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You're Only Old Once! A Book for Obsolete Children Review

As we age, consulting health professionals becomes more and more frequent, with more body parts being examined in more and more detail. The extra scrutiny is not flattering; it is more in the line of frustrating, tedious, sometimes frightening and generally boring. Seuss captures all of these aspects of the life of the aging person and interjects a bit of humor into the natural consequences of aging. Few aspects of the inevitable medical consequences of growing old are enjoyable, so any humor or fun that can be poked at the process is of great value.
Dr. Seuss is associated with verse and prose for children, that doesn't quite apply here, the target audience is older adults in need of a bit of refreshing. I found this adventure through the medical maze enjoyable and plan on reading it again right before my next visit to learn the results of the latest sequence of medical tests.

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• ISBN13: 9780394551906
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You're Only Old Once! A Book for Obsolete Children Overview

Dr. Seuss lightens the aches and pains of growing old with his inimitable wit and wisdom. In this new defense against aging, we follow our hapless hero through his checkup with the experts at the Golden Years Clinic.

You're Only Old Once! A Book for Obsolete Children Specifications

Subtitled A Book for Obsolete Children, this unusual item in the Seuss canon doesn't really belong among the children's books. Written to celebrate the nonsense master's 82nd birthday, it follows "you" (an elderly gent in a suit and white moustache) through a physical check-up in some fiendish geriatric clinic. You are measured, prodded, and subjected to all the medical indignities familiar and unfamiliar to the elderly. "You must see Dr. Pollen, our Allergy Whiz, who knows every sniffle and itch that there is... He will check your reactions to thumbtacks and glue, catcher's mitts, leaf mould, and cardigans too. Nasturtiums and marble cake, white and blue chalks, anthracite coal and the feathers of hawks." It's clear that the process is going to be long, but much shorter than the bill. The blurb on the back says it all: "Is this a children's book? Well... not immediately. You buy a copy for your child now and you give it to him on his 70th birthday." Actually, it would make an amusing gift for anyone over 40. --Richard Farr

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The Angry Ones (Old School Books) Review

The Angry Ones (Old School Books) Overview

A powerful story of the hidden and unacknowledged racism that faces an uneducated black man in the professional world and the painful truths that warp interracial sex, The Angry Ones strips away the facade of hypocrisy and condescension from a lliberal and superficially hip society.

The Angry Ones (Old School Books) Specifications

Based on the author's own experiences as the publicity director for a vanity press, The Angry Ones chronicles the hidden and unacknowledged racism that he faced as an educated black man in the professional world. First published in 1960, this book stripped the facade of hypocrisy and condescension that was pervasive in the liberal, superficially hip societal circles of the era. Williams went on to have one of the most important postwar literary careers in the country, which included the publication of his classic 1967 bestseller, The Man Who Cried I Am.

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