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Silverstein and Me: A Memoir
by
Marv Gold
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class="Body">Shel’s fans will question this book. It is a no-holds-barred memoir that may make some laugh out loud, scream, shout, and cry. And it may forever alter one’s view of success. Is this the Silverstein so man...more
Paperback, 208 pages
Published
June 1st 2009
by Red Hen Press
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Shel Silverstein was many things—a children's author, a Playboy cartoonist, a songwriter, and a playwright. (He is the author of one of my all-time favorite books, The Giving Tree.) One thing he was not: forthcoming about his personal life. A recluse for most of his adult life, Shel Silverstein did not grant many interviews. And the interviews he did give were often filled with sarcasm, jokes and misinformation. Even the identity of the mother of one of his children is shr...more
Shel Silverstein was many things—a children's author, a Playboy cartoonist, a songwriter, and a playwright. (He is the author of one of my all-time favorite books, The Giving Tree.) One thing he was not: forthcoming about his personal life. A recluse for most of his adult life, Shel Silverstein did not grant many interviews. And the interviews he did give were often filled with sarcasm, jokes and misinformation. Even the identity of the mother of one of his children is shr...more
If you are a fan of Shel Silverstein as poet and children's author, I offer a word of caution. The author, a lifelong friend of Silverstein, focuses mainly on Silverstein's years cartooning and writing for Playboy magazine, and several of Silverstein's sexual experiences are graphically described.
If you are looking to understand more about the reclusive artist that was Shel Silverstein, this book perhaps provides insight into his lonliness, his humor, and his delight in ironies and...more
If you are looking to understand more about the reclusive artist that was Shel Silverstein, this book perhaps provides insight into his lonliness, his humor, and his delight in ironies and...more
The poetry of Shel Silverstein is a big part of my childhood, so it was with trepidation that I began reading this memoir by a lifelong friend. Sometimes I just don't want to know about people's dark sides. (And, admittedly, sometimes I do.) But this wasn't an expose. Rather, it was a pleasant collection of memories of a guy who was undeniably memorable. Like many people, I was most familiar with Silverstein's children's books, but this tale focuses more on his beginnings, from childhood thr...more
What do you know about Shel Silverstein? If you are like I was ten years ago, nothing. Yes, you heard that right. Before I became a mother, I’d had no idea that a person name Shel Silverstein existed. I never liked poetry, I still don’t like it but when my daughter asked me to read Mr. Silverstein’s poems from the Runny Babbit I honestly became enchanted by them because of how simple they were yet each and every one carried a meaning important to me and I like to think my daughter as well. Since...more
I am such a huge fan of Silverstein, but I could not get into this book. It was just poorly written, plus nothing truly revealing or fascinating here. I skimmed to the end stopping to fully read a few pages here and there, after reading about the first third of the book. I don't know that I would recommend this to anyone unless they had to read EVERYTHING ever written about Silvestein.
This is the author's memoir detailing his relationship with Shel Silverstein. There is nothing truly extraordinary revealed, the book provides some slightly interesting detail to the outline found in the appendix. Not a painful read, but not exactly the most exciting either.
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