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Great book, Kindle edition needs work

Reviewed in Australia on 31 October 2020

Great book with so much to take out of it. Amazon please do something about the Kindle Edition, the words are way too small and can not be enlarged? Otherwise, this would get a 5 star.

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Melody James

Very short book

Reviewed in Australia on 25 October 2020

Just as I finished the book in a very disappointingly quick read, I thought I had finally reached the meat of the book, the real story or chapters, only to find......., it had ended! Took about an hour to read? I can't believe I paid nearly $16AU for that! I was really looking forward to a good read of a good Memoir. Seems to me, to be something just to generate income in his life. It was SO hard to read on Kindle. Painful to read on Kindle, painfully short, painful waste of money. I warned my sister in time before she shelled out precious bucks for this book. I'm sorry to be leaving such a negative review, when I was so looking forward to reading this much publicized book by an Actor I enjoy.

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Garry

Great book, Kindle edition needs work

Reviewed in Australia on 31 October 2020

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Great book with so much to take out of it. Amazon please do something about the Kindle Edition, the words are way too small and can not be enlarged? Otherwise, this would get a 5 star.

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mel_mox

Loved Matthews story

Reviewed in Australia on 7 January 2021

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This book was written very well. I loved learning about matthews story. He wrote it creatively, with humor and had me hooked in straight away.
I am a fan of Matthews as an actor and was very surprised how down a great earth he is.

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Deon N. Kelly

Hard to relate

Reviewed in Australia on 3 May 2021

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McConaughey is a good actor with some great credits under his belt, particularly 'True Detective', however for anyone who is not a rich actor, it is very difficult to relate to a book that attempts to tell the average Joe what life's all about. Matthew had a lot of luck go his way in life and does not appear to know what true struggle is all about.

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Rodney R.

Very real and honest

Reviewed in Australia on 7 June 2021

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Nice to read a book about someone that is so real, raw, and honest! I have always liked him as an actor, but to be so real and honest when you are a star is remarkable. Great life lessons we all can learn from as well. To be honest with yourself and brave enough to live the life you want, not what others want or expect from you.

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Sio

Truly inspirational!

Reviewed in Australia on 16 March 2022

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A truly inspirational book. This book is filled with great motivation , entertaining humour and some great writing. Reflecting on all the green lights in my own life and truly grateful to see life through his lens!

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Lucy

Loved it

Reviewed in Australia on 31 October 2020

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Great book, entertaining audio. What a life!

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Camel Mammal

A great book to read

Reviewed in Australia on 22 February 2021

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I bought this for my partner for Christmas, then I had a read too! An interesting read with positive ideas for leading your best life!

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Jackson Johnstone

2 days delivery - great book

Reviewed in Australia on 29 December 2021

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Bought as a gift for mum. Quick shipping, great book and great price. Thanks

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This is a book for fans of the actor but also it is a book for anybody who just loves good stories.

Reviewed in Australia on 1 November 2020

Alright, Alright, Alright! Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey....what can I say?

This book was fun, it was entertaining, it was interesting. It made me laugh so much and it broke my heart. Matthew has been one of my favourite actors since A Time To Kill. I loved hearing his behind the scenes stories about making his movies.

But it is so much more than that. Matthew really is a born storyteller. Greenlights covers his life from being a kid right up to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is stories from his diaries that he has been keeping since he was 15. He talks about his exchange student program to Australia, that wasn't quite what he expected but it was a turning point in his life. His experiences, his thoughts and his positive outlook on life, it is all very inspiring.

Some of my favourite stories, apart from his trip to Sydney were the acne story, how he got the role as Jake Brigance in A Time to Kill and the research and story of Dallas Buyers Club. The acne story is worth reading this book alone!

There are some great photos from his life and some get quotes "bumper stickers" as he calls them. I love the way that he looks at things, how to get to those Greenlights, you have to hit some red ones first... everything happens for a reason.

This is a book for fans of the actor but also it is a book for anybody who just loves good stories.

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Amusing, wacky, yet heartfelt and warm.

Reviewed in Australia on 15 November 2020

I really enjoyed this audiobook and not just because of Matthew McConaughey’s warm, tuck me into bed at night voice. He undeniably and authentically gave of himself. I walked away feeling like I had made a new friend. Someone who genuinely wanted to share life with me and give me down-to-earth advice that came from his dinkum real-life experiences.

Synopsis from the publisher, as they do it best.
From the Academy Award®–winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction

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.

I highly recommend this audiobook for anyone who wants to listen to a memoir that is full of humour and heart.

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