Beautifully Unique Sparkleponies: On Myths, Morons, Free Speech, Football, and Assorted Absurdities
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (577 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00D8JU7P8 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 315 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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Gay marriage. Futuristic goggles that DO NOTHING. "Hi. I also give my own funeral eulogy, in case you were hoping I'd go away and die now! "So please, join me in the glorious art of windmill tilting by reading this 'collection of rousing, uncensored personal essays, letters, and stories' (I have no idea why that's in quotes). In your hands, right now, you hold the culmination of thousands of years of human intelligence, ingenuity, and brilliance. "Join the herd of Beautifully Unique Sparkleponies."(You know you want to.)". "What is in my book, you ask? (I'm really glad you asked, by the way, because now I get to tell you.) "Time travel. "Tiny brags from my publisher, stuff like: 'This is an uproarious, uncensored take on empathy, personal responsibility, and what it means to be human.' "Excessive brags about myself: 'An extraordinarily clever, punishingly funny, sharp-tongued blogosphere star, NFL player, husband and father, one-time violin prodigy, voracious lifetime reader, obsessive gamer, and fearless champion of personal freedom.' "Oh, and also an essay on the Pope's Twitter account. Sportsballing. Honestly, if that doesn't draw you in, there's no hope left for humanity. Now put your goddamn phone down and pay attention to my book
"Sparkles brighter than most" according to NorthShore. I have to admit, I was skeptical. I loved following Chris' boisterous antics and "free-speech-athon" over the last few years, especially as he became one of the few advocates of marriage equality in ACTIVE professional sports - but in the back of my mind I wondered whether he could coherently bring together that sense of brash honesty in something longer than a blog entry.He brought it. Spectacularly. His book, Beautifully Unique Sparkleponies: . Wasn't for me. I wanted to like this book. Kluwe seems like an intelligent guy. But I just couldn't get through this. Something about his writing style put me off. Maybe, at the bottom of it, I just don't care enough about football as a sport or social construct to read a book like this.. Karie Hoskins said Funny and Powerful and Very Well Written. I was fortunate enough to get the chance to hear Chris Kluwe speak at a local community college last month and this book is like the written version of his talk that night. He was asked about everything from football to politics to video games to music that “little old ladies” would like to the nature of dualism to curing depression. He fielded (!) all of those questions masterfully – so when he mentioned he had a book coming o