false 2252947 2 Deceptively simple and surprisingly addictive, <i>Not Quite What I Was Planning</i> is a thousand glimpses of humanity&#8212;six words at a time. One Life. Six Words. What's Yours? When Hemingway famously wrote, "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn," he proved that an entire story can be told using a half dozen words. When the online storytelling magazine <i>SMITH</i> asked readers to submit six-word memoirs, they proved a whole, real life can be told this way too. The results are fascinating, hilarious, shocking, and moving. From small sagas of bittersweet romance ("Found true love, married someone else") to proud achievements and stinging regrets ("After Harvard, had baby with crackhead"), these terse true tales relate the diversity of human experience in tasty bite-sized pieces. From authors [author:Jonathan Lethem] and [author:Richard Ford] to comedians [author:Stephen Colbert] and [author:Amy Sedaris], to ordinary folks around the world, everyone has a six-word story to tell. 2258828 1 2 2008 Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure total:635|5:194|4:255|3:151|2:32|1:3| 635 2510 1279 199 4 5 false false Wed Dec 05 03:53:31 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 05 04:04:51 -0800 2007 Smith Magazine put this together...more...]]> 3 4 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Feb 15 11:17:23 -0800 2008 Mon May 26 13:36:32 -0700 2008 Kind of cute; got old quickly.

And for all you wise-crackers out there - that's my review of the book, not my own six-word memoir.

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I enjoyed it. Some of the memoirs are funny; some are tragic.

Great examples of a few found in book:
"Soul'd out so I could prophet"

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A little rough around the edges.
My conscience: brought to you by…
Dear mom, how is your cell?
I love god. Love me more.
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Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway was challenged to write a story in six words. "For sale: baby shoes, never worn."
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Loved some of them.

As others have said in the reviews section here, a couple were direct quotes, not attributed to their original authors. That lost a star for it immediately.

Some were very melodramatic. Some were very insightful.
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