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Bill Geist's hilarious book describes his personal struggle with the awful aging process and with the monumental milestone called the Big Five-Oh. From the trauma of receiving an application to join the AARP to the realization that he can't really see the menu, hear the waiter, or remember the specials, Geist catalogs the discontents, large and small, of those approaching and passing fifty. He lies about his age, shops for a Harley, buys an Ab-Roller, receives liposuction counseling, finds himself the oldest guy at a rock concert, catches himself paying attention to a Depends commercial, buys "relaxed fit" jeans, falls asleep at a party, wakes up from a nightmare about college tuition, and damn near buys a Cadillac!
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Vanessa Pelle
reviewed Big Five-Oh!: Fearing, Facing, and Fighting Fifty on December 04, 2018
Big Five-Oh!
I really wanted to like this book, but I decided to abandon it after 80 pages. I did skim the rest to see if I would be missing much and continued to be disappointed. My main problem with this book is the level of crude humor. That is just not my preference.
I just turned 54, so I'm at the end of the Baby Boomers and I think Bill Geist is closer to the beginning of the generation. Therefore I did not identify with some of the jokes and references to things that were happening when he turned 50 in the late 90s. I had a much different perspective of the 90s.
Of course I do identify with the physical part of aging and all that entails. And I did (and continue to) throw out solicitations from AARP. (I'm only 54! Let me NOT be a senior citizen for as long as I can please.) So even though it really goes against my grain to leave a book unfinished, I'm going to have to move on to another of the hundreds of books on my TBR that I'm sure I will enjoy.
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