
Point to Point Navigation
A Memoir
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Gore Vidal
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Gore Vidal
In the Navy during World War II, Vidal was forced to use point to point navigation whenever compasses failed. It is an apt analogy for his life, which has been filled with glorious triumphs as well as spectacular controversies. Never afraid to enter uncharted waters, Vidal has had relationships with innumerable luminaries, including President Kennedy, Tennessee Williams, Eleanor Roosevelt, Orson Welles, Greta Garbo, and others.
Thoroughly engaging and, of course, provocative, Point to Point Navigation is the fascinating story of an American icon. Vidal himself narrates this memoir, intimately sharing the stories of his own life.
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"In short, the memoir is a perfect encapsulation of Vidal's outsized personality." (Booklist)
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A very articulate autobiography/memoir
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Fascinating anecdotes from a master storyteller
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There is much to be learned from this too soon ended short account of a remarkable life.
Brilliant
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In this volume the memories are running thin and they threaten to get maudlin. The lingering illness and death of Vidal's life-partner Howard Auster is a poignant tale, told with excellent reserve and no soppiness, but it does leave a big black cloud over the whole book.
On the other hand, we've got Gore Vidal himself reading the thing in his Mandarin drawl, and that blots out a multitude of sins. Gore revisits some of the favorites from the earlier memoir--Jack and Jackie, Tennessee Williams, his parents, Amelia Earhart--and brings them to life like Dickens giving a final-tour reading.
Digressive, like an old man's reveries
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This is a quick, easy listen. Still, it is a little disappointing. For me, I know Vidal best from his contretemps with William F. Buckley and Norman Mailer. None of that is covered here. And it ends not with his thoughts on life's meaning, but his views on the Kennedy assassination.
A Brisk Summing Up of One's Life
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Tongue in cheek
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Depression made manifest
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Highly recommended
Excellent and insightful memoir
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In the way only a true intellectual could.
What America is missing
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