No Time Like the Future

As a person with PD, many of the situations described resonated with me. While being very real, it is ultimately very uplifting. A great read for anyone with PD, or those who love them.

Although this is my review of Michaels 4th book I would encourage anyone to read all of his books in order. They are all well written and excellent books! I noticed in many reviews, of this his latest book, people were complaining he did not talk much about his Parkinson’s Disease, and therefore people with PD that read it could not relate to him and their own struggles. He talks extensively about his PD in the previous three books, and I don’t believe it was his intention to go over ground he has already covered with the focus of this book being on his more recent struggles with back surgery for a tumor that almost crippled him along a bad fall that seriously broke his arm and how all that made him more grateful and optimistic for the future and his life and family.There was also some criticism in other reviews that since he was a star he was conceited and that he had privilege and access to resources others do not. First of all you would not be reading his book at all if he wasn’t a star in the first place, do you expect him to give away all his money and star status since he now has PD so he can relate to people better? That does not even make sense. Michael did not come from wealth or stardom; he went to Hollywood as a 17-year-old high school dropout and found great success. (that is covered in his other books). Instead of holding that against him I celebrate it with him and am glad he was in a position once he was diagnosed with PD that he could lend his name and influence to fight PD by starting the Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s research. He has probably raised more money, and certainly brought the most national attention to PD than any other person, and again if he wasn’t a successful star, he would not have been able to do that. My mother had PD and I worry about getting it myself. I am glad to have such a great advocate for PD patients as Michael is to be out there leading the charge to fight Parkinson’s disease and find a cure. Rather than finding Michael arrogant or conceded I find Michael to be very humble and he very much does relate with common people with PD on a regular basis. Read his other books, they go into all of that. Watch some YouTube videos of him meeting with common people with PD and helping them.In this book Michael does tell the story of one of the great heroes in his life; he is a regular young guy with a family diagnosed with PD that initially kept his diagnosis secret but found the courage to go public and get involved in Michael’s Foundation bringing awareness to young onset PD. He is one of my heroes too. I highly recommend this latest book by Michael J Fox and look forward to many more!

I grew up watching Michael J. Fox. I was hooked by Family Ties, and after Back to the Future, I was infatuated. I made it a mission to watch everything he did, even the films that weren't box office hits (The Hard Way and The Frighteners are two of my personal favorites). I collected MJF magazines or clipped out articles and pictures.When Fox went public with his Parkinson's diagnosis, he was starring in Spin City. I watched, as I'm sure many did, looking for evidence of his condition. He was skilled at masking it, and had even said to Barbara Walters in 1998: “I won’t see 50 with this. I will see 50, but I will not have this.” He's now 60. Parkinson's has remained, and has progressed to the point that he is taking a second retirement from acting.Fox has labelled No Time Like the Future as his "cranky" book. It's not the optimistic (and aptly titled) Always Looking Up or the surprisingly thankful Lucky Man. And Fox is a lucky man. He's enjoyed a decades-long career doing what he loves, winning awards and acclaim (yes, he has a Star on the Walk of Fame). He married the love of his life, and has four kids he adores, who he claims are smarter, funnier, better-looking, and taller than him (I'll grant him that last comparison). He beat an alcohol addiction that could have cost him his career and his family. He had successful brain surgery. He and his wife and twin girls almost returned home from Europe on a doomed Concorde jet, but flew home the day prior to the crash. His family was alone in New York on 9/11 (Fox was working on the West Coast), but they avoided the danger, and he made it home to them safely. He almost needed a finger amputated (but didn't). A benign tumor on his spine could've paralyzed him, or the surgery to remove it could have (they didn't). Yet it was a bone-breaking fall in his kitchen that literally and figuratively knocked him on his ass, making him question his trademark optimism.Fox doesn't hold anything back in his description of his surgeries and recoveries. Personal, irreverent, and at times shocking, his accounts are amazing in that he was quietly enduring them, without the world knowing the raw details. He shares the raw details in this book, but he also shares humorous and touching stories about his mother, his siblings, his wife, his kids, his dog (RIP, Gus!), and his work.His work has changed. No longer the young, active, spontaneous comic movie star, he had found the joy of appearance roles, mostly in television. Now that has changed as well, and writing is his work. And like with his acting, he's damn good at it. Especially with the challenge of his Parkinson's, which he reveals prevents him from typing, and makes his handwriting nearly illegible.Last year, Fox and his wife, Tracy Pollan, went to Madison Square Garden to catch a Rangers hockey game. The two were shown on the GardenVision, and under Fox’s image, the caption read “Michael J. Fox, Actor.” When the world fell in love with Fox, it was as a television and movie actor, But he’s much more than that.He’s a husband, a father, and a family man. He’s an author, an advocate, and an activist. He’s a sports fan, a musician, and a persistent optimist. And threading through all of that, he’s a guy with Parkinson’s Disease.

Michael J Fox has a way of telling the stories of his life that draw you in to see the real person behind the actor, the man. He deals with his challenges with such wonderful humor. He admits his fears and shows his humanity. To see all that he has gone through and still manages to keep his humor and his empathy for others alive is wonderful.

Michael still has his great sense of humor! He has a lovely positive outlook on life life! We could all use him as an example to move forward!!

I was intrigued. That’s why I decided to read this memoir. I loved it. It is at times heartbreaking, always compelling, filled with truthful observation and humble self analysis. Michael J. Fox did an excellent job of showing what Parkinson’s is all about and how he won’t let it define him. I recommend this book. Great reading.

I wanted to read this book because I like Michael J Fox the actor. I was hoping to read the humor and sarcasm of some of his characters he has played and I wasn't disappointed. To be allowed a glimpse of his personal life and struggles showed strength not only of him but his family as well.

Excelente. Muito bem escrito, muito humano. O MJF se entregou de alma.

Michael J Fox shames me. He has been through so much and yet he carries on and smiles while doing it. I get upset because I have run out of Weetabix. Michael's story is touching, heart wrenching but uplifting as well. He gives hope. Ho shows how we can be. He finds humour in despair and knock after knock. This book is about a period of his life. I am glad he shared his journey and pain. Through all his hardships he has raised nearly one billion dollars for Parkinsons. A truly wonderful, inspiring, endearing, lovely man.

Was cadeau voor vrouw

Esta muy padre me gustó mucho

Credo che wow sia la definizione perfetta per questo libro. Lo trovo disarmante e perfettamente scritto. Michael ha messo su carta la sua storia, il suo vissuto, raccontando con estrema facilità di comprensione quali sono le difficoltà della sua vita, le perplessità del mondo davanti alla celebrità "malata". Davvero bellissimo e a tratti commovente. Bellissimo libro che merita di essere letto, condiviso e raccontato per portare alla luce la forza con il quale si affronta la vita e la malattia.