Not Fade Away (A Short Life Well Lived) By: Peter Barton

Not Fade Away is an autobiography about a successful man named Peter Barton. Peter Barton was a regular guy. He grew up in a suburban family and had many friends growing up. He was a musician. He played soul music in Harlem’s Apollo Theater and protested at Columbia University in his early adult years. He spent his twenties as a ski bum selling equipment and then eventually graduated from Harvard to be a central figure in the creation of cable television.
In the prime of his life, married, with 3 young children, Peter was diagnosed with cancer. It came out of nowhere and he was told he’d have about 2 years to live. In that short period of time, Peter writes about his experience as a teenager, doing drugs and having many different girlfriends. He talks about how much school he went through and how his opinions on what he wanted his career to be changed. He tells about how his belief in God(s) and Heaven & Hell has developed and changed since his experience with cancer. He writes about the heroic and almost humorous risks he took to make it to the well-off man he became. He describes how he met his wife and how he told his children that he was going to die. His whole life story is in this book. It’s all there. It’s beautiful and risky and adventurous. Peter’s last words were, “I tried my best, I really did.”
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I have nothing but good things to say about this book. It’s an amazing, harshly true confrontation with morality. It will have you laughing and crying and thinking deep thoughts all at the same time. I recommend everyone to read this book. It really makes you rethink everything you’re doing. I wouldn’t change one thing about this book; it’s a crazy rollercoaster of raging emotions & should be absorbed by everyone.
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