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  <title>The Boys Are Back (Movie Tie-in Edition (Vintage)</title>
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first two-thirds or so of this memoir, about raising his young son after his wife's death from cancer, is so honest and funny and real; I found myself underlining passages on nearly every page. Carr's a great writer, and kept a detailed journal of life with his boy. As he writes in one passage, &quot;You think you're going to remember every moment but children's conversation is so odd, so unlike anything we do later, so original -- we just don't have a frame of reference to hold memories in place. It's like talking to a lunatic -- you have to record it to remember it.&quot;<br/>But the end of the book is much looser, given to sort of rambly musings on movies, sex ed, popular culture, and whatever else occurs to him. It's not a memoir of family life anymore, but a series of observations inspired by conversations with his son. And I found that far less compelling.]]></body>
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