Glenn Ainsworth

Echoes Paul Simon’s critique of his worst song.

Reviewed: 12-15-23

Community is an illusive concept for many of modern working slobs who don’t need any b.s. from their neighbors at the end of a long working day. This author skillfully articulates why community is a broader concept, how it affects one who aims their life to contribute to it, and how as Simon says, it’s not wise to be a rock…we were not meant to live as an island. This is a challenging work, easy to mis- understand than not- put it in low gear and listen.

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If Mark Twain were gay now- he’d be Sedaris

Reviewed: 11-05-23

I didn’t dislike anything in this book because even if I disagreed with some nuance of his interpretation, his candor comes through, and a universally potential quality: equanimity. If he could lie about himself, he wouldn’t be himself which is the main reason he’s kind of unique as a story teller, which he really was born to be.

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Greek to some, Gold to others

Reviewed: 10-12-23

Ray Bradbury will blow your socks off with his shher gusto, if not the depth and breadth of his literary knowledge. That is, if you are open to being impassioned… which is what many of us modern victims of mindless banality have to realize— we’re not. We want distractions, not a diagram of how to be more fully alive. Guys a one in a billion hoot and world asset.

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I prefer version of me after reading than before

Reviewed: 10-06-23

If a human can relate so intimately the whole range of thoughts, emotions, and the interplay thereof in such a way that you forget they are inventions…. and leave you wondering not only how they can convey it so honestly, insightfully and after being compelled to finish you find a small shift in yourself for the better… it’s a gift.

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Authenticity Creatively Good Writing

Reviewed: 08-13-23

Said it all above but the devil’s in the details, I just like spending time with this author’s view.

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Touches the challenges of human condition

Reviewed: 06-23-23

Having tried on hippidom growing up in the afterwash of it’s storied past I can relate a lot. This story is honest, exciting, funny, insightful, tedious at times but mostly forthright/honest. It’s also a great look through the b.s. about the sixties and how it was for lotsa people going through it…balances out Letters Home from Viet Nam…

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You Never Step into the Same River Twice

Reviewed: 03-14-23

I read stories long ago from grade school to college…and they all stuck with-genius does that but now after Zen in Writing and this compilation I know more about him, myself, writing in general, humanity, the twentieth century…I am not exactly the same man i was only a week or two ago- that’s Bradbury.

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After changes…we are more or less the same-PS

Reviewed: 01-15-23

Fifteen years after writing an essay in Spanish Lit on this book, I accidentally picked it on Audible as I liked the title but forgot I’d read it—I’m glad. It’s a trip to Spain and through time that comments on human nature without becoming bogged down in too far to our faults, but using human desires as a guidepost to an adventurous tale executed with a sense of humor and seasoned with a little irony.

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This guy’s at least half crazy…

Reviewed: 12-20-22

I’m glad this guy’s finally married for good I hope, so he doesn’t meet a tragic demise, but maybe I’m just jealous of his curiosity, tenacity, zeal for first hand experience and drive to create and execute creative journey, skillfully related with dry wit, a sprinkle of hysterical/historical context, and real time feel and frankness. Helluva fella and author.

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I didn’t know how bereft I was…

Reviewed: 12-13-22

At first I wasn’t sure, about the author or the voice reading….but it wasn’t long before they both fit the bill. Not many authors possess an inherent way of being that is unfakeably original and also worthy of upping your listening level, or maybe deepening it to meet a challenge- just finished another and i am wanting still more…be careful. Melville was not an appropriated author in his time, Moon is more so but I would submit not enough for the gifts given, especially in the times we find ourselves living.

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