Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself

Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself - Alan Alda; 611 pages


I did not like this book. At all. It wasn't all commencement speeches, but there sure were a lot of them. It has been over 5 years since I read Alda's other memoir, Never Have Your Dog Stuffed, but I do remember really liking that book. This one just seems like the leftover. The stories that weren't good enough to get into the last book, speeches to make the book longer, and anecdotes to make the speeches seem to fit into the story.



2,608 pages in 21 days for an average of 124.19.


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6. Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself - Alan Alda; 2,608 
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16. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne; 6,228
17. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood - Howard Pyle; 6,368
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