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Hilarious (Guardian )
A comic genius (Independent )
Caustic, breakneck, tell-it-like-it-is ... He's a genuine populist; a twenty-first century pamphleteer (Observer )
Moore has mastered the rare trick of being passionate and funny at the same time (New Statesman )
Moore is a worldwide force ... a cultural icon (The Times )
Outstanding ... with the book's emotional highs and lows, and self-deprecating, empathetic style, Moore triumphs. ... enlightening, engaging, and occasionally enraging (Publisher's Weekly )
Here Comes Trouble is by far Mr. Moore's best book...[his] coming of age as a working-class malcontent is...something to behold. It's the story of a big lunk who learns to yoke his big mouth to a sense of purpose. It persuades you to take Mr. Moore seriously, and it belongs on a shelf with memoirs by, and books about, nonconformists like Mother Jones, Abbie Hoffman, Phil Ochs, Rachel Carson, Harvey Pekar and even Thomas Paine. (Dwight Garner New York Times )
A comic genius (Independent )
Caustic, breakneck, tell-it-like-it-is ... He's a genuine populist; a twenty-first century pamphleteer (Observer )
Moore has mastered the rare trick of being passionate and funny at the same time (New Statesman )
Moore is a worldwide force ... a cultural icon (The Times )
Outstanding ... with the book's emotional highs and lows, and self-deprecating, empathetic style, Moore triumphs. ... enlightening, engaging, and occasionally enraging (Publisher's Weekly )
Here Comes Trouble is by far Mr. Moore's best book...[his] coming of age as a working-class malcontent is...something to behold. It's the story of a big lunk who learns to yoke his big mouth to a sense of purpose. It persuades you to take Mr. Moore seriously, and it belongs on a shelf with memoirs by, and books about, nonconformists like Mother Jones, Abbie Hoffman, Phil Ochs, Rachel Carson, Harvey Pekar and even Thomas Paine. (Dwight Garner New York Times )
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Here Comes Trouble is Michael Moore's anti-memoir. Breaking the autobiographical mould, he hilariously presents twenty far-ranging, irreverent vignettes from his own life.
Moore is his own meta-Forrest Gump, as one moment he's an eleven-year old boy stuck on a Senate elevator with Bobby Kennedy, and the next moment he's inside the Bitburg cemetery with a dazed and confused Ronald Reagan. Changing planes in Vienna, he escapes death at the hands of the terrorist Abu Nidal (others weren't so lucky). He founded his first underground newspaper in fourth grade. He refused to be on the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite at sixteen ('There's not enough Clearasil in the world for that to happen'). And he became the youngest elected official in the country at age eighteen by enlisting an 'army of local stoners' who had no idea what they were doing as his campaign staff.
Before Michael Moore became the Oscar-winning filmmaker and all-round rabble rouser and thorn-in-the-side of corporate and right-wing America, there was the guy who had an uncanny knack of just showing up where history was being made. This book is a wild, revealing, take-no-prisoners ride through his early life. Alternately funny, eye-opening, and moving, this is a book Michael Moore has been writing - and living - for a very long time.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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I've watched all of Moore's films and have always followed his line of reasoning, I will flag at this point that I am a bit of a liberal so if you hold Charlton Heston or Reagan as your heroes, then this probably isn't the book for you.
Moore writes with great humour, intelligence, wit and, at times, poignancy. This is more essays about parts of his life that shaped him into the renowned film maker that he is and the friends/enemies he created along the way. I enjoyed this book so much (the writing style reminds me very much of Bill Bryson) that I read it cover to cover almost without pause.
A book that will entertain, challenge and if you're a free-market capitalist, quite possibly annoy. Much like Moore himself.
Moore writes with great humour, intelligence, wit and, at times, poignancy. This is more essays about parts of his life that shaped him into the renowned film maker that he is and the friends/enemies he created along the way. I enjoyed this book so much (the writing style reminds me very much of Bill Bryson) that I read it cover to cover almost without pause.
A book that will entertain, challenge and if you're a free-market capitalist, quite possibly annoy. Much like Moore himself.
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This is a really funny, moving and challenging book, filled with interesting short tales from Michael Moore's life, that leave you wondering what a difference we all could make if we just spoke out against the injustices that we see every day.
Each story gives you a little more understanding about how he became the man who challenged the system and made many friends and some powerful enemies. Sometimes I felt like he was beginning to blow his own trumpet or seek the sympathy vote but then he would qualify his position with heartfelt humility or dry humour.
I would recommend this book as it is very readable due to his writing style and its short story structure. But mainly because it makes you stop and look at yourself, and we could all do with a shake-up now and then to remind us that we are part of history in the making not just bystanders...
Each story gives you a little more understanding about how he became the man who challenged the system and made many friends and some powerful enemies. Sometimes I felt like he was beginning to blow his own trumpet or seek the sympathy vote but then he would qualify his position with heartfelt humility or dry humour.
I would recommend this book as it is very readable due to his writing style and its short story structure. But mainly because it makes you stop and look at yourself, and we could all do with a shake-up now and then to remind us that we are part of history in the making not just bystanders...
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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This is a fascinating, well written snapshot of the politicisation of Michael Moore. Not a linear autobiography, more a view of what shaped him in becoming a camapigner for justice, transparency and the rights of the little man and woman.
As another reviewer noted - this is Bill Bryson in style - witty, self-deprecating, articulate - but with added political awareneess. This book got teeth!
Moore may annoy some with his opinionated, forthright pronouncements (not me!) but until the wider world, political and corporate systems are run openly, transparently, with fairness, integrity, compassion for all as their agenda - we need the Michael Moores like we need clean air and unpolluted water. It was quite humbling to read how early Moore's kick-ass insistence on real fairness and justice began - and how one person, at the right moment, can have a huge and positive effect. Moore is not painting himself as some sort of amazing hero - what he is showing, in this book, is 'don't believe that your own single voice, taking a stand, is powerless' Not just standing up for the little man and woman, but showing how the little man himself (as he was, before he became powerful and MICHAEL MOORE) can make a real difference. This book basically says 'don't believe you are powerless. That's what the powerful want you to believe, so you think there is no point in challenging them'
A great read - educative AND entertaining
As another reviewer noted - this is Bill Bryson in style - witty, self-deprecating, articulate - but with added political awareneess. This book got teeth!
Moore may annoy some with his opinionated, forthright pronouncements (not me!) but until the wider world, political and corporate systems are run openly, transparently, with fairness, integrity, compassion for all as their agenda - we need the Michael Moores like we need clean air and unpolluted water. It was quite humbling to read how early Moore's kick-ass insistence on real fairness and justice began - and how one person, at the right moment, can have a huge and positive effect. Moore is not painting himself as some sort of amazing hero - what he is showing, in this book, is 'don't believe that your own single voice, taking a stand, is powerless' Not just standing up for the little man and woman, but showing how the little man himself (as he was, before he became powerful and MICHAEL MOORE) can make a real difference. This book basically says 'don't believe you are powerless. That's what the powerful want you to believe, so you think there is no point in challenging them'
A great read - educative AND entertaining
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Michael Moore is funny, bumptious, opinionated and passionate. If you liked his films then you will love this book. Read more
Published 28 days ago by Wynne Kelly
An astonishing man
I think we have to forgive him for being a bit too keen on seeing his minders see off would-be assailants. Read more
Published 29 days ago by Maclennane
Great Entertainment
He is famous for being controversial, so we tend to know who he is even if we haven't seen his films, it seems. Read more
Published 1 month ago by John Richard
Wonderful, entertaining read
In our daily lives, I am sure we have all come across injustices and outrages that we often wish we could so something about but usually feel either quite helpless to change or... Read more
Published 1 month ago by P. Baxter
Michael Moore the early years.
Most of us have seen film of Michael Moore on TV or his controversial movies. This book gives you stories from his childhood, which surprisingly have Michael Moore meeting US... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Steve Trumpet
A darker side of Americana
'Here Comes Trouble' is a definite evolution in Michale Moore's writing style. I have read a few of his previous books and while this one definitely has a political edge it is a... Read more
Published 2 months ago by C. Verspeak
If you've read this book then you are probably already a convert
I strongly suspect that the kind of person Moore takes his swipes at arent going to be rushing to read this. So essentially Moore is playing to a captive audience. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Mr. R. T. Bowes
Here comes trouble...
You either love or hate maverick film-maker Michael Moore, and if you fall into the "love" or even "quite-like" camp, you are likely to enjoy reading "Here Comes Trouble: Stories... Read more
Published 3 months ago by A. Kinson
Moore or less?
A good book overall, some remarkable chance events and encounters lay side by side with some less interesting reminisences from the early life of Michael Moore leading up to the... Read more
Published 3 months ago by All of them Witches
An absolute delight to read - what a fascinating life !
I have enjoyed Michael Moores films for many years and expected to hear about a hard upbringing that instilled he apparent compulsion for the truth. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Scott A. Mckenzie
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