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A Bold Fresh Piece Of Humanity (2008)

by Bill O'Reilly(Favorite Author)

3.91 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0767928822 (ISBN13: 9780767928823)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Broadway Books

review 1: I literally picked this book up at a severely reduced rate when Border’s was going out of business. I’m glad I did not spend more – and probably would not have read it otherwise. I have grown - not to be a huge fan of O’Reilly (after watching his show through the years) – I think he is a bit of a mouthpiece and tries to play the “center” card – when he is really far right. Not to mention – it’s annoying to listen to someone talk over people all the time. So I ask myself why I read this again? I guess to be fair and balanced? There was really nothing worthwhile in this book. Sure – some points of reference during his childhood have a bit of positive impression – but they are sort of self-serving on why Bill is smarter and better than you and I – as... more opposed to truly teaching a moral or some social guiding point (so in essence – he missed a good opportunity there). Beyond that – the book is just a lot of ranting and haphazard movement to different points or topics – often drifting on a clear reason. He tries to be savvy (or maybe funny) and tie in some pop culture – which is beyond boring. I could care less about his story of vacationing and friendships with past college buddies - only he knows (or would care to know). The whole thing is sloppy – like Bill woke up and thought it clever to divulge his personal accounts at random – similar to a narcissistic social media blow by blow. When you consider his branching to attempt historical books – I cringe. I hope some of you proceed with caution.
review 2: I bought and read Bill O’Reilly’s latest book, “Bold, Fresh Piece of Humanity.” It’s an entertaining book. He claims he’s an independent thinker but most of his personal philosophies are, as he says, the result of his past experiences, which align pretty closely to the conservative viewpoint, which is what dominated his early childhood in Levittown, NY, which was predominately conservative and strictly Catholic, the religious right. He talks a lot about the liberal ideology being based upon people who want to feel noble and good about themselves so their policies, he believes, are designed to accomplish that by attempting to help the poor through various social programs. O’Reilly believes in being self-reliant, getting educated, learning a skill, and being a productive citizen of society. He doesn’t believe in the “nanny state” as he calls it wherein liberals would have it that the government takes care of all of the needs of its citizens. He blames the liberal philosophies that dominated in the late 1960s for the denegration of the family unit. He says that liberal attitudes resulting in behaviors like wedlock and living-together became widespread and widely accepted and challenged the traditional family unit. He says that single-mother families are the primary reason for poverty in the country and that people have children without having the ability to pay for and raise them. His experiences growing up in Catholic schools, his brief experience as a teacher in Florida, and regular escapades with his old cronies from Catholic school and college to Cancun, water rafting in Colorado, and St. Brigid school reunions are entertaining personal stories. Finally, his seemingly spontaneous encounters with high-profile people like Don Shula in 1972 while he was teaching in Florida when the Dolphins had their perfect season, seemingly coincidental meeting and acquaintance with Peter Jennings, and private luncheon with President Bush among other high-profile people, his tone of elated bewilderment and amazement of this journey struck me somewhat similar to the Forrest Gump story, a parallel I find a bit humorous. less

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