I just finished reading (I got it from the library) Michael J Fox’s new book “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned”. Michael J Fox recently promoted it on “The Colbert Report” by taking over Stephen Colbert’s desk. It’s a good book, also a quick read, you should be able to finish the book in a day. It’s about his life and lessons he learned (obviously).

One thing he talked about were books vs movies, he said some movies are better than their books, I must say I have always liked the book better than the movie (I never read the books he mentioned though).

One other funny thing that I just learned, was he talked about Robert Zemeckis made a tongue-in-cheek comment to the press that parents groups had prevented toy manufactures from releasing hoverboards to market. I remember hearing about this as a kid. You know from that one kid that every neighborhood had that passes every rumor he hears off as fact, back in the day before the internet, and a wonderful site snopes.com. If we had snopes.com as a kid, we could have debunked 99% of what came out of his mouth right then and there.

The book is written towards recent college graduates (which I am definitely not). I still thoroughly enjoyed the book, and I highly recommend that you pick it up fro yourself.

FYI: In case you didn’t know, Michael J Fox, runs a foundation searching for a cure for Parkinson’s disease: The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research