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GENE WEINGARTEN IS THE O. HENRY OF AMERICAN JOURNALISM Simply the best storyteller around, Weingarten describes the world as you think it is before revealing how it actually is--in narratives that are by turns hilarious, heartwarming, and provocative, but always memorable. Millions of people know the
… More »GENE WEINGARTEN IS THE O. HENRY OF AMERICAN JOURNALISM Simply the best storyteller around, Weingarten describes the world as you think it is before revealing how it actually is--in narratives that are by turns hilarious, heartwarming, and provocative, but always memorable. Millions of people know the title piece about violinist Joshua Bell, which originally began as a stunt: What would happen if you put a world-class musician outside a Washington, D.C., subway station to play for spare change? Would anyone even notice? The answer was no. Weingarten's story went viral, becoming a widely referenced lesson about life lived too quickly. Other classic stories--the one about "The Great Zucchini," a wildly popular but personally flawed children's entertainer; the search for the official "Armpit of America"; a profile of the typical American nonvoter--all of them reveal as much about their readers as they do their subjects.
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Add a QuoteOne biographically intriguing fact about Bell is that he got his first music lessons when he was a four-year-old in Bloomington, Indiana. His parents, both psychologists, decided formal training might be a good idea after they saw that their son had strung rubber bands across his dresser drawers and was replicating classical tunes by ear, plucking the strings and moving the drawers in and out to vary the pitch.
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Add a CommentI really enjoyed the writing style in this book! Some really great stories, and some really disturbing ones with topics that were hard to read about, but overall, loved this book and would recommend.
I thought that I would end up skipping around but I didn't. I enjoyed this collection of essays. There were some that I didn't like much and some that were hard to read because of their subject manner but all in all I found this a very enjoyable book.
I enjoyed most of these articles. Weingarten is a very lucid writer, and much of the time I was willing to follow where he wanted to take me. There were a few pieces that I thought were too long, or that didn't interest me very much, and one (about a small town in Alaska) that I didn't finish because it was too distressing and depressing. My favorites were the articles about the ghost-writer for the Hardy Boys mysteries, Bill Clinton's father, Weingarten's father and daughter, and about those who live with the terrorism in Jerusalem.