The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead

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	• The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead David Shields Knopf, 2008 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 77 reviews view larger image
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Facts, Philosophies, Fun, and Fascination

David Shields, a gifted writer, fills these pages with both general and personal information about what it means to be a human being. Statistics from the size of the human brain at birth to the difference in growth spurts between boys and girls are included. Did you know your IQ is highest between ages 18 and 25? An exhaustive yet highly readable array of fascinating anatomical facts and social observations make this an unusual collection of essays. It's by nature a memoir, (be prepared to read about a bad case of teenage acne, for example, and a consistent interspersion of "Hoop Dreams"), but the focus reaches beyond mere life stories and experiences, making the material relatable to anyone who breathes--and reads.

In his journey from Infancy and Childhood, through Adolescence, Adulthood and Middle Age and into Old Age and Death, Shields quotes a myriad of authors/philosophers/poets, including Woody Allen, Tolstoy, Virginia Woolf, Nietzsche, Dylan Thomas, Vladimir Nabokov, and Jerry Seinfeld, just to name a few. More than anyone else, he's most strongly influenced by his 97-year-old father, to whom the book is dedicated. He ends with "Notes for Eulogy for My Father," but really, the entire book plays out this dedication.

By the way, "David Shields is a great writer and a babe to boot." Even without hair.

Michele Cozzens, Author of A Line Between Friends and The Things I Wish I'd Said.

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The thing about life it that one day you'll be dead

This book is really good, it has different sorts of segments in it. For instance: Origins, Paradise, Soon Lost, Motherhood, Dying just a Little and many more. I'm learning a lot from it.

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The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead

Full of facts, quotes & life stories, seemed to me that a book with a title like that would be a little more philosophical.

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