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Losing Mum And Pup (2009)

by Christopher Buckley(Favorite Author)

3.81 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0446540943 (ISBN13: 9780446540940)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Twelve

review 1: The Buckleys live in a whole different world than most of the rest of us. Theirs is a world of fame, privilege, power, intellect, and -- oh, heavens, how I envy them -- a world of big words! (When I speak like they do in my world, I am mocked, albeit gently.) I'd like to say listening to this book was delightful, but it seems wrong to characterize a memoir about the death of two beloved, complex parents as "delightful." In the beginning of the memoir, Christo (the author's family nickname) writes that his parents were extraordinary people -- "bigger than life," and admits to a degree of bias. However, after learning just snippets of their lives, I am inclined to agree. Everything these two did and said was something that normal mortals simply could not get away with in our... more lives. They were brilliant, charming, funny, and yet could also be totally irresponsible, irksome, and sometimes downright rude. Ostensibly, this is a story of one man's experience in becoming an orphan, and coming to terms with complex filial relationships, but in reality, it is just a tease of a biography of two fascinating humans, about whom I'm dying (no pun intended!) to know more. It is an excellent listen for a commute. The author reads his own words (which, when done well, is always my preference for memoirs) and has a mellifluous voice with just a hint of pretension, which I believe adds dramatically to the setting.
review 2: How odd it must be to live in the rarefied atmosphere in which Christopher Buckley was raised. His parents' deaths occurred within a brief span of time, and both were mourned by many famous personalities—that tends to give the book a feeling of name dropping, but I suppose the story isn't complete without including all the relevant people. Christo had a remarkable life with this large personalities, and his grief is very evident in the telling. I don't think I have mourned my father quite as effectively as he has mourned his. less

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