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Date Posted: 13:51:08 06/19/03 Thu
Author: Mt. Healthy Mountaineer, your intrepid reviewer
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ANHOW Review of Books: "What Mama Taught Me: The Seven Core Values of Life"

"What Mama Taught Me: The Seven Core Values of Life" by Tony Brown

Published: 2003 by HarperCollins

This is the second book of Tony Brown's I've reviewed (here's a link to the first: click here.)

I had originally requested both books to be held for me through our library and I'd forgotten all about this book. I probably would not have read this book after having read the other one, except for the fact it was shipped halfway across Indianapolis due to my request.

You can read a little background to Mr. Brown on my other review. This book deals with his "Mama", a woman who took him in when he was a baby and his mother was neglecting him. She was not a blood relative, just a woman who saw a baby starving to death due to neglect. He lived with her until her death when he was 12. This book is an attempt on his part to honor her and the simple wisdom she taught him. The Seven Core Values are:

1. Reality: The Value of Being Yourself.
2. Knowledge: The Value of understanding your purpose
3. Race: The Value of honoring your humanity (In this case, the only race his Mama was worried about was worried about was the human race)
4. History: The value of investing in the future
5. Truth: the value of being true to yourself
6. Patience: the value of "Keeping the faith"
7. Love: the value of living joyfully.

As in his other book, Brown repeats himself a lot. He quotes a passage from Hamlet 3 times (part of the "to thine ownself be true" speech) as part of his multiple descriptions of his high school English teacher. He lifts two pages from his other book concerning a story about a YMCA opening in his hometown. He says the same thing, over and over, repitiously, a lot. He repeats himself. Yes, indeed, he seems to say something and then say it again. Repititive, he is.

Like his last book, he is in serious need of an editor. He seems to have written the chapters seperately, without regard to what he had previously written. I like the sentiments and ideas expressed, but, man, it was sometimes tiring to read them. I give this book a "D".

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