Product Description
A provocative, funny, and whip- smart memoir of how one man learned to find joy in his own life after years of hand-to-hand combat with death.
Actor and author Evan Handler’s new book, It’s Only Temporary, is both a deeply personal memoir and a series of meditations on life, love, faith, gratitude, and mortality. In closely examining his own triumphs, mistakes, and less-than-ideal relationships since his miraculous recovery from a supposedly incurable leukemia more than twenty years ago, Handler zeroes in on the most profound question facing every human being: How can a person live well with the knowledge that time is limited? In doing so, Handler has created a poignant and wildly funny rumin… More >>
After reading reviews and listening to Evan on the radio I purchased his book. Sadly, the book was dull and disjointed. I felt like I had ADD while reading it. It has no flow what so ever. I was hoping to read an interesting, wise, witty, clever book but found it to be none of the above.
I still enjoy Evan as an actor.However,the book is going to the donation box at our local library.
Rating: 1 / 5
Boring….I bought this book as I thought he was really funny and I liked him on sex and the city. However, I didn’t finish the book…..it was really slow and boring.
Rating: 2 / 5
I almost never write book reviews, but this book was so bad I felt the need to tell everyone not to waste their time reading it. The only thing I got out of this is that Evan Handler is an arrogant, self-centered person, who seems to want to share details of his boring sex life. Worse yet, he can’t write.
Rating: 1 / 5
I must have enjoyed this book because I picked it back up every moment I could until I finished it. It is very disjointed, not an autobiography as much as a series of personal, very introspective essays, mostly about dating and why he couldn’t make any relationships work. Then pow, he meets this Italian woman and it’s instant. Then there’s an abortion. I don’t like abortions under any circumstances, so this put me off at the end. It doesn’t talk about acting as much as I would have hoped. He has very little…in fact, nothing…to say about the acting process or his roles. He mentions Harry Goldblatt from Sex and the City only because it was his breakthrough role that made him experience fame for the first time, and it happened about the same time he met his wife. I look forward to finding his leukemia survival book at a discount and reading that now.
Rating: 4 / 5
I read Time on Fire when a colleague was dying of lymphoma. I found the book extraordinary, and it hit me hard–and the situation, and especially his anger, though frightening, were riveting.. Sadly, this new book is anything but on fire–it’s boring as he goes from relationship to relationship. I liked him better when he was angry–he had more interesting things to say. Yet I’m glad he has survived, thrived, and is finally happy.
Rating: 2 / 5