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Selected from It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It
Robert Fulghum's style of writing is unique - simple yet deep and provocative.

This book (like his other books!! ) has the power to touch your life with the wonder of simple ideas. It gives the reader hope that life isn't all bad and good things can happen to ordinary people too.The best part is his ability to send across the message without actually preaching!!

Excellent reading ....and a Book collector's delight! ... Read more

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Wonderful book
This little book is full of wisdom and is written for easy reading. A joy to have in my library and refer to often. I highly recommend it! The author comments on life through simple experiences he's had and thoughts on each. It's full of short little stories that everyone can relate to. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Lee Fulghum (born June 4, 1937) is an American author, primarily of short essays. He has worked as a Unitarian Universalist minister (at the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship in Bellingham, Washington from 1960-64, and the Edmonds Unitarian Universalist Church in Edmonds, Washington amongst other communities well into the 1980s). During this same period he taught drawing, painting, and philosophy at the Lakeside School in Seattle. Fulghum is an accomplished painter and sculptor. He sings, and plays the guitar and mando-cello. He was a founding member of the authors' collective rock-and-roll band, "Rock Bottom Remainders". ... Read more

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Some observations From Both Sides Of The Refrigerator Door.by Robert Fulghum ... Read more

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A compilation of four best sellers, this volume contains the following: Remember by Barbara Taylor Bradford, Guardian Angel by Sara Paretsky, Kiss by Ed McBain and Uh-Uh by Robert Fulghum. ... Read more

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This digital document, covering the life and work of Robert (L.) Fulghum, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 2492 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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Here is the beloved former minister's new collection of real-life love stories that are so unusual, so unlikely and so inspiring that you'll find yourself brushing away tears! ... Read more

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The best book I have ever read.
The book, "True Love", is my favorite book of all time. I draw wisdom from every story in the book. All relate to a point that can be universaly defined in every life. Simple words that describe the bearings of the heart from every direction. An answer to the questions of longing and hollowing out of the puzzles that are the emotions that we call love. If it were a song, it woud be "The Scientist" by Coldplay. ... Read more

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A crazy chronicle, in words and mostly embarrassing pictures, describes a road trip with fifteen of America's most popular writers, who leave their jobs to hit the road--on a bus--as a performing rock and roll band. 75,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo. ... Read more

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Good for a few chuckles
What do you get when you take a bunch of authors, some with very little or no musical talent, and put them together in a band? Well, you get the Rock Bottom Remainders. While the band won't make you forget any of the great bands in rock 'n roll history anytime soon, they not only have fun playing, the experience has helped each of them grow in different ways.

Each chapter is written by a different member of their 1993 East Coast Tour (aka the Three Chords and an Attitude Tour) and provides lots of insight into life on a tour bus, the trials and tribulations of actually learning how to play the guitar, and how to do a transverse colon massage. There are lots of great pictures by Tabitha King (wife of Stephen King), and some very humorous writing by such notables as Stephen King, Dave Barry and Amy Tan. The book is a pretty quick read and will definitely give you a few chuckles.

Sitting with the cool kids on the bus
For the 1992 American Booksellers Association (ABA) in Anaheim, Kathi Kamen Goldmark, a San Francisco rock musician who still held a day job--escorting out of town authors to readings and other events--had an idea.What if she could pull together a group of the well-known authors she'd met and transform them into a rock group for some entertainment, with proceeds benefitting a literacy campaign? By the time she finished, she had Ridley Pearson on bass, Dave Barry and Stephen King on guitar, Barbara Kingsolver on keyboards, the Remainderettes--Amy Tan, journalist Tad Bartimus and Goldmark, and the Critics Chorus--variously consisting of Roy Blount, Jr., Dave Marsh, and Greil Marcus.Michael Dorris, Robert Fulghum and Matt Groening were in the mix, too. Legendary rocker Al Kooper tried to direct them. Someone encouraged Don Henley to review them (thumbs down, way down) and the show was caught on video, which led to a hullabaloo with a music publisher.It took a lot out of the very busy schedules of people who were not, with exception of part of really musicians.So what did these mostly 35 - 50-something writers do once it was over?

They decided to go on a benefit tour from Boston to Miami, just like a real rock band, on a bus, the next spring."Mid-Life Confidential" is a collection of the participants' individual accounts of what really happened. The effect of reading this book is like walking into a loud messy party after everyone else got there.At first references to things that happened in Anaheim don't exactly make sense, but through the aggregation of accounts, the cloud of confusion lifts on, for instance, what the publisher's issue was and how Dave Barry, um, handled it, as well as what Don Henley wrote (thumbs way down).All of these hugely successful writers talk about growing up as the uncool kid for whom this should never have been in the cards and how it was a transformative experience as they bumble through their version of the rock and roll life.There are many laugh out loud passages.There are also some poignant moments--Dorris's son is accidentally killed.Marsh's beloved stepdaughter dies after a valiant struggle against cancer.Bartimus is diagnosed with Lupus and her mother is in the intensive care unit.Kingsolver's first marriage went, as she says, from the ER to the autopsy table.These people were not acquainted when they came together; by the end of the tour they were a healing support group.

It is high fun seeing some of our nation's most successful writers in their mid-life infancy, not to mention the origins of a band that's still playing.This is something of a timepiece: everyone communicates by the latest technology of 1992, the fax machine.No one huddles with a cell phone, no one taps on a laptop.Part "The Commitments," part "This is Spinal Tap" and a dash of "The Breakfast Club," it's about finally getting to hang out with the cool kids on the bus.

Living the dream...sort of
While the main reason I bought this book was to add to my Stephen King colection, I enjoyed the other essays about the experence.It's well written and entertaining and there were suprising stories of how the experence changed the various authors lives.

Hilarious good fun!
Although I vaguely noted the news stories when this band of idiots went on the road in 1993, I only ran across this book by chance three days ago. I read it in less than two. Although the whole idea of authors forming a rock band and doing a tour sounds pretty stupid and self-indulgent, the results were not only good for them, but surprisingly moving and inspiring foranyone who might read this book.I'm sure I enjoyed it no less than thetwo previous reviewers, but I'm a tough grader, so I gave it fourstars.

I always knew Stephen King and Dave Barry were regular guys Iwould just love to meet and have a beer with, but what a shock to find outabout the lovely, funny, human sides of Amy Tan, Barbara Kingsolver, AlKooper (the musical director of this motley crew), Dave Marsh (rock criticand editor) and others!

I laughed 'til I cried over Barry's chapter.Everyone has his or her funny moments, but the chapters by Tan, Kingsolver,and Marsh are refreshingly touching and vulnerable, too.

Bestquotes:

--King calls himself "a kind of Norman Rockwell version ofFreddy Krueger"

--Kooper: "The mere fact that you're readingthis right now is a testimony to the selfishness of twenty-three boredpeople."

--Roy Blount, Jr.: being on stage in a rock and roll bandis "like being inside a forest fire that you're helping, howevermodestly, to spread"

--music critic Joel Selvin: "Most peopleseem to think critics are as useful as tits on a priest."

--Barry:"Our groupie budget is kinda low, so we're not getting top quality --at times, they get a little angry at us and throw their walkers at us andstuff like that."

--Barry again: "...you can imagine howexcited I was when I discovered Buddy Holly. Here was a guy who had glassesat least as flagrant as mine; a guy who did NOT look like a teenheartthrob, but more like the president of the Audiovisual Club, the kidwho always ran the projector for educational films with titles like _TheStory of Meat_."

--Tabitha King: "Greil Marcus informed meSoutherners think the (...) they call coffee iscoffee."

--Kingsolver: "...we all knew no amount of rehearsalcould ever make us into a first-rate, or even cut-rate, or irate, orreprobate, rock and roll band."

There are tons of photos, black andwhite AND color (the ones of Tan in her black leather, chains, and whip for"These Boots Are Made For Walkin'" and of Marsh in a white promdress, spattered with ketchup and armed with a plastic knife to attackStephen King during his showstopping rendition of "Teen Angel"are priceless), all shot by Tabitha King.

The book ends on a weak note:Ms. King is neither the writer nor the humorist that the others are, andMichael Dorris's fable-like reverie just kind of makes you go"huh?"

I'm kicking myself repeatedly for not buying the RockBottom Remainders video I saw in a cheapo rack at a Fred Meyer supermarketin Coos Bay, Oregon some years ago....

An amusing, surprising account of writers as rockers.
When Stephen King, Dave Barry, Amy Tan, Barbara Kingsolver, Dave Marsh and other famous authors formed an ad hoc rock band for a booksellers' convention, everyone--including them--saw it as a one-time lark.Their motto: "We play music as well as Metallica writes novels."But energized by the experience, and the fantasies and camaraderie it sparked, they decided to mount an East-Coast tour as The Rock-Bottom Remainders.In this book, each writer/musician? relates a chapter of the adventure from his or her own perspective.A lot of it is hilarious: most of Dave Barry's and Roy Blount, Jr.'s, contributions, for instance, as well as--surprise--much of Amy Tan's.But the book is also reflective, revealing, and at times surprisingly moving.This is a book for fans of any of the authors represented, for those curious about intersections of American pop culture, and for anyone who has ever dreamed of breaking out of the mold ... Read more