“ This was the perfect audio book for my trip from Mendocino back home. Just about the right length and an easy listening book of actor/author Douglas on his life, his kids, his grand kids, and lots of political observations that can only be that honest from someone 90 years old. He devotes an entire chapter to Mel Gibson, for example. Something that hadn't occurred to me before was that the Passion Play was originally designed as a way to incide Christians to rise up against Jews (is that why the most famous one is in Germany?) and that Gibson's The Passion of the Christ was just one long Passion Play, designed to incite violence against Jews...he juxtaposed that against Gibson's antisemetic remarks following an arrest for drunk driving.
Everyone comes in for his or her share of chastisement, yet he makes perfect sense...a good reason why he'd make a lousy politician.
I have to admit that Kirk Douglas was never one of my favorites and that I bought this book simply because Audible.com was having a sale and the length of the book was right, but I'm very glad that I did. In fact, I actually went to Amazon and bought his book about his stroke.”
basykes wrote this review Friday, August 1, 2008.
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