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Hello Goodbye Hello: A Circle of 101 Remarkable Meetings Hardcover – August 7, 2012

by Craig Brown (Author)
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Product Details

  • Hardcover: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster (August 7, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 145168360X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1451683608
  • Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 1.1 x 9.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (61 customer reviews)
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42 of 42 people found the following review helpful
Cute, but one gimmick too many
By Hubcap on September 24, 2012
Format: Hardcover
Hello Goodbye Hello has a fine concept: 101 daisy-chained encounters between the great, the good, the bad and the somewhere-in-between. But for some reason Craig Brown decided this wasn't enough of a gimmick. So on top of that, each of the 101 encounters is 1001 words long. This conceit hurts the book. The writing is weirdly choppy, with callbacks to names that have never actually been mentioned; the same snippet being included in both the body of the text and the footnotes; a strange jumpiness between paragraphs; and other visible scars from the editing process. On top of that, not all of these encounters are equally interesting. But because of the gimmick, they are treated as though they are.

A book like this should be an exercise in style. His fixation on 101x1001 crippled his style, knocked the book out of rhythm and in the end made me wish it had ended about 80 pages before it actually did. Which is not really what I'm looking for in light entertainment. When the gimmick hurts the writing, you need to drop the gimmick.
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32 of 41 people found the following review helpful
"HILARIOUS,CLEVER, ENJOYABLE!"
By Geraldine Ahearn TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on August 7, 2012
Format: Hardcover
Craig Brown delivers 101 fascinating, true encounters between the rich and famous as he portrays the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. This perfect summer read is awesome to bring to the beach, or for any leisure time. This collection of true tales is strange, interesting, and witty. Some encounters are simply laugh-out-loud fun. Delightful, and entertaining from beginning to end. Highly Recommended!
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Has its moments
By Dr Crone on August 17, 2012
Format: Hardcover Verified Purchase
Hello Goodbye Hello has moments of wonderful, visually-rich description and is generally enjoyable. Very Brit-twit-centric, as you'd expect, and not particularly well-written but Mr Brown has a great eye for hilarious detail from the apparently inexhaustible well of bad public figure behavior. I will always treasure the image of GB Shaw crashing his bicycle into Betrand Russell, then somehow managing to pop up to jeer at Russell at every station as Russell returns by train, his bicycle too wrecked to ride home.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
"All my life's a circle ... same for famous people"
By Andrew Kuligowski on October 23, 2012
Format: Hardcover
What was the first (or most significant) meeting between two famous people like? Who else DID they meet? Craig Brown explores this with "Hello Goodbye Hello" - bring us in a wide circle with 101 meetings between 101 famous people, each meeting and each new person acting as a bridge to the next tale stretching in time from 1876 to 2006.

Who is the "1st / only degree of separation" between Adolph Hitler and Rudyard Kipling? What happened during the meeting between Dali and Freud? Or between Houdini and Theodore Roosevelt? What was George Bernard Shaw's first impression of Harpo Marx?

The book's 101 short (1001 words each, 3 to 4 pages depending on footnotes) stories allow for a series of quick reads; you can put the book down and pick it back up without losing your (or the author's) chain of thought. There is an emphasis on British personalities - which is to be expected given the author's heritage - BUT a prefix for American audiences provides an introduction to many of those who may or may not be familiar on this side of the Atlantic.

Definitely an interesting way to devote a little time each day. Or a LOT of time each day ...

DISCLOSURE: I was provided my copy of this book free of charge in a contest. The hope was that I would enjoy it and post a good review; the request was simply to read it and write a review; however, no guarantees were made on my part other than to grant permission for the postman to leave a copy in my mailbox.(
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Questionably Appealing To A Modern Audience
By G.I Gurdjieff TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on September 29, 2012
Format: Hardcover
I enjoyed this book for the most part. This collection of encounters between the famous at times is extremely humorous such as when George Bernard Shaw enthusiastically harasses Bertrand Russell. However, it did make me wonder if a contemporary audience would be familiar with Shaw, Russell, Gurdjieff, or the Duchess of Windsor just for starters. I was aware of whom most of the celebrities he discussed were, but I drew blanks when it came to the author of Mary Poppins. I swear I felt like Bambi staring at a pair of headlights when I encountered the lady's name and waited a paragraph or two to find out who the woman of mystery was. I'm not sure that a lot of people would be interested in reading stories about anonymous celebrities or even people they were familiar with but not necessarily intrigued by. That said, the stories imparted are interesting and at times funny and appealing.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Moderately tedious
By T. M. Sell on August 22, 2012
Format: Hardcover
The pitch for this book says it's funny: It's not. This was also supposed to be the American edition, and the author provides a few biographical notes at the beginning about people in the book who might not be well known to Americans. He could have included a lot more, as the book deals with and mentions dozens of Brits who are not famous across the pond. Some of the vignettes are quite touching, and some of them are interesting, but a lot of them fall into the category of who the heck cares about these folks? Plus you get to wade through snippets of untranslated French and lots of British colloquialisms. An occasionally engaging book, but largely not as advertised.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Anecdotal, interesting, fascinating, revealing
By Chris Fow Cohen on April 23, 2013
Format: Hardcover Verified Purchase
It's a small world — sometimes, almost too small. Which Marx brother drove Rachmaninoff out of his bungalow? Who was sunning naked when he encountered the famous Irish writer — but wait, I've written too much. You get it all: Mich, Tolstoy, Stalin, Harpo Marx, Queen Elizabeth II, Madonna, Elizabeth Taylor... Small, bite-sized vignettes are easy to absorb, quick to read and rather compelling. And really, who doesn't want to know what Richard Burton did in the presence of the Duke of Windsor?
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