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If I Live to Be 100: Lessons from the Centenarians | 
 enlarge | Author: Neenah Ellis
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 176980
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 1400051428
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.26092273
EAN: 9781400051427
ASIN: 1400051428
Publication Date: March 23, 2004
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Product Description
Neenah Ellis's New York Times bestselling If I Live to Be 100 takes us inside the world of the very old and invites us to learn from them the art of living well for an exceptionally long period of time. Their stories add up to a course in living, with lessons and inspiration for all of us.
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 Not much substance for such a great topic December 21, 2007
Like some of the other reviewers, I also expected more from this book, not so much "the meaning of life," but some wise lessons about how to stay positive, how to overcome the hardships of life and how to focus on what's important in life. I also expected more anecdotal passages about life a century ago. Instead, the book is thin on wisdom, thin on historical information and much more about the author's interviewing difficulties and personal angst over her own decisions (esp regarding children.) Moreover, I kept asking myself, If you keep finding out that these interviews should be done in many hours over several days to get really good material, why do you keep coming up short on time and information? It doesn't say much for someone whose job involves interviewing that she can't seem to get this into her head. The book is worth reading - it's an easy read - as long as you don't expect too much from it.
 Inspirational and Entertaining July 25, 2007
This book will inspire the reader to think about and plan to model the individuals featured in the book. Reading their stories inspired me to share the book with my father, who is 83. "Here's to another 17 years," I told him. The book reiterated the philosophy and reality of "We only go around once."
 Maddeningly uneven book. March 16, 2006
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
When I started reading this book I hoped it would be about centenarians and offer clues into their miraculous longevity, but instead the author's digressions are frustrating. Half way through the book and we realized much of the book is about the author, her marriage, and even a visit to her psychotherapist (!).0 Many paragraphs are like reading an on-the-road travelogue as the author describes scenery and environs to and from her interviews.
Do we care? How is it relevenat to the secrets of centenarians?
Important questions are virtually ignored: what's their spirituality/relligious beliefs? diet? excercise? etc. Instead the author asks innane and irrelevant questions such as "What was the dust bowl like?" as if there are not already written accounts found in any library? Maybe the author doesn't mind wasting time figuring she too will to 100, but I sure can't say that about myself. I don't like my time wasted.
 Disappointing December 24, 2005
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
The subtitle of the book is quite deceptive. I forced myself to finish this book b/c I was halfway through it when I realized that there are no lessons from centurians. The book mostly consists of her battling with her own interviewing habits and really offers nothing in the way of lessons told by the interviewees. As the other reviewer mentioned, it has no substance. Quite a disappointment for such a good idea!
Pomp and Circumstance July 7, 2005
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
A well written documentary, but very long on fluff and sentimentality and short in substance.
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