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Title: Found : The Best Lost, Tossed, and Forgotten Items from Around the World by Davy Rothbart ISBN: 0-7432-5114-8 Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: 04 May, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.82 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Live it. Love it.
Comment: Davy Rothbart has created a wonderful thing with "Found." It's not just a magazine. It's a philosophy. His magazine and this equally amazing book is about seeing the beauty behind all things. Each of the notes and photographs have a story behind them. You resurrect the note when you pick it up off the sidewalk. You find value in a forgotten photo. One of my favorite notes is a conversation of a couple of teenage girls -- passing notes in class and fighting over a borrowed pen. The language is angry, but you can't tell how serious they are. But - it seems from the ending that some feelings have been hurt. The more aggressive of the two has gone too far when she taunts the other about having sex on a dryer and having to go to summer school. A community has formed around "Found" - hundreds of people who look twice at a scrap of paper on the sidewalk. Some of these treasures will make you cry, some will make you laugh. This colletion is enriching and fascinating.
Rating: 5
Summary: Not "found" but truly reborn...
Comment: I laughed and cried my way through this book, couldn't put it down. It mixes the ludicrous, the joyful and the heartbreaking, offering a clear view into human nature. I see myself and those around me on every page, but with a loving heart fostered by Davy's sense of humor. I find myself wanting to know these people, actually seeing I DO know them, for they are me!
What I love most is that Davy had the wisdom to take these scraps we all see as trash and recognize them as rich compost, ready to be reborn into a fascinating source of wisdom, to delight us, surprise us, and to foster our ability to laugh at ourselves and our world. They show us at our best, worst and most vulnerable, show all our loves and fears. The book is a true teacher of compassion!
While Davy says there's no special order, the book fit together perfectly for me, leading me from one insight to another, one laugh to another. The layout that looks like a collection of scraps is perfect for the contents.
Rating: 5
Summary: What have you found?
Comment: It reminds me a lot of cleaning off my desk (It's been said that my desk is messy). The things I find. Some of which I had been looking for for months, some of which I don't recognize at all.
This is a collection of things (mostly paper) that got found somewhere. Sometimes it's a shopping list. Sometimes it's a nasty note found on a windshield. Once it was a play, four pages long, except that they didn't find Page 3. Or a note, "After leaving the building, please lock this door. It will prevent unauthorized people from entering the building and defecating in the washing machines." From that you can make up any kind of story you want.
One time I got a letter. It was well reasoned and talked about some business related subject that I've forgotten. Only thing, it was written in crayon. After the signature was written, "Please excuse the crayon, they won't let us have anything sharp."
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Title: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris ISBN: 0316143464 Publisher: Little, Brown Pub. Date: 01 June, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Mrs. Kimble : A Novel by Jennifer Haigh ISBN: 0060509406 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Home Cheap Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to Great Decorating by Budget Living ISBN: 0399529683 Publisher: Perigee Books Pub. Date: 04 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Vinyl Junkies : Adventures in Record Collecting by Brett Milano ISBN: 0312304277 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Pub. Date: 10 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: mental_floss Presents Condensed Knowledge: A Deliciously Irreverent Guide to Feeling Smart Again by Will Pearson, Mangesh Hattikudur, Elizabeth Hunt ISBN: 0060568062 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 27 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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