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The Me Generation... By Me (Growing Up in the '60s) Paperback – June 8, 2012

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The Me Generation… By Me (Growing Up in the ‘60s. Join Emmy-winning comedy writer Ken Levine (MASH, Cheers, Frasier, the Simpsons) as he attempts to grow up in the most exciting and turbulent decade of the 20th Century. From the California Myth, to the Sunset Strip, the war, the Beatles, the hippies, the riots, the drugs, and the sex – Ken Levine has lived it (although not as much sex as he would have liked). He shows you what a profound and indelible effect the ‘60s had on him and the world through a series of hilarious (and sometimes harrowing) first-hand recollections that will put you right there with him.

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Ken Levine is an Emmy winning writer/director/producer/major league baseball announcer. In a career that has spanned over 30 years Ken has worked on MASH, CHEERS, FRASIER, THE SIMPSONS, WINGS, and EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND. He and his partner wrote the feature VOLUNTEERS. Ken has also been the radio/TV play-by-play voice of the Baltimore Orioles, San Diego Padres, and the Seattle Mariners. He is the author of two other books -- WHERE THE HELL AM I? TRIPS I HAVE SURVIVED (a humorous travel book) and IT'S GONE! NO, WAIT A MINUTE (a year broadcasting for the Baltimore Orioles). Ken has won an Emmy, two Writers Guild of America Awards, and has had Humanitas and Peabody recognition. He currently writes a blog byKenLevine.com, that Time magazine has named one of the top 25 blogs in the world. Ken has also co-written a produced musical, THE '60s PROJECT and written a produced play, UPFRONTS AND PERSONAL.

Paperback: 326 pages
Publisher: Ken Levine (June 8, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0615653529
ISBN-13: 978-0615653525
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.8 x 8.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Customer Reviews: 70 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,913,996 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #4969 in Television Performer Biographies
- #62039 in Memoirs (Books)

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PJChgo

Sadly, one of the most boring books ever published

Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2019

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Ken Levine is certainly a talented writer. His resume speaks for itself.

I will say diplomatically that perhaps putting words in the mouths of characters is a much better fit for his talents. This book - where he writes primarily about himself, touching on larger cultural events as a framework - is, well, not one of his finer moments.

It can be a challenge to turn the lens of inquiry onto one's own self. Levine does not meet the challenge in this book. These stories are like family genealogies - mostly only of interest to those that knew the people involved, and otherwise as unremarkable as can be. Pacing is non-existent throughout the text.

I wanted to like this, but I just couldn't. Read Mr. Levine's blog - you'll see he is indeed a gifted writer. Just not with this particular format (and perhaps not in the memoir genre).

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Howard Hoffman

The 60's Through The Eyes and Ears of a Tall Skinny Horny Kid

Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2012

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There are plenty of books about the 60's - those half dark, half blindingly colorful years of psychedelia, protests, drugs, free love, the far-out subculture, an awareness of an emerging new world paradigm which...

Oh, brother. Let's get real. As Ken Levine points out, most of us who grew up in the 60's still couldn't get to third base or as far as mom would drive us. We had to navigate our way through malls, hormones, bad driving, bad clothes, bad jobs, bad neighborhoods, TV dance parties and of course - cricket invasions. Even though he grew up in Surf City, USA, Ken now peels back the scab to show us what it was REALLY like to be a teenager in Los Angeles through that overly-romanticized/reviled decade. It was pretty cool, and he did it all without a surfboard or a guitar.

Ken's pre-adult life was remarkably normal, if you don't count little differences like:

- Classmates such as Ann Jillian and Jan Smithers...and Rachel
- Two and a half appearances on The Dating Game
- Going to a radio station-sponsored Love-In
- Kicking Neil Young out of a record store
- Seeing a part of Goldie Hawn before Kurt Russell did
- Kissing rubber chickens at steakhouses
- A fear of Ringo
- Having the wrong epiphany in Haight-Ashbury during the Summer of Love
- Getting dating advice from Zsa Zsa Gabor and Stooge Moe Howard
- Being among the first seven or eight people to discover Sonny and Cher
- A mom and dad who were much hipper than he was
- Plus about four dozen more hilarious and heartbreaking episodes

One of the great joys of "The ME Generation...by ME" is how Ken uses the events of each year as touchstones to what was going on in his life - as we all do. We may not have been part of those big stories, but we sure remember what we were doing as they happened...and wondered how we could parlay that into getting girls.

From dealing with his love for television (um, quite literally) to the moment he realized he could write comedy and ultimately reaching a very bittersweet end to Ken's Big Decade, it's an age of discovery that Ken is proud to have you laugh at and identify with. You'll be right by his side, reliving a `60s you never knew, wishing you could have been there instead of wherever you really were. I can't think of many books about the `60s that accomplish that.

Get it. Immerse yourself in it. Enjoy.

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R.S. Gompertz

Coming of Age in the Big Valley

Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2014

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Ken Levine's "ME Generation" is a highly personal coming of age memoir set in L.A.'s San Fernando Valley during the 1960's.
He came of age a few miles west and a few years earlier than I did so it's hard for me to separate the cultural and literary value of his memoir from my own personal curiosity and nostalgia.

Maybe I don't have to separate the personal from the historical. I can safely say that his book captures what it was like for nerdy white middle-class Jewish boys to break with their tribe of origin and join the broader youth culture tribe of the times. Ken's fascination with records and radio paved his path from a quiet suburban upbringing to the wild and tumultuous times outside. Vietnam, LBJ, Nixon, student protests, the Sunset Strip Riots, Sergeant Pepper and the big boss beat of L.A. radio created a chaotic, swirling soundtrack for coming of age in the late sixties. Ken keeps his story personal while bringing all these elements into focus.

I read this book because of my interest in L.A. during the sixties. I only later learned about Ken and his significant contributions as a television and film writer and as a sports broadcaster. The fact that he was both shaped by sixties pop culture and helped to shape the culture that followed makes his story more interesting and relevant. The writing is breezy, humorous, enjoyable and often poignant.

I enjoyed revisiting this world that I passed through a few years after Ken did.

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... book gave a real insight to the 60s - Great.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 20, 2014

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Thought that this book gave a real insight to the 60s - Great.

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