For many people, Matthew McConaughey is one of their favorites as an actor. When I looked at his filmography I recognized some of his movies that I have enjoyed. They include We are Marshall, A Time to Kill, Amistad, Contact, U-571, The Lincoln Lawyer, Dallas Buyers Club, Mud, and Interstellar.
Yet here is so much more to him than his movies. His new book Greenlights is amazing. And the audiobook is narrated by him personally.
“Matthew McConaughey is a talented actor, a fine writer, but a total genius at living. He attacks life with an exhilarating ferocity. This is a wildly unexpected and delightful book you can’t just read, you have to experience.”
–Lawrence Wright, author of The End of October
“A Renaissance man on the big screen, McConaughey shows he is the same on the page. Mystical and spiritual but mostly just wonderful, Greenlights is an inspired memoir that celebrates the idea that it’s the journey rather than the destination that will fulfill us.” (Michael Connelly, author of Fair Warning)
Greenlights
I had heard of this book but had not bought it yet. Then recently I restarted my membership with Audible and had enjoyed listening to some classical novels. Then I saw that Greenlights was also available - a best seller - and is narrated by Matthew. Being an autobiography, after reading this description in Audible, I decided to use my one credit to get the audio book. I finished listening to the book as it was six hours or so and it was so interesting with his life's experiences, humorous, and engaging on many levels. There is inspiration about life here. Warning - after reading the description below it will be hard not to want to listen to his story. Learn more >
from Amazon - written by Matthew McConaughey
Number one New York Times best seller • Over one million copies sold!
"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.
“Unflinchingly honest and remarkably candid, Matthew McConaughey’s book invites us to grapple with the lessons of his life as he did - and to see that the point was never to win, but to understand.” (Mark Manson, author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck)
I’ve been in this life for 50 years, been trying to work out its riddle for 42, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last 35. 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 50 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 realizing that the yellows and reds eventually turn green, too. Good luck."
Critic Reviews
“McConaughey is a talented actor and a fine writer, but a total genius at living. He attacks life with an exhilarating ferocity. This is a wildly unexpected and delightful book you can’t just read, you have to experience.” (Lawrence Wright, author of The End of October)
“It shouldn’t surprise you that this book is good, but it will surprise you just how good it is.... Wise and entertaining, this is an inspiring memoir and how-to from one of the great outlaw philosophers and artists of our time.” (Ryan Holiday, author of The Daily Stoic)
“A Renaissance man on the big screen,
McConaughey shows he is the same on the page. Mystical and spiritual but
mostly just wonderful, Greenlights is an inspired memoir that
celebrates the idea that it’s the journey rather than the destination
that will fulfill us.” (Michael Connelly, author of Fair Warning)
Here's the link to Audible - you will get a free credit to own it in a 30 day free trial. I suggest listening to the free sample - you will hear him describe the book in his own voice. Enjoy.
https://www.audible.com/pd/Greenlights-Audiobook/0593294181
No comments:
Post a Comment
Comments are welcome but not spam