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The All Important, Well-Fed, Giant White Man: A memoir.

by Dan Pearce (Goodreads Author)

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Mike said: " I just finished reading, The All-important, Well-Fed, Giant White Man by Dan Pearce. Told in a series of vignettes that cover everything from early childhood silly mistakes, to full on adult serious mistakes and decisions that he got right. The book I just finished reading, The All-important, Well-Fed, Giant White Man by Dan Pearce. Told in a series of vignettes that cover everything from early childhood silly mistakes, to full on adult serious mistakes and decisions that he got right. The book is an easy read and its well worth the time it takes to read through.
From the first story about his life Dan Pearce lets you in and tries to hold you with humor and a lot of self-deprecation and it usually works. You’ll find out how one man can look back on his life and see the mistakes he made and admit to them without blaming anyone else. You’ll enjoy the sometimes gross humor of things like nearly tearing off a nipple, and the celebrity a teenaged boy gets from that. You’ll learn about first kisses and fail romances, as well as failed marriages and find that religion doesn’t have every answer for most of us and being totally OK with that.
Much like his blog, Single Dad Laughing, Dan Pearce gives you insight to his failed college career, failed Mormon Missionary work, and the joy of holding his son for the first time. We find out that you can raise your child differently than your parents raised you and it can still turn out just fine. Even if it involves your child saying shit a lot and not losing your mind over it.
It doesn’t always end well for our fearless author and he’s OK with that and you should be OK with it too because life is messy, people lie, people lie to themselves, and people get caught in those lies. Good humans admit to the lies and find a way to move on hopefully while learning to be better humans in the process.
Pick up this book and you’ll learn something about Dan and his life. You’ll learn about being happy and sad. You’ll learn a bit about how you exist as a person who rejects a church that rejected him and still manages to be the kind of person any of us would be hay to know and have as a friend. At the end of the book you just may find out a little about yourself and how the decisions and mistakes you make shape you and why its important to admit to yourself your foibles, your fears, and the best parts of yourself and why you should take that out into the world and be the best self you could ever be.
People with mustaches will be offended by this book due to Dan’s fear of them even though he’s growing a full beard mustache combo. I gather though, you could either hug or tickle him out of his world view. ...more "

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"I just finished reading, The All-important, Well-Fed, Giant White Man by Dan Pearce." — Nov 30, 2015 03:49AM

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