Touch and Go: A Memoir Audiobook

" I read about 30 pages of this book and just could not get into it. "

" I enjoyed reading Studs on himself and his many subjects and acquaintances, great raconteur, I love his recorded interviews. Speak Truth to Power - one of his favourite sayings, still relevant today. Read this book to get a feel for what has happened in the US over the last 100 years or so, Studs is in his 90's now. He went through the great depression and Maccarthyism, much else. The beginning chapter rambles a little but Studs soon gets into his stride, not great prose but readable history with personal passion. This man is a national treasure. "

" i wish i liked this more than i did. "

" An APL Recycled Reads find. I clearly was not the target audience. I did not enjoy his writing style nor did I find his life's story interesting. "

" I listened to the audio version, which is extremely well read. The narrator speaks just as Terkel thinks and writes - in stream of consciousness. One has to listen hard to keep the mind from wandering as the 95-year old Terkel moves from topic to topic and personality to personality. But this is a vintage work as much for the random walk down the twentieth century as for insights into Terkel's life and career. "

" The book rambles at the beginning, but it is worth sticking it through to the end. I would love to sit down with Studds and my grandpa when they were both still sharp. :) "

" So many interesting stories sometimes get a bit rambling (think Grandpa Simpson), but the stories are interested to keep with it. What an amazing life! "

" Really glad I read this - those who fail to remember history (the Great Depression, Communist witch-hunts) are doomed to repeat it. "

" What a life. Studs was born in 1912, so this memoir is as much about history as it is about Terkel himself. The book has a conversational, reminiscent feel. My only complaint about the book is that it includes a fair amount of material pulled from his previous books. "

" Wow. I love Studs Terkel's other books but this was definitely "touch and go" -- incomprehensible in the way it randomly moves from one subject and person to another. I was listening to the audio book and couldn't follow it at all. "

" studs talks about himself and his life in this more than any other of his books. sad that HE didn't have a whole fox network for himself. he was a true american. "

" Studs is quite a storyteller! "

" Not quite as interesting as I was expecting, but it had its moments. "

" I love me a good autobiography, but this one wasn't it. He writes like he's talking and it's total free association so it's hard to follow. I wanted to love it, but I couldn't even finish it. "

" I loved seeing the city I've been madly in love with through the eyes of one of it's richest living treasures: Studs Terkel. "

" Delightfully rambling history. "

" "United States of Amnesia", Terkel tried to fight this condition. It is such an entertaining lesson in history and human solidarity, should be mandatory High School reading. "

" Wow. I love Studs Terkel's other books but this was definitely "touch and go" -- incomprehensible in the way it randomly moves from one subject and person to another. I was listening to the audio book and couldn't follow it at all. "

" "United States of Amnesia", Terkel tried to fight this condition. It is such an entertaining lesson in history and human solidarity, should be mandatory High School reading. "

" A little too much name-dropping and guess who I saw at the dinner party "

" Really glad I read this - those who fail to remember history (the Great Depression, Communist witch-hunts) are doomed to repeat it. "

" Yes. My hero. I only regret that I didn't discover Studs Terkel until recently. "

" I read about 30 pages of this book and just could not get into it. "

" Fantastically written. It's as though he is sitting down and having a conversation with you. "