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jelek86's review against another edition
4.0
You couldn't pick four words to better describe my life these days.
bdhoffmeister's review against another edition
3.0
If I could give this book exactly 2 1/2 stars, I would. I suppose by the general rules of math, rounding up to 3 is good enough. As a new parent, I was hoping for something a little more insightful or originally humorous from this collection of what amounts to short, nonfiction(?) or possibly somewhat fictionalized in certain respects (more likely, especially in terms of specific dialogue) stories by a dad about the tribulations of child-rearing. While a lot of the stories were amusing, Robert Wilder falls back a little on some cliches and isn't particularly reflective about his own or his wife's parenting styles. That said, kids do funny things, and the tales of his children give me something to look forward to with my own. Perhaps that extra half-star can also be attributed to his descriptions of life in Santa Fe, a city where I work but don't live. Many of the observations of its people and culture are right on the money.
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