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Great book - ebook is filled with typos
Really didn't think I would get into this book, but the writing is so superb I couldn't put it down. Unfortunately, for some reason the ebook I downloaded from B&N is fraught with typos.
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kilty
Posted March 23, 2009
Pete Hamill could easily have grown up next door to me, or been related to me, because his recollections hit home every time.
A poignant recollection, and one I was extremely comfortable slipping into since I had the good fortune to grow up in New York City during that time period. I rediscovered forgotten memories of people, places and incidents and enjoyed revisiting them from an older (and hopefully, wiser) perspective. Thank you, Mr. Hamill, for a gem of a book.
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Honest, expertly-written memoir of growing up Irish in 50s Brooklyn (and how he discovered his bliss: writing)
I enjoyed Pete Hamill's memoir as I would a gripping novel. He has gone all the way back to young boyhood, honestly and with perfected craft re-creating boyhood and young adulthood. It's not only "A Drinking Life", it's a comic book-devouring and replicating life, a working life, a life of the Irish first generation in mid 20th century New York. Hamill's early draw to art, Greenwich Village, learning (mostly auto-didactic) and hard work seem to lead inexorably to his career as a writer.
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Anonymous
Posted March 5, 2012
Entertaining only gets you so far
While this book has many interesting stories, there is no real plot and it pretty much goes nowhere
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Anonymous
Posted March 4, 2012
Awful
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Highly Recommended
A truly remarkable book. Read it through twice!
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