The Meaning of Life
by Bradley Trevor Greive
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Author: Bradley Trevor GreiveEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-03-01
ISBN: 0740723367
Number of pages: 144
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
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- ISBN13: 9780740723360
- Condition: New
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Book Review: Not your average gift book!
Summary: 5 Stars
We all have those cast-off generic "gift books" that lay around in some unused corner of our dwelling. You know, the books with children's letters to the tooth fairy, or little flowery poems about mothers. These books are hastily bought up from Hallmark stores and Walgreens each generic holiday and tossed in a gift bag with some half-rate chocolates and a crumy 99 cent card in our last-dash effort to conjure up a last-minute gift. These are usually obligatory gifts that we feel we have to give, even though we may really love and care about the recipient and feel like a jerk because we can't think of something else, at the last minute, to gift them with on our way to Aunt Helga's family reunion, late as usual. Two days later, your gift book finds its self laying with other passed-on rejects at the inventory check-in counter of your local used bookstore while the clerk groans to see yet another gifty bound volume of mushy valentines prose. Being continuously re-gifted is the career of these books until some kind soul mercifully chucks them to the trash heap with a mighty swing of disgusted zeal.
I used to be there. I was on both ends, a shameful purchaser of these thankless books, and also a silently groaning recipient of the book world's version of fruit cake. Then one day upon the tank of my toilet, I find this green little hardback, The Meaning of Life, laying unassumingly on the barren porcelain turf. Knowing my mother must have left it hoping I would take a moment from my workaholic life to indulge in a book, I did just that. Is it awfully cheesy to say that this little book touched me most profoundly?
I sat, reading page by page, and simply breathed in the peace and stillness of just a few moments of my otherwise rigorous day. The simple words in uncluttered typeset reached my heart and soul as profoundly soothing. Roll your eyes if you want, but I've read this book uncountable times since, in both times of sorrow and joy, and it has continued to have the same result on me. Of course, the humor of these books also deserves to have a comment. Both the text and the unique photos on each page spread, will make even the most hardened grump crack a grin.
A few years later and it still rests on the same spot my knowing mother left it, however, now it lives in a simple basket joined with Bradley Trevor Greive's other witty, heartfelt volumes, each a work in its own.
Do yourself a favor...break the fruit-cake-gift-book syndrome and gift your love one with this true jewel of a treasure. Aunt Helga will thank you.
Summary of The Meaning of Life
It's an age-old question that has stumped the great minds of history: What is the meaning of life? In his hilarious and uplifting style, best-selling author Bradley Trevor Greive finally provides the answer: Figure out what you love and do it.Illustrated with playful photographs of animals, BTG's insightful prose again hits his target straight on. He muses about why we're here and our greater purpose in the grand scheme of things. His informal style provides a refreshing counterpoint to what has always been one of life's big debates. For example, when it comes to discovering your passion, BTG writes, "First, no one else will tell you about it--it's just like walking around all day with a sign on your back that says KICK ME".
The Meaning of Life is a witty, thought-provoking book that makes an ideal gift for anyone who's seeking their true purpose-and wants to laugh along the way.
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