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Here Comes Trouble
Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life | Michael Moore
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Michael Moore-Oscar-winning filmmaker, bestselling author, and the nation's official provocateur laureate-is back, this time taking on an entirely new role, that of his own meta-Forrest Gump. Smashing the autobiographical mold, Moore presents twenty-four far-ranging, irreverent, and stranger-than-fiction vignettes from his own early life. One moment he's an eleven-year-old boy lost in the U.S. Senate and found by Bobby Kennedy; and in the next, he's inside the Bitburg cemetery with a dazed and confused Ronald Reagan. Fast-forwarding to 2003, he stuns the world from the Oscar stage by uttering the words "We live in fictitious times . . . with a fictitious president" in place of the usual "I'd like to thank the Academy." And none of that even comes close to the night the friendly priest at the seminary decides to show him how to perform his own exorcism. Capturing the zeitgeist of the past fifty years, yet deeply personal and unflinchingly honest, HERE COMES TROUBLE takes readers on an unforgettable, take-no-prisoners ride through the life and times of Michael Moore. Alternately funny, eye-opening, and moving, it's the book he has been writing-and living-his entire life.
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InkyQuillwarts
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Small acts of rebellion.

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InkyQuillwarts
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This.

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KafkaKitten
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I was hoping we would learn from Brexit and other political messes going on around the world right now, but I was wrong. I just turned 21 so this was my first time voting for president. So sad it had to end this way. I can only hope the world pulls together and unifies against this man's open racism, misogyny, and severe nationalism. Let's learn from it this time.

Nebklvr I'm so very sorry we failed you. However, we will need your strength and intelligence to fight. Stay tuned. 7y
Bette I thought Brexit would be a warning as well. Don't lose faith. We move forward in different ways. 💙 7y
Erik_The_Read Read "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn 7y
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Moore is better known for Bowling for Columbine and Where to Invade Next, but I liked this 'memoir' (he says it's not a memoir) even more than his documentaries. Does he have a crazy gift for being at some fairly significant moments in history, or is he simply brave enough to seek out what is worth fighting?? Moore's way of explaining why the middle class is disappearing is one of the best/most entertaining I've read 😀