I Never Wanted to Set the World on Fire But Now That I'm 50 Maybe It's a Good Idea!

By Bob Basso

This book could well be the battly cry of the baby boomer generation today. In his entertaining and motivating book, author Bob Basso, dubbed America's Number One Fun Motivator by People Weekly, takes the reader along on the wild, wacky, adventure of a middle-age dropout halfway up a tree in the South Pacific. A healing and hilarious journey into modern maturity, this book offers a lighthearted approach to getting more fun out of life and discarding outdated attitudes that stifle thought and repress further development in the best years ahead. Basso offers food for the soul to anyone in the vicinity of fifty.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556223870
• ISBN13: 9781556223877
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

"IT'S GOING TO BE A FUNNY, FUNNY MOVIE"

A MUST READ FOR ANYONE WHO THINKS AMERICA IS GONE TO HELL IN A HANDBASKET AND WOULD LIKE TO RUN AWAY TO AN IDYLLIC SOUTH PACIFIC ISLAND LIKE THE AUTHOR. BASSO PAINTS INCREDIBLY FUNNY WORD PICTURES OF HYSTERICAL ENCOUNTERS WITH THE COLORFUL INHABITANTS OF BEAUTIFUL MOLOKAI, EACH ONE OF WHOM AFFIRMS THHE KIND OF HOPE WE ALL NEED IN THIS NEW UPSIDE DOWN WORLD. EACH CHAPTER IS A GEM, SOMETIMES PROFOUND, SOMETIMES JUST PLAIN FUNNY BUT ALWAYS INSTRUCTIVE NEVER PREACHY. BASSO HAS CAPTURED THE SPIRIT OF ALL OF US OVERSTRESSED, "WHATDAHELL IS GOING ON " OVER FIFTY CROWD LOOKING TO REGAIN THAT ELUSIVE BALANCE IN OUR LIVES. I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN, VERY INSPIRATIONAL. WOULD MAKE A GREAT MOVIE WITH STEVE MARTIN IN THE LEAD.