From the Academy Award®-winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction.
I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to be more me.
Recently, I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries. I found stories I experienced, lessons I learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. I found a reliable theme, an approach to living that gave me more satisfaction, at the time, and still: If you know how, and when, to deal with life's challenges - how to get relative with the inevitable - you can enjoy a state of success I call 'catching greenlights.'
So I took a one-way ticket to the desert and wrote this book: an album, a record, a story of my life so far. This is fifty years of my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shamefuls. Graces, truths, and beauties of brutality. Getting away withs, getting caughts, and getting wets while trying to dance between the raindrops.
Hopefully, it's medicine that tastes good, a couple of aspirin instead of the infirmary, a spaceship to Mars without needing your pilot's license, going to church without having to be born again, and laughing through the tears.
It's a love letter. To life.
It's also a guide to catching more greenlights-and to realising that the yellows and reds eventually turn green too.
Good luck.
##很有意思,audible的聲音真的像在念颱詞,太有代入感。
評分##聽得州老小夥兒講那過去的故事
評分##開頭強烈patriotic and patriarch 白美國人味 想成為爹那裏開始強烈爹味
評分##性感聲音,豐富經歷,人格魅力,對沒錯他都有,但他真的不是什麼好作傢。個人錶達是寶貴的,但他翻來覆去的greenlight讓我感到厭倦,或許聽他的自傳是一個對過於自洽的男人祛魅的過程。
評分##如果不是作者自己朗讀,這本書光看字,某些篇章挺無聊的。離shirtless on beach或者exotic adventure from wet dreams的生活畢竟太遠瞭。Born a Texan, always one. 有些片段有佳句(good from afar and far from good). Bumper Stickers太多啦。作者的生活態度就是全力以赴而且對一切都覺得took it for granted 。大概來自於他爹:to win it is better than to afford it 。McConaissance是他自己吹牛放的風哈哈哈。
評分##作者本身的朗讀給這本書增色不少。小時候的經曆/故事更加有趣些。
評分##聽的有聲書,太引人入勝瞭,仿佛看瞭好幾場電影。 他有真正的強大內心
評分##聽得州老小夥兒講那過去的故事
評分Don't half ass it, McConaughey老爹如是說。推薦Audible作者朗讀版。7個小時聽完看見的英文全部自帶德州口音。
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