Try Nothing Twice: The Story of Two Dozen Jobs

This was a bit disappointing to be honest. As a second autobiography, after the first book Clune wrote - Try Anything Once, I had expected it to cover new ground, whereas most of this book is a rehash.

From the first page, it was all familiar, each job and each anecdote. I resorted to looking at the cover and the cover page several times, convinced I had a copy of a misprinted Try Anything Once, as it was all familiar. I struggled to pick out new tales - there were a handful, and some of the previous tales had been expanded a bit. Ironically, the book ends before the previous autobiography did! This one ends as he leaves the German ships, heading north through France to Belgium - just prior to the war.

Fundamentally, I don't really understand why Clune wrote it. It was written in 1946, some 12 years after the first, when he was pumping out books at a prodigious rate (7 published in 1945, this and two others in 1946, 2 in 1947 and 5 in 1948, etc). Perhaps this was just a filler book. I would have thought it would only detract from his reputation - It was certainly disappointing for me.

Read alone, it was probably 4 stars, but having read his earlier book, 2.5 stars, rounded down.