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 enlarge | Author: Steve Doocy
Publisher: William Morrow
Category: Book
List Price: $25.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 10011
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.3 x 1
ISBN: 0061441627
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.87420973
EAN: 9780061441622
ASIN: 0061441627
Publication Date: October 1, 2008
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It will make you smile December 16, 2008
It is one of those books that will bring back memories of your own life, spouse and children. Enjoyed it.
Great read! December 14, 2008
Thought I could use a little humor right now and bought this book. The book was just what I needed. Very funny and warm.
RICK "SHAQ" GOLDSTEIN SAYS: "FATHER & SON... SON & FATHER... FROM THE HEART WITH A LITTLE TONGUE IN CHEEK" December 10, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The two greatest blessings I've had in my life was the Father I had... and the son I have. Anybody that has similar feelings will love this book by Fox News personality Steve Doocy. What is so pleasingly unique and well done... is the way Steve tells you his life story from so many different personal views and angles. Within the same chapter he will be telling you about his son or daughter at a certain age... and remarkably and seamlessly... you are then sharing his childhood when he was that age... with touching testaments to what a wonderful Father he had. In so many movies and books, today's authors and producers overuse the "FLASH-BACK" scenarios... as well as the "FLASH-FORWARD" maneuver... and some do it so often... that the viewer/reader can't even comprehend what space of time they're currently in. But Steve almost magically takes the reader back... forward... and if you can believe it parallel... without missing a beat.
Steve combines just enough wry wit... to give you a few chuckles between the intimate, cherished, emotional... poignant tugs at your "heart-strings". As the old saying goes: "ANYONE CAN BE A FATHER... BUT IT TAKES SOMEONE SPECIAL TO BE A DAD!"... Well... real Dad's... and real sons... will love this testimony to the real meaning of being a Father and a son. At times I feel the author uses some humor just to protect himself from how strong his love truly is. But he also makes a couple of short powerful statements that echo what has always been in my heart... and in my words... that I "had always" openly shared with my Dad... and "do always" openly share every day of my life with my son. *A REAL DAD IS SOMEONE WHO WOULD DO ANYTHING FOR HIS KIDS*... and when my son was born... *I HAD A REASON TO BE ON EARTH; I WAS SOMEBODY'S DAD.*
I was a single Father and when my son was three-years-old I started traveling around the country in a sales job. I took my son with me... and as he grew I used to say to him: "YOU CAN'T GET AN EDUCATION LIKE THIS AT HARVARD OR YALE... YOU GET IT WITH YOUR DAD!" He learned what life was really like... And because of those trips Justin was light years ahead of kids and adults as he grew. I bring this up because near the end of this book... Steve recounts his spending days making sales calls with his Dad... and he says: "BUT AS I LOOK BACK NOW, I SEE THAT ON THOSE LONG RIDES WITH MY DAD I LEARNED MORE ABOUT PEOPLE AND PLACES AND POLITICS AND HOW THE WORLD WORKS THAN I EVER WOULD FROM ANYBODY ELSE. AT THE TIME IT SEEMED LIKE I WAS KEEPING HIM COMPANY, BUT IT WAS MUCH MORE THAN THAT. I WAS GETTING A MASTER'S DEGREE IN LIFE FROM MY POP. BACK THEN, THE REASON I WENT WAS TO SPEND TIME WITH MY DAD."
At 3:00 PM today... I called my son on the phone... and read him this page... and the love and memories that flew back and forth over the phone line was priceless. My twenty-eight-year-old son asked me to copy the pages and send it to him.
This is the Cure for What Ails You December 9, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Reading " Tales From the Dad Side " takes one from smiles to happy tears and back to smiles in moments. It reminds us all that at the end of the day or at the end of a life it always is and always has been " just about people. " Whether one has children , wants children someday, prefers not to have them or maybe just would like to observe what it's like to , this book is for you. My favorite part was the telling of when the author's own Dad after seeing his son was the only boy at camp sleeping on the ground, went and bought him a cot although he couldn't afford it. This and when the car broke down are classic moments that reminded me of my own experiences. An excellent book.
Our Son the "New Father" December 2, 2008
Tales from the Dad Side: Misadventures in Fatherhood I bought this for my Son who recently became a new Father. Thought he would enjoy reading it.
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