Greenlights Greenlights

Greenlights

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Publisher Description

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.

I'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 realising that the yellows and reds eventually turn green too.

Good luck.

The audiobook now includes an exclusive interview with Matthew McConaughey which was recorded during his book tour in 2021.

(P)2020 Penguin Random House LLC

GENRE
Biography
NARRATOR
MM
Matthew McConaughey
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
06:59
hr min
RELEASED
2020
20 October
PUBLISHER
Headline
SIZE
295.7
MB

Customer Reviews

hailstones 76 ,

Green lights

Well spoken no surprise but his path and the execution of it to the listeners brought about extremes of emotion. MUST READ ! Amazing MMc thank you for sharing

Caroline Dalmeny ,

Dreary. Self involved. Shallow.

See above.

We_Use_This_Stuff ,

It started off well but then. . .

It started off well, but rapidly switched into a self serving , self congratulatory “aren’t I wonderful” book.
Which left me from initially liking Matthew, to loathing the guy.

Definitely a purchase I regret, and if I could get my money back I would.

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