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My Dad and Me: A Heartwarming Collection of Stories About Fathers from a Host of Larry's Famous Friends

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Am really disappointed in the book for a variety of reasons. One, 95% of the people listed aren't well known, or have such little to say that I got the feeling this was a slap together book that was produced simply to produce monies for his cardiac foundation. So disappointed I am sending it back to Amazon.com.

The few bits of wisdom one can glean from the people in the book, is work hard, don't give up, don't lie and be nice to people on the way up because you may need them on the way down.

Am sitting here trying to figure out who the target audience for this book is? Sure cannot be the under fifty crowd since there are so few people aside from Bill Gates, Joe Perry of Aerosmith for boomers to read. Where are the Tom Hanks, Steve Jobs, the young men who founded Yahoo and Google? Oprah, Jon Stewart, Ron Howard, Mel Gibson? Joe Montana, Jerry Rice, Steve Young?
Condi Rice, Tony Blair, etc?

Over 120 successful and well-known personages were asked to relay their favorite memories of their dads for this book. Larry King's was "Don't lie," Alan Dershowitz's was "fight up, not down" (don't pick on people smaller than you), Randy Johnson's was "Do the best you can - you might not get a second chance," and Dr. Koop's was learning the difference between being able to "buy" vs. "afford" something.

Yes, there are some tidbits here and there, but it is hard to convey much in a page or less (in most instances). In any case, it is nice Father's Day material, and the proceeds go to one of Larry King's foundations for helping others.