Greenlights / Matthew McConaughey.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593139134
- ISBN: 0593139135
- Physical Description: 289 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Crown, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2020]
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Outlaw logic -- Finding your frequency -- Dirt reads and autobahns -- The art of running downhill -- Turn the page -- The arrow doesn't seek the target, the target draws the arrow -- Be brave, take the hill -- Live your legacy now. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | McConaughey, Matthew, 1969- McConaughey, Matthew, 1969- > Philosophy. Motion picture actors and actresses > United States > Biography. Conduct of life. Autobiographies. |
Genre: | Biographies. Personal narratives. Diaries. |
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Webb City Public Library | 793.43 McConaughey, Matthew (Text) | 38262300006007 | Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |
Adair County Public Library | A B McConaughey (Text) | 34029002552817 | Biography | Available | - |
Albany Carnegie Public Library | BIO MCC (Text) | 35615010036725 | Biographies | Available | - |
Barry Lawrence - Mt. Vernon Library | B MCC (Text) | 37884102900341 | Biography | Available | - |
Bollinger County Library | B MCC (Text) | 32713200012908 | Biography | Checked out | 05/16/2024 |
Brookfield Public Library | 791.43 B MCCONAUGHEY (Text) | 32512909408631 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Camden County Library District - Stoutland | 791.4302 McConaughey (Text) | 31320003767089 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Camden County Library District - Sunrise Beach | 791.4302 McConaughey (Text) | 31320003763203 | Adult Nonfiction | Checked out | 05/06/2024 |
Cape Girardeau Public Library | MCC (Text) | 33042004717867 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
Carrollton Public Library | 791.4302 MCC (Text) | 30183000055466 | Adult Non Fiction | Available | - |
Kirkus Review
Greenlights
Kirkus Reviews
Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
All right, all right, all right: The affable, laconic actor delivers a combination of memoir and self-help book. "This is an approach book," writes McConaughey, adding that it contains "philosophies that can be objectively understood, and if you choose, subjectively adopted, by either changing your reality, or changing how you see it. This is a playbook, based on adventures in my life." Some of those philosophies come in the form of apothegms: "When you can design your own weather, blow in the breeze"; "Simplify, focus, conserve to liberate." Others come in the form of sometimes rambling stories that never take the shortest route from point A to point B, as when he recounts a dream-spurred, challenging visit to the Malian musician Ali Farka Touré, who offered a significant lesson in how disagreement can be expressed politely and without rancor. Fans of McConaughey will enjoy his memories--which line up squarely with other accounts in Melissa Maerz's recent oral history, Alright, Alright, Alright--of his debut in Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused, to which he contributed not just that signature phrase, but also a kind of too-cool-for-school hipness that dissolves a bit upon realizing that he's an older guy on the prowl for teenage girls. McConaughey's prep to settle into the role of Wooderson involved inhabiting the mind of a dude who digs cars, rock 'n' roll, and "chicks," and he ran with it, reminding readers that the film originally had only three scripted scenes for his character. The lesson: "Do one thing well, then another. Once, then once more." It's clear that the author is a thoughtful man, even an intellectual of sorts, though without the earnestness of Ethan Hawke or James Franco. Though some of the sentiments are greeting card--ish, this book is entertaining and full of good lessons. A conversational, pleasurable look into McConaughey's life and thought. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.