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| What now? | 
 enlarge | Author: Ann Patchett
Publisher: Harper
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 16012
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 112
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 4.9 x 0.7
ISBN: 0061340650
Dewey Decimal Number: 158.1
EAN: 9780061340659
ASIN: 0061340650
Publication Date: May 1, 2008
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 Nice graduation present May 18, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I like the way it addresses in a reassuring way the frustration and pressure a graduate feels when they're bombarded with well-meaning peoples unending questions; where are you going to college, what are you going to do now? blah, blah, blah -- A cool book. Bought it for my cool daughter !
 Thoughtful, but not as resonating as it should be July 9, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
"What now?" is the extended version of Ann Patchett's graduation speech at Sarah Lawrence College. In a nutshell, Patchett uses her life story to make the slightly overmade point that we should embrace the uncertainty and change we face. Patchett's points are original enough--they are a bit cliched, but they are put here in poignant form, as Patchett is a master at language. But as with Patchett's fiction, she dots around beautifully for many pages, but never really settles down with some great conclusion or moral. Thus, the book ends up feeling very thin. That's partially because it is thin--only 97 small pages, with oversized font. But it also is heavy on the details of her life journeys and very light on the meaning of it. In a book that's supposedly inspirational, I would've liked to have been inspired more. I don't really a care about every little step along her way.
I'm sure it was a great graduation speech. It's a great coffee table book. But it's not a book to live your life by.
 Nothin Comes From Nothin August 4, 2008
1 out of 10 found this review helpful
Somebody gave this to me. I have been down on my back for a month or so - lost my jobs - i had a few and have been struggling to make ends meet so my sponser haned this to me casue she thought it woudl make me feel better. my whole life people have tried to help me by handing me books and gicving me lectures but no one ever relaly gives me the help i need - i need money and a job and a way to lose the weight and stay off disability and then here comes some succesful lady tellin me to make choices and hang in there and anything I want i can have as long as i listen to the news and get out there and get it done - but no one thigks about folks like me - I was abused every second of my life since I was a kid - by priests and teachers and the system everybody takin a piece from tonya wantin something for nothin - I was on drugs and sold myself for nothin but I got wise - i had to run away from a man - and then I had to get lots of different jobs to help my kids who don;t even speak to me anymore - but I stayed the course and tried to be string . but I give up when everyone I know accuse me of stealing from them - at jobs - I closed up one night and forgot to take the deposit to a bank so all of a sudden I am in jail for the 5th time and nobody cares. So this lady cna wriote her book and talk to the young ladies at some fancy school but here in the projects i am keepin it real and trying to live another day without getting readdicted to painkillers and tryin to look for a job when nobody wants me - so keep on talkin ann - the people who really need help dont go to soome fancy school - an if you saw me on the street - with my walker and my oxygen - i know you'd walk on past
Just too good April 23, 2008
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
You will want to keep the book eventhough you already got a free read at the bookstore, cause that's what I did :-)
Good book for the graduate May 29, 2008
This is a highly recommended book by librarians for the upcoming graduate. I purchased it for my daughter who is set to graduate soon in hopes of it building the courage in her to continue to move forward and set her next life goals. This is a great read for those who are enbarking on their next adventure in life-the work force-especially in todays world.
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