Overall good book!
"I would definitely recommend you listen to him read this story he does a really good job at storytelling and you get a few chuckles in as well. Kind of a slow read but overall great book"
FATHER'S DAY
Greenlights
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 6 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE! Discover the life-changing memoir that has inspired millions of readers through the Academy Award–winning actor’s unflinching honesty, unconventional wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction.
“The No. 1 celebrity memoir of the past 10 years.”—USA Today
“McConaughey’s book invites us to grapple with the lessons of his life as he did—and to see that the point was never to win, but to understand.”—Mark Manson, author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
I’ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to be more me.
Recently, I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries. I found stories I experienced, lessons I learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. I found a reliable theme, an approach to living that gave me more satisfaction, at the time, and still: If you know how, and when, to deal with life’s challenges—how to get relative with the inevitable—you can enjoy a state of success I call “catching greenlights.”
So I took a one-way ticket to the desert and wrote this book: an album, a record, a story of my life so far. This is fifty years of my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shamefuls. Graces, truths, and beauties of brutality. Getting away withs, getting caughts, and getting wets while trying to dance between the raindrops.
Hopefully, it’s medicine that tastes good, a couple of aspirin instead of the infirmary, a spaceship to Mars without needing your pilot’s license, going to church without having to be born again, and laughing through the tears.
It’s a love letter. To life.
It’s also a guide to catching more greenlights—and to realizing that the yellows and reds eventually turn green too.
Good luck.
The short dust jacket included with this hardcover edition is an intentional design choice.
“The No. 1 celebrity memoir of the past 10 years.”—USA Today
“McConaughey’s book invites us to grapple with the lessons of his life as he did—and to see that the point was never to win, but to understand.”—Mark Manson, author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
I’ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to be more me.
Recently, I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries. I found stories I experienced, lessons I learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. I found a reliable theme, an approach to living that gave me more satisfaction, at the time, and still: If you know how, and when, to deal with life’s challenges—how to get relative with the inevitable—you can enjoy a state of success I call “catching greenlights.”
So I took a one-way ticket to the desert and wrote this book: an album, a record, a story of my life so far. This is fifty years of my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shamefuls. Graces, truths, and beauties of brutality. Getting away withs, getting caughts, and getting wets while trying to dance between the raindrops.
Hopefully, it’s medicine that tastes good, a couple of aspirin instead of the infirmary, a spaceship to Mars without needing your pilot’s license, going to church without having to be born again, and laughing through the tears.
It’s a love letter. To life.
It’s also a guide to catching more greenlights—and to realizing that the yellows and reds eventually turn green too.
Good luck.
The short dust jacket included with this hardcover edition is an intentional design choice.
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Greenlights is a memoir by Matthew McConaughey that offers life lessons and reflections on living with greater satisfaction. It has been praised for its honesty, wisdom, and entertaining storytelling.
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- Book Quality: 60%
- Story Engagement: 25%
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- "A thoroughly enjoyable life story told with great self-reflection and humor." —
- "Thoroughly enjoyed this book." —
- "There are some crazy unbelievable stories along the way!" —
Reviews
Exceeded All Expectations
"I’m not one to turn to celebrity memoirs but as McConaughey says (in a much saucier and more rhythmic manner) in the intro, this book is much more than that. Yes, he recounts life anecdotes, but they serve to inform the life lessons he’s sharing with us. Let’s just say this book was a greenlight."
Exceeded All Expectations
"I’m not one to turn to celebrity memoirs but as McConaughey says (in a much saucier and more rhythmic manner) in the intro, this book is much more than that. Yes, he recounts life anecdotes, but they serve to inform the life lessons he’s sharing with us. Let’s just say this book was a greenlight."
I was surprised
"It was a great read . I haven’t read a autobiography in a while so I decided to pick this up and I enjoyed this far more then I expected made me want to read more autobiography’s ."
Humbling
"Title: Greenlights Author: Matthew McConaughey Release Date: October 20th, 2020 Page Count: 288 Format: Audiobook Start Date: June 19th, 2022 Finish Date: June 26th, 2022 Rating: 5 Stars Review: I really love books like these. You get to know the person better. It humanizes the celebrity. I think that's really needed. I would have never thought that he could have had a rough life. It's so easy to forget that they lived normal lives before they became successful. He narrated the book himself. Which was also nice. I'm not really sure what else to say about this book. I feel like I'd like to go back and actually read it one day. I'd like to get a physical copy for myself to have on my shelf. I definitely have a lot of respect for McConaughey. He's one of the celebrities I'd be happy to meet one time. I think he'd be very nice."
Alright x3
"I purchased the book and read through it, thoroughly enjoyed it. Went back and purchased the Audiobook read by Matthew himself, far better. Do yourself a favor and read this."
Green lights
"A tedious exercise of Narcissism Only finished it because it was my book club pick"
If you're a fan of his, you'll love it!
"If you're a fan of Matthew McConaughey's, you'll surely love his book. I read it simply because my bestie just gushed over it, but personally, I think he's a wee bit ""extra"". I suppose, however, that's what makes him so loveable to so many people. He included lots of over-the-top stories and things that make you go hmmm. . . but also lots of positivity with great life lessons too! If you choose to read it, I recommend the audio version for the full ""McConaughey experience"" that'll have you quoting ""Alright, alright, alright for weeks to come!"
Is this book a joke?
"I honestly feel like I'm being punked. The absolute WORST autobiography I've ever read, and I've read a LOT of them. His 'tall tales' (stealing lumber and building a tree house 100' high in the middle of the night in the forest when he's a kid?) (Getting motorcycles from a friendly rental person for almost free and he brings him a new free motorcycle when he totals one?) are ridiculous, but his corny, dime-store philosophy via what reads more like a little girls diary entries on scraps of paper, was so inane I stopped reading them halfway through. His ego and self-aggrandizement are unlimited. Honestly, I can't believe anyone who has ever read an autobiography liked this. It being a best seller is mind-boggling. It truly speaks to the fact that we are a nation divided. I would have stopped reading but actually it became funny at one point and I enjoyed the unintentional comedy. A few friends and I read passages to each other and laughed so hard at how unbelievably stupid they were that we could hardly breathe!"
If you're a fan of his, you'll love it!
"If you're a fan of Matthew McConaughey's, you'll surely love his book. I read it simply because my bestie just gushed over it, but personally, I think he's a wee bit extra. I suppose, however, that's what makes him so loveable to so many people. He included lots of over-the-top stories and things that make you go hmmm. . . but also lots of positivity with great life lessons too! If you choose to read it, I recommend the audio version for the full McConaughey experience that'll have you quoting Alright, alright, alright for weeks to come!"