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Its quite a life Pattersons and this fizzing funny often deeply moving memoir is a perfect way to understand the dizzying world of a bestselling writer Daily Mail
Damn near addictive I loved it that Patterson guy can write Ron Howard
THE INSTANT 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERHow did a kid whose dad lived in the poorhouse become the most successful storyteller in the world
- On the morning he was born he nearly died
- Growing up he didnt love to read That changed
- He worked at a mental hospital in Massachusetts where he met the singer James Taylor and the poet Robert Lowell
- While he toiled in advertising hell James wrote the ad jingle line Im a Toys R Us Kid
- He once watched James Baldwin and Norman Mailer square off to trade punches at a party
- Hes only been in love twice Both times are amazing
- Dolly Parton once sang Happy Birthday to James over the phone She calls him JJ for Jimmy James
- Three American presidents have invited him to golf with them
How did a boy from smalltown New York become the worlds most successful writer How does he do it He has always wanted to write the kind of novel that would be read and reread so many times that the binding breaks and the book literally falls apart As he says Im still working on that one
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