Silk Parachute
Written by John McPhee
Narrated by John McPhee
3.5/5
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John McPhee
John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. Also in 1965, he published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the years since, he has written over 30 books, including Oranges (1967), Coming into the Country (1977), The Control of Nature (1989), The Founding Fish (2002), Uncommon Carriers (2007), and Silk Parachute (2011). Encounters with the Archdruid (1972) and The Curve of Binding Energy (1974) were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science. McPhee received the Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977. In 1999, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Great Cover Photo!Collection felt uneven, with Parachute game a lot of fun,then veering into mostly boring Chalk until Champagne and Veuve Cliquot are reached.Lacrosse is only for true fans, while "Under the Cloth" was too repetitive.Then came "My Life List" > agog with disgusting overBEARing MEAT and dying animals,followed by the horror of The Manhattan Project.Checkpoints at last added some fun again, with "Rip Van Golfer" the best of the whole lot.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This latest collection of essays by New Yorker staff writer John McPhee is also his most autobiographical. I can't say I liked the subjects of all the essays. The one on lacrosse started to get a bit tiresome and McPhee writes more about geology than I like to read, but I always still with him because the man can write! If even a quarter of those blogging out there would stop long enough to read a good dose of McPhee's prose the world would be a better place.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5A series of essays by John McPhee. There are some occasional insights, but one is left with the impression that this venerable writer should retire.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5McPhee has the knack of taking a subject you might have no interest in, and then through the careful buildup of facts, characters, and clean, lucid prose, he has you captivated. Here, McPhee achieves his usual excellence with essays on diverse subjects ranging from canoeing to Lacrosse.. He does appear to include more autobiographical references - indeed, I am hard pressed to recall any in his earlier works. His essay on Lacrosse did drag for me at times. This, however, is minor criticism. Whenever, I am mentoring young attorneys with respect to their writing skills, I always recommend they read McPhee. To become a good writer, you need to read good writing. McPhee is good writing.