I started reading 700 Sundays because I like biographies and I like Billy Crystal. I wasn't expecting to become so emotionally involved with it, and so pleased for having read it. It is a wonderful and well-written and sad and funny, funny story of his remarkable life. It is a good lesson in overcoming adversity, but also in valuing relationships with family and friends, and just trying to make things better for people other than yourself.
Crystal tells of a night following his 20th high school reunion, all the old gang ended up at his mom's house, just like they had done in the 1960s:
"One of my friends is the head of medicine at a very big hospital in Southern California," says Crystal. "He lectures around the world on these breakthroughs that he's making in oncology. He's a genius, and a very important man. When my mom heard what he was doing, she said, "Stinky, that's fantastic."
