  Jerome81 Member Username: Jerome81 Post Number: 1234 Registered: 11-2003 |
This is the memoir by Paul Clemens. Got 1 chapter left and I actually really liked this book. I think it has, at a minimum, helped me to see the picture a little differently. To better understand a different perspective that I either didn't think about or kinda poo-poo'd in the past. Anyway, I would recommend it. It didn't seem to quite keep it up all the way to the end, but worthwhile I think. Curious if anyone else here has read it. | ||
Kathleen Member Username: Kathleen Post Number: 1839 Registered: 10-2003 |
Some previous discussion on the Forum about this book: https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/62684/64253.html https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/62684/66703.html There are a few additional mentions in other threads as well, which can be located using the Search function on the left nav bar. | ||
Ordinary Member Username: Ordinary Post Number: 99 Registered: 06-2006 |
I read the book last X-mas. I think it was mostly a tribute to his father. I remember feeling kind of disappointed/dissatisfied. I agree with Tweed's post on the first forum that Kathleen posted. He seemed too self absorbed. | ||
Wash_man Member Username: Wash_man Post Number: 262 Registered: 05-2006 |
I got over half way through and never finished. Lost interest. | ||
Bob Member Username: Bob Post Number: 1291 Registered: 11-2003 |
He is a little self-obsessed, but I think the book does give a very real view of how Detroit became the way it is. We may not agree with it, but it tell what the mind-set was of a lot of people of the time. | ||
Jjw Member Username: Jjw Post Number: 219 Registered: 10-2005 |
The book was mundane. I was very disappointed with it's lack of substance. | ||
Esp Member Username: Esp Post Number: 16 Registered: 09-2005 |
I believe some people on this forum could write a more interesting book about growing up in Detroit. | ||
Patrick Member Username: Patrick Post Number: 3839 Registered: 10-2003 |
I liked it since my family lived in that area and I am familiar with everything. Had it been on the west side, I would have stopped after the first page. I didnt complete it either. | ||
Karl Member Username: Karl Post Number: 5623 Registered: 09-2005 |
I endured it to the very end. I was intrigued by his rather liberal viewpoints being tortured by the very real decline/demise/destruction of the neighborhood/city/church of his youth. In the end, while it isn't completely clear where he fled, it is obvious he no longer resides in the COD. I would guess Kalamazoo or Grand Rapids (I seem to recall he refers to the "western" side of the state) | ||
Bob Member Username: Bob Post Number: 1293 Registered: 11-2003 |
I will have to read it again. I thought in the end he lived on the East Side by Alter Road after moving back from college. | ||
Supersport Member Username: Supersport Post Number: 11084 Registered: 10-2003 |
I just read it a few weeks back, I don't believe he says where he lives by the end of the book, aside from it being a bordering suburb to the city. | ||
E_hemingway Member Username: E_hemingway Post Number: 1010 Registered: 11-2004 |
There was an Hour Detroit story about the author last year. If I remember correctly it mentioned that he now lives in one of the pointes. | ||
Beadgrl Member Username: Beadgrl Post Number: 100 Registered: 07-2006 |
I prefer true crime Detroit books to books like this one. Read Masquerade by Lowell Cauffiel for an interesting Detroit story. |
