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Paperback. Pub Date: 2011 02 Pages: 336 Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks It looked like any other medical chart with different boxes filled in with my blood pressure and heart rate. but at the bottom next to the Diagnosis of the doctor simply wrote. Terminal Assholism. Juggled between an endless succession of friends. relatives. anarchist boarding schools. libertarian commune dwellers. socialist rebels. and born-again circus clowns. Oran Canfield grew up viewing the inconsistencies of the world with a wary eye. The son of Jack Canfield - the motivational speaker and creator of Chicken Soup for the Soul - Oran is intensely self-conscious and reserved. but his life won't seem to leave him alone. Whether he's teaching two hundred eager self-help disciples to juggle (among them a woman with stumps for hands). dodging a series of wacky near-death experiences. delivering newsp...

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"Thank god Oran Canfield came out of this alive and thank double-god he emerged with his sense of humor. So many weirdball characters and harrowing situations that you'd be hard-pressed to make up better ones. This is the kind of life story that begs to be told."--Beth Lisick author of Helping Me Help Myself

"An oddly compelling and appealing account of a life truly stranger than fiction."--Booklist

"Memoirs about dysfunctional families can be funny, and this book is hilarious... [Canfield] delivers newspapers on a unicycle, wins third place in a juggling competition and experiments with drugs in a Mexican police cruiser. His descriptions are snappy and his side commentary...[makes] you laugh out loud."--Associated Press

"The son of Chicken Soup for the Soul creator Jack Canfield debuts with a memoir of a peripatetic West Coast childhood and subsequent struggle with drug addiction, told in a series of humorous vignettes... The author's deadpan irony is...brilliant..."--Kirkus Reviews

Memoirs about dysfunctional families can be funny, and this book is hilarious [Canfield] delivers newspapers on a unicycle, wins third place in a juggling competition and experiments with drugs in a Mexican police cruiser. His descriptions are snappy and his side commentary [makes] you laugh out loud. --Associated Press"

An oddly compelling and appealing account of a life truly stranger than fiction. --Booklist"

Thank god Oran Canfield came out of this alive and thank double-god he emerged with his sense of humor. So many weirdball characters and harrowing situations that you d be hard-pressed to make up better ones. This is the kind of life story that begs to be told. --Beth Lisick author of Helping Me Help Myself"

The son of Chicken Soup for the Soul creator Jack Canfield debuts with a memoir of a peripatetic West Coast childhood and subsequent struggle with drug addiction, told in a series of humorous vignettes The author s deadpan irony is brilliant --Kirkus Reviews"
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Juggled between an endless succession of friends, relatives, anarchist boarding schools, libertarian commune dwellers, socialist rebels, and born-again circus clowns, Oran Canfield grew up viewing the inconsistencies of the world with a wary eye. The son of Jack Canfield--the motivational speaker and creator of Chicken Soup for the Soul--Oran is intensely self-conscious and reserved, but his life can't seem to leave him alone. Whether he's teaching two hundred eager self-help disciples to juggle (among them a woman with stumps for hands), dodging a series of wacky near-death experiences, delivering newspapers in satin pants on a unicycle, or experimenting with drugs in the back of a Mexican cop car at age thirteen, one thing's for sure: Oran's life is much stranger than fiction.

With mordant wit, Long Past Stopping grapples with the paradoxes of a mad world and shows that feel-good nostrums go only so far. Sometimes the only way out is the hard way.

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