He narrates his book with such ease of voice you feel like you are just listening to a friend talk. It’s as if he just called me on the phone and decided to tell me his stories. His flow while he narrates his book is flawless. The actor narrated Greenlights himself and hands down he has spoiled me for every other book I will ever listen to. I enjoyed the book so much, I ordered a hard copy as well. GreenlightsMatthew McConaughy5 Diamond Review□□□□□Greenlights, written by Matthew McConaughy is one of the best autobiographies I have ever read and listened to. Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2021 It’s also a guide to catching more greenlights - and to realizing that the yellows and reds eventually turn green, too. Hopefully, it’s medicine that tastes good, a couple of aspirin instead of the infirmary, a spaceship to Mars without needing your pilot’s license, going to church without having to be born again, and laughing through the tears. Getting away withs, getting caughts, and getting wets while trying to dance between the raindrops. Graces, truths, and beauties of brutality. This is fifty years of my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shamefuls. So I took a one-way ticket to the desert and wrote this book: an album, a record, a story of my life so far. I found a reliable theme, an approach to living that gave me more satisfaction, at the time, and still: If you know how, and when, to deal with life’s challenges - how to get relative with the inevitable - you can enjoy a state of success I call “catching greenlights.” I found stories I experienced, lessons I learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. Recently, I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. I’ve been in this life for 50 years, been trying to work out its riddle for 42, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last 35. “McConaughey’s book invites us to grapple with the lessons of his life as he did - and to see that the point was never to win, but to understand.” (Mark Manson, author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck ) Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The Guardian Number-one New York Times Best Seller Discover the life-changing memoir that has inspired millions of readers through the Academy Award-winning actor’s unflinching honesty, unconventional wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction.
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