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The Pursuit of Happyness

Chris Gardner

Paperback | Pages: 320 pages

Rating: 4.2 | 22071 Users | 836 Reviews

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Title	:	The Pursuit of Happyness
Author	:	Chris Gardner
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	October 24th 2006 by Amistad (first published May 23rd 2006)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Biography. Autobiography. Memoir. Media Tie In

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The astounding yet true rags-to-riches saga of a homeless father who raised and cared for his son on the mean streets of San Francisco and went on to become a crown prince of Wall Street

At the age of twenty, Milwaukee native Chris Gardner, just out of the Navy, arrived in San Francisco to pursue a promising career in medicine. Considered a prodigy in scientific research, he surprised everyone and himself by setting his sights on the competitive world of high finance. Yet no sooner had he landed an entry-level position at a prestigious firm than Gardner found himself caught in a web of incredibly challenging circumstances that left him as part of the city's working homeless and with a toddler son. Motivated by the promise he made to himself as a fatherless child to never abandon his own children, the two spent almost a year moving among shelters, "HO-tels," soup lines, and even sleeping in the public restroom of a subway station.

Never giving in to despair, Gardner made an astonishing transformation from being part of the city's invisible poor to being a powerful player in its financial district.

More than a memoir of Gardner's financial success, this is the story of a man who breaks his own family's cycle of men abandoning their children. Mythic, triumphant, and unstintingly honest, The Pursuit of Happyness conjures heroes like Horatio Alger and Antwone Fisher, and appeals to the very essence of the American Dream.

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Original Title:	The Pursuit of Happyness
ISBN:	0060744871 (ISBN13: 9780060744878)
Edition Language:	English

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After enjoying the incredible movie based on this book, I was expecting great things. Alas, I was disappointed. Not by the story itself, but by the ridiculous usage of the f-word. It was over the top and took away from the story. The story itself was inspiring. It was interesting to read the book after seeing the movie and take note of the many differences. Chris son was only about nineteen (or so) months old when they became homeless. My baby was twenty-one months old while I was reading this

I liked this movie and was at the library one day looking for something to read so I checked the book out. It was terrible! I had to finally put it down because the language and content was horrible. The movie was pretty clean, so I was appalled. I do NOT recommend anyone to read this book.

Ive wanted to read this story for a long time to see how it compares to the film it inspired. Chris Gardner is like most peoplebecause he has so much to overcome. It helps me, all of us, to read about a man with a completely different background than mine who encountered so many obstacles, kept persevering and eventually succeeded.

Caution Notice: Ain't a seasoned reader or Critic.The start especially about the childhood and his mother's struggle seemed to be kind of slow and wasn't entrancing. For which I had to literally drag me through to complete. Fast forward to second half, the part when he meets the Ferrari guy and after, was amazing and intriguing. And that's when, actually first half of the book makes sense. Chris ensures that you realize the importance of his childhood which was the source of his strength over

I liked the story, but the writing left something to be desired, I think... and (don't hate me) there were aspects of Gardner's personality that came out in his book that made him a little bit less of a likeable character for me. Not that I didn't respect what he did or how he helped himself and his son... he just came across such that his personality rubbed me the wrong way a few times... Anyone else who can back me up on that? I still haven't seen the movie. Maybe I should.

Chris Gardners The Pursuit of Happyness is surprisingly not your usual feel-good, decent, role-model kind of a book. It is a book that is brutally honest, bad and bloodied in its language and breathtakingly realistic in its approach. For those of you who have seen the movie with the same name starring Wills Smith, well let me be clear - what you saw was in the cinema or DVD is hardly a fraction of what you will read in this book. What I realized after reading the book was, the storyline in the

This book was not what I expected.The two expectations I had when starting this book were:1. That it would mostly be the same story as told in the movie with a few changes that were made for cinematic effect - (like no Rubik's cube, no night spent in the subway bathroom, and no showing up for the interview shirtless and covered in paint, etc...2. That I would not like Chris Gardner. I had been told by someone else that the book showed that he was not a good man, that the reason he went to jail