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Overview
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An upcoming book to be published by Penguin Random House.
- Format: Hardcover
- Author: McConaughey, Matthew
- ISBN: 9780593139134
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 8.50 x 1.00
- Number Of Pages: 304
- Publication Year: 2020
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Mathew McConoughey
Michele B. - 3 years 4 months agoI think it's a great book, sent to my son to read, he enjoyed it. Will read again.
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"If a place and a people move me, I’ll write them a love letter.” Greenlights is a love letter to life.
Jennifer E. - 5 years 6 months agoTrue confession: I picked up Matthew McConaughey’s Greenlights for three reasons: friendship (a friend recommended it), love (who didn’t swoon over The Wedding Planner?) and assignment (it was a book club selection). I thought it would be the typical celebrity autobiography. I had no idea it would serve as a travelogue and reaffirmation of my perpetual case of wanderlust. “The road less traveled may not be...the road with the least traffic. It may be the road that we, personally, have traveled less.” Travel served as a rite of passage/initiation when McConaughey participated as a foreign exchange student to Australia. Likewise, travel served as his portal to fame and success when he spent six weeks motorcycle riding through Europe with “his boys” from Dazed and Confused. Travel served as therapy from that sudden fame and success and notoriety when he fulfilled his “wet dream” of backpacking the Amazon River and Machu Picchu and the Niger River and Mali, Africa, my own wanderlust wet dreams. “Now naked and stripped down to nothing, I was only a child of God, and nothing more.” Travel became his compass as he bought a van and upgraded to a trailer to row the highways of forty-eight of the United States. As I prepare to teach in Tunisia this summer, McConaughey’s poem “Tribes” resonated with me. “I have seen many tribes in the deserts of Northern Africa who, with nine children and no electricity, had more joy, love, honor, and laughter than the majority of the most materially rich people I’ve ever met...Travel and humanity have been my greatest educators. They have helped me understand the common denominator of mankind. Values. Engage with yourself then engage with the world. Values travel. And sometimes we get a stamp in our passport just by crossing the street.” “Places are like people. They each have a particular identity. In all my travels around the globe I’ve written in my journal about the culture of a place, its identity. If a place and a people move me, I’ll write them a love letter.” Greenlights is a love letter to life.
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Audio and Physical Book are both excellent reads
Stacie G. - 5 years 7 months agoI listened to and read a physical copy of the book. I wish I could say one version is better than the other. I actually think you need both. The audio is read by McConaughey himself and is so much fun to listen to. He laughs at himself, uses accents, shouts, bellows, and just has a great time sharing his stories. But, the physical version has tons of pictures and scans of notes and poems that are worth seeing as well. I loved the story of him working so hard to get the role of Jake in “A Time to Kill” which was his breakout role. In one weekend he went from “being noticed by 4 out of 400 people to being noticed by 396 out of 400 because the other 4 were babies and a blind man.” That was the first movie I remember seeing him in and then watching his career evolve after that from romcoms to more serious dramas. You don’t have to be a fan to love this book. His advice, stories of making movies, and adventures are ones that anyone can enjoy. I also loved his title, Greenlights, and how he used this term or yellow and red lights at the end of every story. If you are looking for a juicy, tell-all celebrity memoir, this is not it. McConaughey loves his given family (parents and siblings), his created family (wife and children), and his friends well. He has no time for gossip or dredging up the past if it has no purpose.
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Couldn’t put down
Yolanda K. - 5 years 7 months agoLoved this book. He talks about why he did certain movie roles and his family. Very good book. Very inspiring
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Not your typical memoir: a must read for every genre!
Brooke Y. - 5 years 7 months agoI couldn't put this down! A true story featuring all of our favorite genres: fantasy, comedy, romance, drama, suspense and action. This memoir goes to show that not every Hollywood actor is just that- this show Matthew's true intellect and depth of his true character. It will make you think twice about your own personal outlook on life and change your perception about your own personal story.