I got hooked and couldn't put it down until around 4 AM. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, these WWII vets had all led amazing if mostly quiet lives. Harry Stein cost me two more relatively sleepless nights as I couldn't wait to get back to the Girl Watcher's Club each evening. It is a book which highlights Stein's strengths when he's wearing his journalist hat--a truly conversational tone. The sort of conversation you have with a good, trusted friend who happens to be incredibly smart and insightful in the bargain but possessed with the sort of genuine modesty and self-doubt you hope you too possess.
In short, these men, veterans of a horror I can only try to imagine, went on to lead full lives without anger and personify everything that is great about America and ought to be conserved and honored. We're a nation of quirky, industrious, funny, generous and basically good people. Reading this fine book reminds us of this truth. It makes you want to be as life-affirming as Moe and Boyd and Harry, to emulate their positive attitudes in the face of an increasingly baffling and dangerous world.
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Title: Love Monkey : A Novel by Kyle Smith ISBN: 0060574534 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 03 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Swimming to Antarctica : Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer by Lynne Cox ISBN: 0375415076 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 13 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Frumious Bandersnatch : A Novel of the 87th Precinct by Ed McBain ISBN: 0743250346 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Booty Nomad by Scott Mebus ISBN: 1401352049 Publisher: Miramax Pub. Date: 04 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: American Sucker by David Denby ISBN: 0316192945 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: January, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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