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Title: All in Good Time : A Memoir by JONATHAN SCHWARTZ ISBN: 0-375-50480-X Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 02 March, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.88 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Surprising revelations
Comment: I have listened to Jonathan Schwartz since soon after he began on WNEW-AM. Sunday mornings were not complete without Jonathan's voice, his music and his stories. I loved the book. I know it's a cliche but I couldn't put it down. I can't agree with the reviewer who said you didn't have to know Jonathan to enjoy his story. It is all the more poignant to read of his lonely childhood when you know the man he became and I'm glad I didn't know the tragic details of his life so I could just enjoy his radio persona. I just assumed he had sprung full-grown into the music guru, wise and witty, that I heard on the air every Sunday. It was delicious fun to hear about his relationship/non-relationship with Sinatra. Read this book...you will love it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Unique Memoir
Comment: This is a superbly written and extrememly unique memoir. The read is never quite sure if it is a fiction or non fiction due to the style of writing. I like that. I can easily see why this book: "All In Good Time" is climbing the charts. I am also pleased that I had the chance to read this powerful book!! "All In Good Time reads similar to that of "My Fractured Life", with pieces of the sadness,courage and determination found in "Nightmares Echo"...It also has poignant lessons learned like that of "Running With Scissors". All are different and unique and yet, Memoirs with power.
Rating: 5
Summary: An American original
Comment: Jonathan Scwartz's memoir reads like a novel, not surprising as he has put in much effort writing fiction (described in the book). The story is so American. We are taken through Hollywood of the 30s and 40s; the musical environment of New York in the 40s and 50s; the idyllic summer in Connecticut; the unsettling whir of the 60's; and into the 70s, featuring the Betty Ford clinic, a sad symbol of that decade. Near the end, the death of his famous father and the birth of his own children, finally, in the 80s. The book ends with his arrival on FM, where he broadcasts live 8 hours a weekend on WNYC 93.9.
The is much richness along the way. And it's interesting to me what he chose to leave out, for example his relationship with Richard Rodgers. The Red Sox, his team, are not discussed as much as you'd might expect (for those interested in this aspect of his quirky life, I recommend his "A Day of Light and Shadows"). He does however describe his friendship with Ned Martin, the Red Sox radio broadcaster in the 1960s -- I particularly liked that part as I spent many a night listening to Martin as a child in Massachusetts.
Finally, there is sadness in the book, along with the joy, but no self pity. And humor shines through regardless.
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Title: A Day of Light and Shadows: One Die-Hard Red Sox Fan and His Game of a Lifetime: The Boston-New York Playoff, 1978 by Schwartz Jonathan ISBN: 1592280633 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title:Dancing in the Dark ASIN: B00014X8E0 Publisher: Telarc Pub. Date: 10 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $17.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $13.49 |
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Title: Everything Was Possible: The Birth of the Musical "Follies" by Ted Chapin ISBN: 0375413286 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Howling at the Moon : The Odyssey of a Monstrous Music Mogul in an Age of Excess by WALTER YETNIKOFF, DAVID RITZ ISBN: 0767915364 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 02 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Down and Dirty Pictures : Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film by Peter Biskind ISBN: 068486259X Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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