Greenlights
(Libby/OverDrive eAudiobook)

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McConaughey, Matthew Author, Narrator
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Books on Tape , 2020.
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 6 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE! Discover the life-changing memoir that has inspired millions of readers through the Academy Award–winning actor’s unflinching honesty, unconventional wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction.“The No. 1 celebrity memoir of the past 10 years.”—USA Today“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*ckI’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 realizing that the yellows and reds eventually turn green too. Good luck.The short dust jacket included with this hardcover edition is an intentional design choice.

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eAudiobook
Edition
Unabridged
Street Date
10/20/2020
Language
English
ISBN
9780593294192

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Published Reviews

Kirkus Book Review

All right, all right, all right: The affable, laconic actor delivers a combination of memoir and self-help book. "This is an approach book," writes McConaughey, adding that it contains "philosophies that can be objectively understood, and if you choose, subjectively adopted, by either changing your reality, or changing how you see it. This is a playbook, based on adventures in my life." Some of those philosophies come in the form of apothegms: "When you can design your own weather, blow in the breeze"; "Simplify, focus, conserve to liberate." Others come in the form of sometimes rambling stories that never take the shortest route from point A to point B, as when he recounts a dream-spurred, challenging visit to the Malian musician Ali Farka Touré, who offered a significant lesson in how disagreement can be expressed politely and without rancor. Fans of McConaughey will enjoy his memories--which line up squarely with other accounts in Melissa Maerz's recent oral history, Alright, Alright, Alright--of his debut in Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused, to which he contributed not just that signature phrase, but also a kind of too-cool-for-school hipness that dissolves a bit upon realizing that he's an older guy on the prowl for teenage girls. McConaughey's prep to settle into the role of Wooderson involved inhabiting the mind of a dude who digs cars, rock 'n' roll, and "chicks," and he ran with it, reminding readers that the film originally had only three scripted scenes for his character. The lesson: "Do one thing well, then another. Once, then once more." It's clear that the author is a thoughtful man, even an intellectual of sorts, though without the earnestness of Ethan Hawke or James Franco. Though some of the sentiments are greeting card--ish, this book is entertaining and full of good lessons. A conversational, pleasurable look into McConaughey's life and thought. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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Citations

APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

McConaughey, M. (2020). Greenlights (Unabridged). Books on Tape.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

McConaughey, Matthew. 2020. Greenlights. Books on Tape.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

McConaughey, Matthew. Greenlights Books on Tape, 2020.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

McConaughey, M. (2020). Greenlights. Unabridged Books on Tape.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

McConaughey, Matthew. Greenlights Unabridged, Books on Tape, 2020.

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