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    Beautiful Things: A Memoir
    Beautiful Things: A Memoir
    Beautiful Things: A Memoir
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    Beautiful Things: A Memoir

    Written by Hunter Biden

    Narrated by Hunter Biden

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    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    “I come from a family forged by tragedies and bound by a remarkable, unbreakable love,” Hunter Biden writes in this deeply moving and “unflinchingly honest” (Entertainment Weekly) memoir of addiction, loss, and survival.

    When he was two years old, Hunter Biden was badly injured in a car accident that killed his mother and baby sister. In 2015, he suffered the devastating loss of his beloved big brother, Beau, who died of brain cancer at the age of forty-six. These hardships were compounded by the collapse of his marriage and a years-long battle with drug and alcohol addiction.

    In Beautiful Things—“an astonishingly candid and brave book about loss, human frailty, wayward souls, and hard-fought redemption” (Dave Eggers, New York Times bestselling author)—Hunter recounts his descent into substance abuse and his tortuous path to sobriety. The story ends with where Hunter is today—a sober married man with a new baby, finally able to appreciate the beautiful things in life.

    Editor's Note

    Unflinching memoir…

    With so many stories out there about Hunter Biden, it’s been difficult to separate rumor from reality. In this unflinching memoir, he tells his side of the story. In vivid detail, Biden recounts a tumultuous life with nuance and perspective that can only come from the person who lived it.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateApr 6, 2021
    ISBN9781797113005
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    Hunter Biden

    Hunter Biden is a lawyer and an artist. A graduate of Georgetown University and Yale Law School, Hunter has worked as an advocate on behalf of Jesuit universities, and served on numerous corporate and nonprofit boards, including as vice chairman of Amtrak and chairman of the board of World Food Program USA. The son of Joe and Jill Biden, Hunter is the father of three daughters: Naomi, Finnegan, and Maisy. He lives with his wife, Melissa Cohen Biden, and their son, Beau, in California.

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    • 1/5
      Why is valuable space on Scribd being taken up with this garbage? The true substance of this man's privileged and completely wasted life has been left out of both the glowing reviews and the book itself.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Seriously??! How dumb does he think we are? Like we’re supposed to have compassion for him for how “hard” his life is as he sells access to his dad and sells out our country?

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      A piece of perverted shit!!!! Wouldn’t waste my time with the disgusting vile thieving elitist!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Exceeded my expectations. I hesitated to read the book since I’d seen Hunter Biden interviewed about it a number of times and assumed there was nothing more to learn; I was so wrong.

      The book is simultaneously heartbreaking, honest, painful yet hopeful and the story resilient. The author’s narration adds so much.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      This was a very clear love letter to Beau. I do commend Hunter for putting his side of the story out. He doesn’t sugar coat his addiction and I respect that. You won’t find anything else but the story of a man dealing with addiction and his family story. None of all the political drama, not much about his father except his unconditional love for his family. I don’t think it’s a must but it was a good read (listen). Something that it is very clear from the start and again, part of that love letter to Beau, is that the Biden clan is filled with compassion and love. But that shouldn’t come as a surprise if you have payed attention to the President.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Honest, raw, sad, simple, beautiful. I highly recommend to everyone. Patience, love, hope, family. What would life be without these.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      DOES THIS BOOK ALSO COVER ALL OF HIS AND HIS FAMILY'S DISGRACEFUL AND EVIL CORRUPTION AND PEDOPHILIA???

      IF NOT, THIS IS JUST MORE PROPAGANDA. LIKE THE IDEA AN ALZHEIMER'S PATIENT WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT.

      DOES THIS BOOK COVER THE FACT THAT THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY KILLED MILLIONS WITH A BIOWEAPON AND HOW THIS LOSER'S FAMILY IS HELPING THEM COVER IT UP AND NOT FACE JUSTICE????

      WATCH THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY AKA BIG TECH CENSORSHIP REMOVE THIS HONEST AND FACTUAL REVIEW. ⏳⏳⏳

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      I am not American, and therefore don't have any emotional connection or prejudice to HB's story. For good and bad, I suppose. The book itself was touching, but it was not great. The writing wasn't spectacular, more like regular journal entries.
      I think every story of battling and recovering from addiction is admirable and needs to be acknowledged, so I think it's great that HB wrote this memoir.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      As a person who is the opposite of a "Biden-family fan," I was seriously prepared to give this 'listen' zero stars. Had it not been for the gratuitous bashing of President Trump and a series of untruths that have been proven, I would have given it 5-stars. That said, it read more like a biography of Hunter's deceased brother, Beau. There was a lot of tragedy. Losing his mother and baby sister at a young age, the Biden boys, only 1 yr. and 1 day apart with Beau being the eldest, they were like twins, and from the sound of it, they were thick as thieves. Like twins they could — according to Hunter — finish each other's sentences and feel each other's pain. Beau was — not surprisingly — the conscience of the family and Hunter calls himself the heart. I never cried. That's unusual for me especially when there are deaths of people or pets. He talks about most of the things we've read about, but as you would expect, anything negative was glossed over and nearly unrecognizable. Would I recommend this audio/book? Yes, it's an easy read — listen in my case — the story is decent, in a tragic-we-know-you're-a-pathological-liar way, but decent nonetheless. I'm pretty certain I read it like a piece of Fiction, that said; it's a good story.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      One can't go through this memoir without shedding tears! Bravo, Hunter!
    • 5/5
      Beautiful, honest, raw. Never judge a person by what you see on the news.
    • 5/5
      Good book. Raw and Real . i would recommend this book.
    • 5/5
      Very poignant. Mr Biden bravely exposed details of his journey that are difficult to imagine for many of us. I feel confident that many will benefit from his open descriptions and candor. Thank you, Mr Biden. Best wishes to you and your family going forward.
    • 1/5
      Terribly written. I would recommend one of Tom Woods books instead. This book is simply a money maker for a grifting family member.
    • 4/5
      Very honest memoir. It was hard to listen to at times, when Hunter made the wrong choice over and over again. How wonderful and supportive his family is. It all came together beautifully at the end. I wish Hunter all the best to continue on the path of sobriety. I’m so grateful his dad is our president. Hunter comes from a family who is honest and real. I’m glad to have read this book.
    • 1/5
      Crack head memoirs. How in the heck did he get a book deal?
    • 3/5
      I picked up this book because as a person who lost both mother and brother at a very young age to alcoholism and drug issues I knew I’d be able to relate to that deep dark pain such a loss to people you were so close with, that losing them physically hurt. Ripped out your heart. He writes a pretty good story about what happened to him and it was very touching , not to mention will give a lot of hope to people out there are struggling with addiction issues.

      My only criticism is that I thought he went on a little too much about crack and scoring crack but I guess that was his reality at the time but it just seem to take up way too much of the book, I just think detailing every single escapade wasn’t needed. But the parts of the book I loved made up for it. You can tell how much he loves his family and I appreciate how brutally honest he is about himself. I hope he knows just how lucky he is to have had all that extended family love him and support him. I went through so many of the same issues losing the ones who loved me the most, but I don’t have a family that loves me. I’m talking about outside of my kids , my kids are my everything and their love is what keeps me going. But loving aunts an uncle‘s , grandma‘s and all that I don’t have. My own father doesn’t really love me very much. I have come to realize that I cannot make him love me so I feel free now that I have released that expectation. Hunter tho is a very lucky guy. Not everybody has those resources to check into various rehab centres and not everybody has the love he has but what we all have is the *courage inside* to love ourselves and overcome the very worst that life can throw at us and come out the other side better than before. All in all I recommend this book!
    • 3/5
      It is a memoir of an recovering addict. Nothing new.