Come back readers, to the great storytellers of old.
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What's not to like?  He was a master.  Look at the many movies made from his marvalous, timeless stories.
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What a wonderful book!  Full of old stories seen through different lenses.
A. Good gift book, or a wonderful addition for your own library.
2009774
As always, great reading. And if you are old enough, you will remember these events as they unfolded.
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Now that my children actually enjoy reading i decided to get them all of the old books i grew up on. They absolutely love them. They read them to their little sisters all the time. Being back a lot of memories. The quality is really good too.
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I read and enjoyed your book some time ago. It was fun to read something written by someone my own age so I could appreciate the allusions. Making associations with the past we knew is a pleasure.

I loved your naturally fluid writing style. The literary device I most enjoyed was the use of the leit motif of the wind that opened several of your chapters. The writing made it a very good book about a very good life.
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Great story as all of yours are.  They are best appreciated by an old soldier like me.  Thanks very much
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So happy to be with these creatures again. A great read! Great to revisit these people and places. I love this book
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The book is so nice to read, it's like hearing grandma or grandpa telling a story to the kids. Love it.
4006314
An engrossing story worth every bit of the learning-to-read-all-over-again experience--in fact, it brings back the magic of reading.
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My wife and I loved the stories. Then we gave them to our grandchildren.
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Were you ever fortunate enough to spend an evening in a pub listening to the old guy with a backlog of stories as bottomless as his appetite for Guinness?  Relive, or enjoy for the first time, that experience with Patrick E McLean's "Stories I Told Myself".  These are tales as rich, lovingly related and "true" as any ever told by candlelight, hearth or drink.

It is clear that Mr. McLean crafts stories with a care for the reader.  He may have something he wants to say, but it seems to me he really has something he wants you to hear.  He chooses words, sculpts phrases and molds characters for the enjoyment of the reader.  This is a book written by someone clearly in love with the English language and storytelling, if not actual spelling and punctuation.

You will find yourself looking for someone to have the same experience that you do. These are stories to enjoy, to share and to revisit.  I originally heard them in Mr. McLean's own voice on 'The Seanachai' with my wife and kids.  His stories are still a touchstone for us.  His cadence and smooth voice are still in my head as I re-read Candy, Bright-lights and Driver's Re-Education.

Slainte!
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This is a book to be readed with the previous knowledge that the central personage will die, not as a result of age, in every narrated "life". This knowledge does not reduce the interest and pleasure of reading the stories.
2578436
I enjoy stories I grew up with. I collect the older books whenever I can. I look forward to sharing them with younger kids in my family.
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I'm retired, have been enjoying it since I was about 7. My grandmother read and kept them. I Loved reading it, so many enjoyable stories, humorous sections.and  Interesting tidbits. Have been ordering Readers Digest all my adult life.
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This is a good old story.  You get a peek into the past, how they lived and some of there attitudes.  Its very  uplifting, through hardships they keep a good attitude and end up all right in the end.  This is a wonderful book, that I will be reading to my family for family read aloud time.  It makes you yearn for a simpler life. :)  (with modern day pluming .... I am not ready to give that up yet)

I do suggest when you come to new words or phrases, look them up on line.  Some phrases we say today have changed meanings in the last century.  (at one point it says a little girl french kisses a friend of the family's - I am pretty sure that means a peck on one cheek and then a peck on the other cheek)  And they talk about poems and books we might not have heard of.  Stop and learn about them.  Its great fun getting lost in the past.
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Amazing stories from many generations. Herbert Ausubel is a great storyteller, and has kept me entertained from beginning to end.
These stories would make a great mini series as well!
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You don't have to be a baby boomer to appreciate the sweetness of the stories in this book. These tales are part of the larger tapestry that we as humans experience in our lives.