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All the Wrong Places

A Life Lost and Found

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All the Wrong Places

By: Phillip Connors
Narrated by: Adam Verner
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Philip Connors' Fire Season, an account of the decade he spent working in a fire-lookout tower high above the remotest part of New Mexico, won the Banff Mountain Book Grand Prize and the Reading the West Book Award, and Amazon named it the Best Nature Book of the Year. Now Connors returns with the story of what drove him up to the tower in the first place: the wilderness years he spent reeling in the wake of a family tragedy. This is an unforgettable account of grappling with a shattered sense of purpose, from his family's failing pig farm in Minnesota to a crack-addled Brooklyn neighborhood to the mountains of New Mexico, where he puts the pieces of his life back together. Like Cheryl Strayed's Wild, this is a finely wrought look back at wayward youth - and a redemptive story about discovering one’s place in the world.

©2015 Published by arrangement with W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. (P)2015 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

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"The story of All the Wrong Places is a moving one, but it's Connors' artistry that makes it transcendent." (Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask)
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A poignant memoir of author's search for the sense of his brother's suicide. If there's a better description of the grief suffered, of the need to understand, of the empty place in the soul that one tries to, but can never, fill after the loss of a family member to suicide, I'm not sure I want to read it.

Mr. Connors provides a vivid and moving account of how he could not move past his younger brother's suicide until he had followed all traces of the moments and days leading up to the gunshot wound to the temple, until he spoke to others who had talked to his brother, before he could track down photos and an autopsy report. In short, the author had to satisfy himself that there were some things he would not know, could not know. When he came to grips with this fact and to a peace within, he was finally (but not fully) freed of the constant thoughts, guilt and the feelings of emptiness within himself.

The things Connors did, the places he worked and the people he met, all on his journey to peace and self-revelation, add up to make this a memoir a rewarding read/listen.

The narrator did an admirable job.

Search 4 Sense n Bro's Suicide--Moving Memoir

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While I found this book searching for a book about through hiking the PCT, it wasn't what I expected. I listened anyway. The story is great, focusing on the author's brother. If you have ever had to deal with suicide, this book provides some solace and insight.

Well written

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A touching story of true unconditional love and the courage to express that love. Thank you Phillip for giving me a life changing gift! I love you .

Courage to love

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In sharing intimate details of his life during the years following his brother's suicide, the author illuminates larger truths that are alternately profound, funny, intense, and embarrassing. I'm changed after listening. When this book first came out, I couldn't believe the timing; i'd just lost my own younger brother to suicide by gunshot in NM. But it took me going-on 10 years to finally feel up to listening. Some portions of the author's experience feel unbelievably familiar while others are just the opposite. It's the rawness of the telling that makes this book so special to me. Thank you.

Funny, Sad, Real

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Like listening to an old friend's personal life story about loss with intense honesty and transparency, while in the confidential privacy of a fire watch tower.

Searching for Home when Out Past the Edges

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I dont usually write reviews, I feel like we al have different opinions and I keep mine to myself. I also don't read reviews. When I bought this book I was really looking for something completely different. But it was too late so I looked at the first review and thought well this will be a shit show. I started the book and was so impressed by the narration and the feelings that came through his reading. The story is so real and brought up feelings about my own loss. Well done! and Thank you for your gift of writing.

Fantastic

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I was pretty disappointed with this book. The description of the book is nearly false. While the book is well written, and discusses a POV from a person who experienced an unexpected loss in the family, there is more about sex in this book than a horribly written edition of Playboy magazine. Just, not what I was expecting.

Soft core porn

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,I kept waiting for it to hold my interest and it never did! I don't know whether it was the narrator or what but it just seemed to blah to keep on after an hour or so of listening.

Nope!

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this book is not about fire tower look outs in any way, during the reading you have about 1 hour at most that he talks about being a fire tower look out. he doesn't even mention fire tower until 20 minutes into chapter 7 more then 3/4 of the way threw. I wouldn't waste your time with this if you are looking to hear about fire towers.

real description of this book should be
young man works in a news paper company while trying to deal with the suicide of his brother, and the loneliness of living in New York city.

if that sounds interesting to you then this book is perfect for you and is well written for that, however the writer does expand to much on a lot of descriptions going into detail that makes it seem like a student is trying to throw extra words into an essay to meet their word count. painting a picture is fine but telling me what each hair did on each brush stroke, I don't need that much detail.

not what the decryption said

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Not much to say....a story I was looking forward to, but couldn't get past the beginning...worst narrator I've heard in a while! It never ceases to amaze me how these horrible narrators are picked to read anything! Speed talking with absolutely no inflection in his voice ever. It's reall too bad for the author.

Horrible narration!!

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