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100 Years: Wisdom From Famous Writers on Every Year of Your Life
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An extraordinary literary journey, 100 Years celebrates every age from birth to 100 with quotations from the world’s greatest writers.
This literary tapestry of the human experience will delight readers of all backgrounds. Moving year by year through the words of our most beloved authors, the great sequence of life reveals itself—the wonders and confinements of childhood, t ...more
This literary tapestry of the human experience will delight readers of all backgrounds. Moving year by year through the words of our most beloved authors, the great sequence of life reveals itself—the wonders and confinements of childhood, t ...more
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Hardcover, 208 pages
Published
May 3rd 2016
by W. W. Norton Company
(first published May 2nd 2016)
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As someone who has spent hours researching (read: clicking my mouse, orchestrating the keyboard, traversing through pages) for some ideas I had for book reviews, I appreciated the author's what must have been a mammoth effort in achieving completeness, with a genuinely pleasing contribution from a graphic designer no less (lovely colours and design!), of compiling quotes for the ages 0-100.
A book that you can pick up time and time again, and ignite all sorts of discussions with a friend, a famil ...more
A book that you can pick up time and time again, and ignite all sorts of discussions with a friend, a famil ...more
This book features a collection of quotes, each related to a different year of one's life, from birth (0 years) to, presumably, death (100 years). Each quote is taken from a literary work, and is printed on a page of its own, with the age mentioned in the quote printed opposite it. Every page is printed in a different colour, and the colours vary gradually in tone from start to end.
Reading through this book from start to end was a highly reflective, somewhat meditative, and on the whole, inspiri ...more
Reading through this book from start to end was a highly reflective, somewhat meditative, and on the whole, inspiri ...more
Aug 18, 2018
John of Canada
rated it
really liked it
Recommends it for:
design and art lovers.
Shelves:
art,
non-fiction
Basically a book of quotations,however the design by Milton Glaser is wonderful,how the page colours blend into each other.Glaser is one of my favourite people.Anything he writes or designs is very worthy.Hie description of toxic people is very instructive.
And me..."at thirty-nine, everybody's their own problem. " _John Updike, Rabbit Remembered
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Jun 18, 2016
Sarah
marked it as to-read
Interview with the author on the TED radio hour:
http://www.npr.org/2016/06/10/4812911... ...more
http://www.npr.org/2016/06/10/4812911... ...more
not really my cup of tea.. i am a slow reader and this took me 1 hour to finish. quotes seems random and arbritrary, but there were some good ones.
the book itself is pretty all the way through.
the book itself is pretty all the way through.
I was given a lovely book as a Christmas present entitled 100 Years by Joshua Prager and Milton Glaser. The book contains passages written by famous writers for every year of life from birth to 100. As I flipped through the book and noticed the opposing left- and right-justified colored pages, I realized that this was a book to hold and touch, not scroll through on a Kindle. I thought some of the passages related to the younger years were quite deep and thoughtful, and I laughed at many of the q
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This book is very pretty. It's a collection of quotes from authors (novelists and otherwise) about every year of life from zero to one hundred. Some are stretching it a bit, and not all of them are actually about being said age, but it's an interesting undertaking nonetheless. Perhaps something worth bringing out on people's birthdays.
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Some books are owned but never read. They often are given by happenstance or inherited. Other books are borrowed and read --library books are a good example. They come my way by reference or passing interest. The salient books in my collection are most often gifted or purchased from bookstores to be read and then to populate the titles on my bookshelves. These books anchor the foundation of my experiences. "100 Years" is a compilation of quotes by Joshua Prager with illustrations by Milton Glase
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Great collection of writings on each year of life. Interesting perspective. I've always been fascinated with time and life and there were some great thoughts in this book. My favorite was the idea that we are but renting this dust (body). Really puts life in perspective and "big" issues shrink to their proper proportion.
The only reason I didn't give it a 5 was because some selections were unfortunately short and I was hoping for more context to the age related thought.
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The only reason I didn't give it a 5 was because some selections were unfortunately short and I was hoping for more context to the age related thought.
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Funtastic! Lot of fun also to write some of the quotes on birthday cards.
A book filled with a quote for every year of life. Every decade is marked by a general quote on that decade. Well done and lots of work in putting and assembling this book together
A book filled with a quote for every year of life. Every decade is marked by a general quote on that decade. Well done and lots of work in putting and assembling this book together
Wish I had known more of the writers.
Great read for any age.
It's such a thoughtful, beautiful book. I leave it on my coffee table and it gets picked up by guests. It makes a great gift.
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Loved all the quotes and totally related to the ones of the ages I’ve already been.
Hmmmm...didn't quite feel the wisdom with this. Maybe some bits here and there.
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Aug 12, 2018
Lakota Grace
rated it
it was amazing
Recommends it for:
gift givers, for every age!
Shelves:
quotations
Imagine if you could ask the most famous authors in the world their views on your age today. What would they say? Better yet, what advice could they give you as you enter your next decade, and the next after that?
This is the delight that the book 100 YEARS by Joshua Prager provides. In collecting these quotes, he had very specific criteria that made the challenge all the more difficult: an author could be used only once, and the specific year must be included in the quote. What fun!
It was a slo ...more
This is the delight that the book 100 YEARS by Joshua Prager provides. In collecting these quotes, he had very specific criteria that made the challenge all the more difficult: an author could be used only once, and the specific year must be included in the quote. What fun!
It was a slo ...more
A close friend flipped through the pages, clapped it closed, and admonished my choice. "I'm stepping in here to say you're not allowed to read this - not in your place in time." His concern landed lightly for the tone and overstatement. But he meant it. My response is this: life fucking sucks, so choose the type of problems you want (they come with the territory), realize you're not that important, take responsibility for 150% of your consequences - even though you may not be to blame for your c
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Some quotes I liked:
"I was fond of the world at that age. Magic happened. When an adult explained the concept of hell to me at age four, I dug a hole in the backyard and saw naked people dancing underground." - Amy Tan, The Opposite of Fate
"When you are nine years old, what you remember seems forever; for you remember everything and everything is important and stands big and full and fills up Time and is so solid that you can walk around and around it like a tree and look at it. You are aware t ...more
"I was fond of the world at that age. Magic happened. When an adult explained the concept of hell to me at age four, I dug a hole in the backyard and saw naked people dancing underground." - Amy Tan, The Opposite of Fate
"When you are nine years old, what you remember seems forever; for you remember everything and everything is important and stands big and full and fills up Time and is so solid that you can walk around and around it like a tree and look at it. You are aware t ...more
Quick read - cool book of quotes for each year of life. My top four quotes were from ages 14, 16, 40, and 60.
14: "Even though I'm only fourteen, I know what I want, I know who's right and who's wrong, I have my own opinions, ideas, and principles, and though it may sound odd coming from a teenager, I feel I'm more of a person than a child -- I feel I'm completely independent of others." - Ann Frank, The Diary of Ann Frank
16: "At sixteen the adolescent knows what it is to suffer, for he himself h ...more
14: "Even though I'm only fourteen, I know what I want, I know who's right and who's wrong, I have my own opinions, ideas, and principles, and though it may sound odd coming from a teenager, I feel I'm more of a person than a child -- I feel I'm completely independent of others." - Ann Frank, The Diary of Ann Frank
16: "At sixteen the adolescent knows what it is to suffer, for he himself h ...more
This is a quick read and a charming look at the way writers have characterized each year of life from birth to 100. It was exciting to get to the page for my current age (which I definitely related to), look back at previous years and connect those ideas to memories, and to think about what lies ahead. My biggest takeaway: People seem to start worrying about being old around their mid-thirties, and as most of us have decades left beyond that point and seem to look back at any previous age as bei
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I was lucky enough to run into this gorgeous volume at the used book sale at my library and plucked it up on a whim. It features a quote about every year from 1 to 100 laid out beautifully on thick paper in gentle, luminous colors. It was a pleasure to read straight through, contemplating the slow but steady trudge we take through the years and the myriad revelations the passage of time brings, but I can tell it's a volume I'll keep taking off the shelf for birthdays and contemplations about lov
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Almost perfect
This book is an great idea and well done. I just wish I could have the following changes:
1. Every quote needs to be from a person the actual age they are writing about. I know this is impossible for the first 5 or so years.
2. I wish that we had a few quotes for each age to get diversity in gender and economic status.
This book is an great idea and well done. I just wish I could have the following changes:
1. Every quote needs to be from a person the actual age they are writing about. I know this is impossible for the first 5 or so years.
2. I wish that we had a few quotes for each age to get diversity in gender and economic status.
A quick, contemplative read. A wide variety of sources to cover what each year of life is like. Some I agree with and some I don't but interesting to think on nonetheless. The design and visualizations were soothing--although I had to laugh that the 90 years slowly turned blacker and darker.
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100 Years is a selection of quotes from authors works for each year of life from birth to year 100. Profound and enjoyable, most especially reading closest to my actual age, yet this is a book for all to enjoy. Delightful!
Makes you think about living your life and that’s good enough for me
Clever idea that doesn't really provide insights into what it means to be of a particular age. Quotes from various writers that mention that age.
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Interesting idea but a lot of the quotes not great.
Really enjoyed, really interesting
A very written and insightful book. Very enjoyable
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Joshua Prager writes for publications including Vanity Fair, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, where he was a senior writer for eight years. George Will has described his work as "exemplary journalistic sleuthing."
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