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Title: Old Songs in a New Cafe by Robert James Waller ISBN: 0-446-51798-4 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 12 April, 1994 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.56 (9 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: What an amazing biography!
Comment: Reads a tremendous lot like Robert Fulghum, but beyond that...
Through essays, the presumably all true story of a man who lived as if he was born with a detailed, incredibly accurate set of instructions and near-Godlike wisdom. Learns pool and billiards as an eleven-year-old kid and beats the town champ. Takes up basketball, making his high school team as a freshman and becoming a good major-school college player. Starts a loving marriage in college that remains super-strong over 25 years later. Plays guitar, and with his small combo is chosen for national TV appearances with Charles Kuralt and Robert Kennedy. Despite all his independent thought, establishes a solid - actually distinguished - career in academia. And, in the decade after this book, writes a novel that may have sold more copies - and tickets to its subsequent movie - than ANY in the 1990's!
And guess what? NONE of this - not even a SCRAP of it, according to the essays - ever misled him or cost him anything! He didn't drop out of school to hustle pool, ignore academics to over-concentrate on basketball, discover his wife who he chose at age 22 didn't fit his ever-evolving life at age 50, go for a low-paying full-time music career, QUIT music altogether and lose the fun of playing recreationally, or constrict his thinking by getting it in line with the PC work setting of a university.
Not only did he seem to be always doing the exact right thing at the right time, he avoided every trap there was.
Amazing! Have never seen a life so comprehensively superb since Jennifer Beals' in Flashdance, and she was FICTIONAL!
So, Robert James, we have two ways to interpret you. You can be one of the most premier renaissance men of our time, or an archly annoying "perfect" person akin to Martha Stewart. So, my challenge to you is - write an essay, telling us in detail, how in at least one instance YOU, not circumstances, luck or the people around you - have FAILED. Have you done it? Can you do it?
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautiful, Absolutely Beautiful
Comment: I was 15 years old when I was first introduced to this book and author. The essay "Slow Waltz for Georgia Ann" was the most touching story iv ever hurd. It was love, and reckless, and compation, and solitude all wrapped up into one. Every time I need something to make me smile I read this story. I have incouraged every one I have met, who also loves to read, to read this book. The cat, his daughter, the birds and the romance tie it all together to make this book, in my opinion, the greatest ever writen. If you were to pass this up without at least reading once you are a fool. I am 20 now and the original paperback that was givin to me 5 years ago is still laying on my nightstand next my bed.
Rating: 5
Summary: wonderful
Comment: I have read this book several times, love to take it on vacation. These stories are wonderful, heartfelt. A nice reminder of my own childhood growing up in Indiana. We have dusty roads, and favorite pets, and enjoy the quite life here too. It's beautifully written by a wonderful Author. Sure wish he would write more!
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Title: Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend by Robert James Waller ISBN: 0446516538 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 04 November, 1993 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Just Beyond the Firelight by Robert James Waller ISBN: 0813801672 Publisher: Iowa State Univ Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: February, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Border Music by Robert James Waller ISBN: 0446602736 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1996 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: One Good Road Is Enough: Essays by Robert James Waller by Robert James Waller ISBN: 081381880X Publisher: Iowa State Univ Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: November, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Puerto Vallarta Squeeze by Robert James Waller ISBN: 0446603600 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1996 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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