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Try Nothing Twice: The Story of Two Dozen Jobs
Try Nothing Twice is a cheerful and courageous tale told with the gusto and good-humour that make all Frank Clune's work so congenial to readers with a zest for life. It is a book for the young in heart and the haters of sham.
Try Anything Once was only a brief narrative, mentioning some highlights - and lowlights - of my forty years of existence. No sooner was it printed than i remembered a lot more things I should have included. Hence this book, Try Nothing Twice. It contains yarns that I had forgotten to mention before. It's an afterthought. Better late than never, let's hope.
Try Anything Once was only a brief narrative, mentioning some highlights - and lowlights - of my forty years of existence. No sooner was it printed than i remembered a lot more things I should have included. Hence this book, Try Nothing Twice. It contains yarns that I had forgotten to mention before. It's an afterthought. Better late than never, let's hope.
177 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1946
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Frank Clune
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December 25, 2019
This was a bit disappointing to be honest. As a second autobiography, after the first book Clune wrote - Try Anything Once, I had expected it to cover new ground, whereas most of this book is a rehash.
From the first page, it was all familiar, each job and each anecdote. I resorted to looking at the cover and the cover page several times, convinced I had a copy of a misprinted Try Anything Once, as it was all familiar. I struggled to pick out new tales - there were a handful, and some of the previous tales had been expanded a bit. Ironically, the book ends before the previous autobiography did! This one ends as he leaves the German ships, heading north through France to Belgium - just prior to the war.
Fundamentally, I don't really understand why Clune wrote it. It was written in 1946, some 12 years after the first, when he was pumping out books at a prodigious rate (7 published in 1945, this and two others in 1946, 2 in 1947 and 5 in 1948, etc). Perhaps this was just a filler book. I would have thought it would only detract from his reputation - It was certainly disappointing for me.
Read alone, it was probably 4 stars, but having read his earlier book, 2.5 stars, rounded down.
From the first page, it was all familiar, each job and each anecdote. I resorted to looking at the cover and the cover page several times, convinced I had a copy of a misprinted Try Anything Once, as it was all familiar. I struggled to pick out new tales - there were a handful, and some of the previous tales had been expanded a bit. Ironically, the book ends before the previous autobiography did! This one ends as he leaves the German ships, heading north through France to Belgium - just prior to the war.
Fundamentally, I don't really understand why Clune wrote it. It was written in 1946, some 12 years after the first, when he was pumping out books at a prodigious rate (7 published in 1945, this and two others in 1946, 2 in 1947 and 5 in 1948, etc). Perhaps this was just a filler book. I would have thought it would only detract from his reputation - It was certainly disappointing for me.
Read alone, it was probably 4 stars, but having read his earlier book, 2.5 stars, rounded down.
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