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Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
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David Shields
jeffreyragsdale2222
, February 22, 2010
Reality Hunger is an exhilarating read. It could possibly be the best book I’ve ever read. Certainly it’s the most influential to my own work. Shields explodes genre—killing everything in his path like some mad stand-up comic pulling out an AK-47 on stage. It’s as if Shields tore up the written word—all forms of the written word—then set down a new broader map of discovery, especially self-discovery. What is truth? This book! I recommend it to anybody who breathes.
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Thing about Life Is That One Day Youll Be Dead
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David Shields
jeffreyragsdale2222
, January 15, 2008
The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead is not only a brilliant achievement, but it's also unbelievably funny. Every page is laugh-out-loud. How anyone can talk about life and death, to this degree, and be funny is beyond me. In 99% of the memoirs we read we can feel the writer tweaking his/her own story so that we find them likeable. David Shields sheds all that and gives us the real David Shields. He’s a person living on the page. You feel him instantly. He's not trying to win us over. He's showing us what it means to be human. He gives us his triumphs and his failures. He gives us his family’s difficulties and their achievements. Why should everyone read this book? Simply because Shields has tapped into mortality (the beauty and the beast of it) deeper than any previous writer. He ingeniously builds a human body (taking us from the cradle, through the Kafka-like strangeness of puberty, and finally to the golden years) using himself, his family, and, in particular, his 97-year-old father who defies the laws of physics. Shields’ father is a rockstar! Shields pulls no punches talking about his family. This is life right before your eyes. I just gave this book to a friend and said why don't they teach us about life early on? You’re gonna grow up, then die. Why hide from it? Face it, embrace it, as Shields does in this lovely book. I highly recommend this book to anyone who's even slightly human. What do great works of art do? They change the way we view the world. This book DOES just that.
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