Deb's review
Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned by Alan Alda
Deb's review
rating:
bookshelves: book-group, humor, memoir, non-fiction
status: Read in December, 2007
rating:
bookshelves: book-group, humor, memoir, non-fiction
status: Read in December, 2007
Funny, enjoyable and interesting. Alda is a good writer and actor. He is honest in his human-ness.
A quote I really liked: "The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed. Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking abut listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you. When I'm willing to let them change me, something happens between us that's more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues. Like so much of what I learned in the theater, this turned out to be how life works, too." pp. 160-161
A quote I really liked: "The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed. Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking abut listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you. When I'm willing to let them change me, something happens between us that's more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues. Like so much of what I learned in the theater, this turned out to be how life works, too." pp. 160-161
