All You Need is Luck: When the kids left home, so did they.

By Frank Nelson

All You Need is Luck is the very funny story of an ordinary couple who decided to take a chance and do something extraordinary which others only dream about. Sixteen years ago Frank and Maria Nelson... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 059522668X
• ISBN13: 9780595226689
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

An Entertaining Book

As the author of "All You Need is Luck", I am delighted that Michael Frederick found this book entertaining. Humor being a matter of such individual taste, "entertaining" is definitely a description I prefer to "funny" or "side-splitting." I hope he'll find the just-published sequel, "A Little More Luck", equally entertaining.I would, however, just like to correct a possibly misleading impression left by something Michael wrote in his review. He says he was looking "more for a tale of a few exotic locales and more far-flung adventures" and in this connection mentions only our visit to Bangkok.In fact, almost three times as much space in the book is devoted to the time we spent on Bali and the neighboring Indonesian island of Lombok, destinations I think most readers would consider pretty exotic and far-flung.Having said that, I'm happy to concede that the book, true to the notes on the back cover, does indeed focus on the adventures we had while living and working in New Zealand, Australia, England and the United States.P. S. Although I think the book really deserves five stars, I'm giving it just four so as not to unduly influence the existing star-rating!

A new Bill Bryson on the block?

I'm a great fan of travel writers, especially ones who make me laugh, like Bill Bryson and Pete McCarthy. I've never heard of Frank Nelson before but he sure made me laugh. This book covers a lot of ground, from New Zealand to New England to old England, with a few other stops along the way. I think Nelson is originally English. Anyway he certainly has that dry British sense of humor while also (like Bryson and McCarthy) a sharp eye for the ridiculous things all around us in everyday life. In addition to all the laughs, this tale of two ordinary people just roaming the world year after year makes fascinating reading. I'm envious!