A collection of short stories written by the award-winning actor, Tom Hanks. I was excited by this as I love him as an actor, enjoyed listening to interviews with him, and was intrigued by what he would do with his stories.
I was disappointed, big time. There were a couple of the longer stories that were good but the majority were boring and pointless. Nothing happened. I read a lot of short stories and even though they are short, you can still build a new world or make interesting characters that the reader wants to know more about or a plot that grips the reader. That was not the case here. It was really more like sitting around listening to your grandfather tell boring old tales of people he knew in his youth that you don't know and don't care about and the stories just ramble for no reason and most of them have the same basic premise so you don't even get any type of departure from type. My dad is 90, trust me I'm really familiar with it and that's not what I want to read.
Page count: 416p/7,378p ytd/828,263p lifetime
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