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Team America Posted – 3/26/2008 1:46:16 PM | show profile

Looking for MB's list of favorite funny nonfiction books on people having a midlife crisis.

When you're on top of the hill the only place to go is down. Best to start laughing.
dribbledrive1 Posted – 3/26/2008 2:19:30 PM | show profile
--When you're on top of the hill the only place to go is down. Best to start laughing.
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You think so? I don't. Certainly there are drawbacks to aging, but this notion that your life is over at 40 and 50 seems like an old cliche that isn't relevant anymore in an era of aging babyboomers and second and third careers.
jcpatterson Posted – 3/26/2008 4:55:19 PM | show profile
I agree, Dribble. For all that I criticize the Boomers sometimes, I have to hand them a big load of thanks for turning "growing old gracefully" into "continuing to age, vibrantly." I still remember seeing an episode of One Day at at Time when I was a kid, where Anne Romano's kids were telling her on her 36th birthday that since the life expectancy was 72, she was officially middle aged. When I hit that milestone a couple of years back, I thought heck, I'm still a newbie.

That said, I did like the email joke that circulated among my friends when we were all turning 30 that included "You know you're over 30 when you stumble to the bathroom first thing in the morning not because you are hung over, but because it genuinely hurts to get up."
Team America Posted – 3/26/2008 4:59:17 PM | show profile

You guys are taking this way too seriously.

If you have some books to recommend please do so.

Thanks.
jkdscribe Posted – 3/26/2008 5:08:18 PM | show profile
It's not about a midlife crisis, but 'The Day I Turned Uncool: Confeesions of a Reluctant Grownup' is a hillareous read.
Team America Posted – 3/26/2008 9:47:20 PM | show profile

Thanks Scribe.

Will check it out.
worldofnatasha Posted – 3/27/2008 3:10:23 AM | show profile
i really loved Elizabeth Berg's "Open House." more amusing and touching than funny, but a great engaging happy story.
oh -- also novel rather than nonfiction. but really just wonderful.
Team America Posted – 3/27/2008 8:07:41 AM | show profile

Thank you Natasha.
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