Mike Carroll

The great book about a great contemporary American writer

Revisado: 10-05-23

I love, love, love, love this biography! I’ve loved Larry McMurtry after since seeing The Last Picture Show when it first came out and then reading his book. And later seeing and reading Texasville and Duane’s Depressed and the final two slim Duane novels. I’ve longed to take a road trip to Archer City to see Thalia for myself, eat at the Dairy Queen and feel the place and it’s one blinking red stop light.
I will listen to this book again and again. Next time perhaps when I’m driving there.
This book could not have been better, written or better read aloud.
A GEM!!!!!
I only regret that I cannot be writing this review on a Hermes, 3000 manual typewriter.

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Outstanding audiobook and wonderfully read.

Revisado: 06-15-23

Ever since my second year in high school in 1971 when I took a photography class, which was only offered for two years, and the teacher, Don Love, presented some slideshows of great photographers, one of them being Don McCullin and his photographs from Cyprus and Vietnam, and other conflicts, I have had a lifelong fascination with his life and career. Indeed, that class, and that particular slideshow on Don, McCullin pushed me on to have a career in photo journalism in television news.
I’ve collected several of his books, which, until Amazon, were very difficult to find in bookstores, and a hunger to know more about him, his life, how he worked. I am glad that he is still here.
This book is not only well told, but beautifully told. And very much at the same time is completely bearing of his soul and his regrets. Which, all of us acquire over a lifetime, oh we are fortunate enough to have some thing of a long lifetime.
I do sincerely hope that people will read this and afterwards appreciate what a commitment, obsession, and passion, for covering the more troubling stories on this planet, takes on a life and personal and professional commitments, that can only leave you with a very cracked and broken road by the end of it.
Time after time again, Sir Don McCullin has displayed his bravery, and his wisdom, under fire and pressure, personal and professional, in the face of true demons. I greatly appreciate his frankness and this is a book that I shall read and listen to again and again and again. Thank you, Sir Don McCullin.

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