The Big Five-Oh!: Facing, Fearing, and Fighting Fifty

by Bill Geist and William Geist

Book Overview

Bill Geist's hilarious book describes his personal struggle with the awful aging process and with the monumental milestone called the Big Five-Oh. From the trauma of receiving an application to join the AARP to the realization that he can't really see the menu, hear the waiter, or remember the specials, Geist catalogs the discontents, large and small, of those approaching and passing fifty. He lies about his age, shops for a Harley, buys an Ab-Roller,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688163440
• ISBN13: 9780688163440
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

Belly laughs on this one

This is an easy, fun read with many passages which will make you laugh out loud at yourself and others. He has a terrific slant on the aging process. I can't wait to see how his next book 'reads'.

its a hoot

I am from England but this is one of the first truly American books that has tickled my sense of humour. I laughed out loud in many places in the book and my wife keeps looking strangely at me. I sent it to one of my relations in the U.S.A. but have not recieved any comments yet, it is early days. Best regards . Ron Pearson.

This book is laugh-outloud funny; Geist captures 50 A-OK

Geist's book had me laughing on each page; I couldn't read excerpts to my wife without breaking up -- in laughter, not the marriage. She, however, found him less funny than I did. DON'T waste time reading this, get Geist's "Big Five-Oh" and enjoy it.

This book kept me laughing from the first to the last page.

Bill Geist tickled my aging funny bone with his no-holds barred look at reaching the milestone of 50. Approaching that milestone in September 1998, I was comforted in knowing that all of the parts of my body that are failing or getting bigger are not part of some conspiracy known only to me. Geist has written a laugh out loud expose of the horrors of reaching AARP age qualification. Ron Reich

Geist is right...it's downhill from here.

I was beginning to wonder if all the ailments, annoyances, shortcomings and memory lapses were only happening to me. I was pleased to read the laundry list of post 50 faculties that change for most of us. This book is a hilarious affirmation that we are all in the same boat. A great read.