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Chargement... Death Be Not Proud (Perennial Classics) (original 1949; édition 1998)par John J. Gunther (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreDeath Be Not Proud par John Gunther (1949)
![]() Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. ![]() ![]() Gut-heartwrenchingly moving. I tried reading this years ago but couldn't get into the way Gunther told the story––too erudite for me at the time. I guess I've matured because I rolled through this in one day. I couldn't put it down. I was intrigued by the 1940s dialogue and history and medicine capability at that time, but I was thoroughly enchanted with Johnny and his heroic quest just to live. The reminder of how precious life is sometimes can sound so trite, but put forth in this memoir of a 17-year-old who had the zen of life to end each day with "What a great day, Mom"––even if his brain had just been opened up again for drainage––brought me to my knees. When I'm having a bad day, I will think of this young, brave man and try to follow his example every day of my life. This book is one of those conceits where someone died, so someone close to the deceased decided that having some heart-wrenching emotional experience based on that and the close connection to the person had two effects: 1. It made the subject of the tale (the deceased person) more special than millions of other people who've died of the same tragic thing. 2. It made the survivor into a first-rate author. In this case, the experience had neither of these effects, so far as I could tell. The major effects it did have from what I've seen, however, are also two in number: 1. It led to this book being inflicted on a bunch of kids in middle school, much to the detriment of their potential love of learning. 2. It gave me the catalyst needed to learn to stop reading a book that sucks. Before that, I always read a book to the end, no matter how bad it was. Having quit reading a book assigned in school about halfway through, just because it was so awful, you might think it negatively affected my grade. The thing was so ploddingly predictable, though, that I just BSed my way through the quizzes and essay question tests on the book and got an A on all relevant class materials. I don't recommend it. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Biography & Autobiography.
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HTML: "If courage is the antidote to pain and grief, the disease and the cure are both in this book. . . . A story of great unselfishness and great heroism." â??New York Times Johnny Gunther was only seventeen years old when he died of a brain tumor. During the months of his illness, everyone near him was unforgettably impressed by his level-headed courage, his wit and quiet friendliness, and, above all, his unfaltering patience through times of despair. This deeply moving book is a father's memoir of a brave, intelligent, and spirited boy. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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