(The Not-So-Good) Kind of World We Live In
by Robert Bidlo
This is the true story of a good, hard-working, and honest man who grows up in New York City, without any real parents or true friends. He tries hard to make it in this world, but everything is against him.
His lack of education forces him into the military service, where his life becomes even harder, but he stays in there, punching. He tries hard to make it in his life, but he never quite does.
At the end of the book, he tries to explain why things happen the way they do, and why the world can be such a cruel place.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
The author was born in New York City to Czechoslovakian immigrant parents. After his mother died from cancer when he was five years old, his father stopped staying at home in the evenings. His father would come home from work, leave some money on the table (very little money), and that was supper. Then his father would change clothes and leave for the evening, returning after eleven o’clock at night. Weekends and holidays, he would be gone also, so the author pretty much grew up on the street with no guidance or protection.
He faced many bad times and hardships. Much more then his share. He tries to explain how and why bad things happen, and how to avoid them when possible. (Don’t make the same mistake twice.) Sometimes there is no right or wrong choice though. Bad things are going to happen regardless of what you do. If you can understand how and why bad things happen, and you know it’s not your fault, you know that you have done the best you could, then the pain won’t be so great.
After growing up, he went into the Air Force in hopes of learning a useful trade, but the job they taught him could not be used in civilian life. So he enlisted a second time in hopes they would retrain him. They wouldn’t, so he wound up spending an unhappy twenty years in the Air Force.
(2008, paperback, 66 pages)
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This is the true story of a good, hard-working, and honest man who grows up in New York City, without any real parents or true friends. He tries hard to make it in this world, but everything is against him.
His lack of education forces him into the military service, where his life becomes even harder, but he stays in there, punching. He tries hard to make it in his life, but he never quite does.
At the end of the book, he tries to explain why things happen the way they do, and why the world can be such a cruel place.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
The author was born in New York City to Czechoslovakian immigrant parents. After his mother died from cancer when he was five years old, his father stopped staying at home in the evenings. His father would come home from work, leave some money on the table (very little money), and that was supper. Then his father would change clothes and leave for the evening, returning after eleven o’clock at night. Weekends and holidays, he would be gone also, so the author pretty much grew up on the street with no guidance or protection.
He faced many bad times and hardships. Much more then his share. He tries to explain how and why bad things happen, and how to avoid them when possible. (Don’t make the same mistake twice.) Sometimes there is no right or wrong choice though. Bad things are going to happen regardless of what you do. If you can understand how and why bad things happen, and you know it’s not your fault, you know that you have done the best you could, then the pain won’t be so great.
After growing up, he went into the Air Force in hopes of learning a useful trade, but the job they taught him could not be used in civilian life. So he enlisted a second time in hopes they would retrain him. They wouldn’t, so he wound up spending an unhappy twenty years in the Air Force.
(2008, paperback, 66 pages)
Availability: Usually ships in 2-3 business days.
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