![]() Gees! Don’t encourage him!īlue collar prayers – `I need` / White collar prayers – `I want`. ARGH! Unfortunately, I almost invariably enjoyed them. He punctuates his memoir with memorable stories or experiences that taught him little pearls of wisdom which he notes as: Now McConaughey turns Texas Baptist preacher and mounts his pulpit. (He’s already done Europe by motorcycle with two of his buddies.) And he does come back with some hard truths. In the quest of second and third dreams, he travels Africa and South America. Would that we could all disappear for months at a time to seek the truth of life-or would I? Nah. So now MM turns into Monk McConaughey as he pushes off to seek the truth of life. Oh, he handles it with booze and women alright, pranks, and then comes his first (***) dream. ![]() And then his intro to the Hollywood scene-perhaps it all comes off too easy-and that throws him. Strictly audiobook, strictly McConaughey and his quiet intimate voice but as he gets into his storytelling, becomes animated with nostalgic memories. McConaughey begins his book with an introduction to his early life in lower middle class east Texas. The way they live is so beyond my imagination, I can’t even feign interest. ![]() And I’m not usually one to follow Hollywood types. So why then, when I saw his audiobook come up on my wonderful library selections did I hit “request?” You’ve got me. The problem is that he comes off egotistical, flaunting it (like most Hollywood women?). I won’t deny that I don’t find him attractive. And if I can’t switch channels fast enough to NOT see another of his Lincoln TV commercials, it’ll be too soon. Ugh! I’ve never been a fan of Matthew McConaughey. “…outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction.” My Review: It’s also a guide to catching more greenlights – and to realizing that the yellows and reds eventually turn green, too. Hopefully, it’s medicine that tastes good, a couple of aspirin instead of the infirmary, a spaceship to Mars without needing your pilot’s license, going to church without having to be born again, and laughing through the tears. Getting away withs, getting caughts, and getting wets while trying to dance between the raindrops. Graces, truths, and beauties of brutality. This is 50 years of my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shamefuls. So I took a one-way ticket to the desert and wrote this book: an album, a record, a story of my life so far. I found a reliable theme, an approach to living that gave me more satisfaction, at the time, and still: If you know how, and when, to deal with life’s challenges – how to get relative with the inevitable – you can enjoy a state of success I call “catching greenlights”. I found stories I experienced, lessons I learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. Recently, I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. Number one New York Times best seller Over one million copies sold!įrom the Academy Award-winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, I’ve been in this life for 50 years, been trying to work out its riddle for 42, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last 35. Most of the times it’s not stolen, it’s right where you left it.
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