Bill O'Reilly - A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity: A Memoir Reviews

A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity was a book that my parents gave the in-laws as a Christmas gift.

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My in-laws and my parents are ultimately the same people, just in different bodies. They share the same political views, religious beliefs, and basic everyday likes and dislikes. Ultimately though, had I not married my husband, they would have never met.

When my parents came to visit for Thanksgiving they got to have a longer visit with the people they were now related to, but haven't seen since the August wedding. It went beautifully. Dads talking shop, and moms planning a trip to the local...

As an avid listener of books on tape, I've adopted several favorites when it comes to narrators. Sometimes the biggest mistake an author can make is when he or she decides to narrate their own work. Narrating books is a true art and books can lose or gain stars simply because of the ability of the narrator. That wasn't a problem with A Bold Fresh Piece of Reality. You wouldn't want to hear anyone but O'Reilly narrate this work. O'Reilly even sounds a little bit like George Carlin in this one. This is especially true in the chapter on things he doesn't understand. Having grown up in a similar time,...

This book "Bold , Fresh picie of Humanity" is about Bill O' Reilly's childhood in Levittown,New York, but many things he did in his school and neighborhood are typical of many people's childhoods, at least before parents had to constantly worry about their kids being abused if they stayed from home playing. Maybe I can relate to it well  because I went to Catholic school, but I thought the funniest part is when he talks about a friend, Clement and him wreaking havoc on a school outing to see the movie "song of Bernadette, in 1961 or 62? It's a shame his friend died. At a reunion in 1988, the...