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Off the Top of My Head: Personal Reflections of a Small-Town Newsman Paperback – December 6, 2005

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While working as a reporter at a weekly newspaper in his rural-Maine hometown, Ben Hutchins started a mostly-weekly column about whatever came to mind. The award-winning Off the Top of My Head went on to be one of the paper's most popular features. Coll

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146 pages
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English
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Xlibris
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December 6, 2005
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6 x 0.33 x 9 inches
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1425701620
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978-1425701628
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Benjamin D. Hutchins has worked as a computer support tech, a network operations grunt, an Internet name administrator, and a reporter, but he was a writer all the while. He now lives in darkest Maine with several incomplete manuscripts and a beagle who snores.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Xlibris (December 6, 2005)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 146 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1425701620
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1425701628
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.7 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.33 x 9 inches

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Entertaining and enlightening

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 5, 2008

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This is a *great* book. It's like sitting down next to an old friend or an older brother and listening to his stories. Mr. Hutchins is very skilled and down-to-earth at the same time; the writing moves along briskly but never leaves you in the lurch.

I'm strongly reminded of Patrick McManus, except, instead of tales of the outdoors, it's the trials and tribulations of everything from everyday life to international politics.

Definitely a keeper, one that I'll be re-reading for years to come.

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nels Jense

Fun collection of articles

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Fun collection of articles, clustered around subject rather than date. Highly enjoyed the book when it was given to me, and now I get to give it to others.

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Timothy Emrick

Masterful small-town storytelling

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 11, 2011

I've had the pleasure of hearing Ben Hutchins tell versions of some of these stories in person, before he retold them for the columns collected in this book. Naturally, I was eager to read the collection to enjoy more of his wonderful, funny stories, and I could easily hear his wry voice in my head as I read them.

To hear him for yourself, and learn a little about the origins of the book, watch the sample reading that he has posted to YouTube: [ ... ]

Even though I had a good idea of what to expect from Ben, I was pleasantly surprised by the quality and diversity of the columns in this collection. His columns include musings on things that annoy him, misadventures while attending a friend's wedding, memories of a close friend who died far too young, political editorials, thoughts on literature and history, and whatever other topics he was inspired to write about "off the top of [his] head" that week. Most are designed to be funny, some are quite thought-provoking, and no matter how large or small the topic, all are masterfully told in a way accessible to nearly anyone.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 10, 2006

OTMH is a suprisingly complete slice-of-life collection from the Dave Barry of our generation. I enjoyed it, my friends enjoyed it, and my cat just loves it. I've been pulling extra hours in my shop just to watch people's faces when they pick up this book and read a random page. I guarantee you will regret passing this one up!

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Peter M. Eng

A great read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 12, 2006

The stories range from serious to fall-off-the-chair laughing, but through it all, Benjamin D. Hutchins shows the skill of an experienced writer, never losing the reader's interest.

The paperback cover isn't perfect; it tends to take a curl too easily. But the book itself is excellent, and I'm told that judging a book by its cover is a bad decision anyway.

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