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The Tao of Bill Murray: Real-Life Stories of Joy, Enlightenment, and Party Crashing Kindle Edition

by Gavin Edwards (Author), R. Sikoryak (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Perfect for the Bill Murray fan in all of us, this epic collection of “Bill Murray stories”—many reported for the first time here—distills a set of guiding principles out of his extraordinary ability to infuse the everyday with surprise, absurdity, and wonder.

No one will ever believe you.

New York Times bestselling author Gavin Edwards, like the rest of us, has always been fascinated with Bill Murray—in particular the beloved actor’s adventures off-screen, which rival his filmography for sheer entertainment value. Edwards traveled to the places where Murray has lived, worked, and partied, in search of the most outrageous and hilarious Bill Murray stories from the past four decades, many of which have never before been reported. Bill once paid a child five dollars to ride his bike into a swimming pool. The star convinced Harvard’s JV women’s basketball team to play with him in a private game of hoops. Many of these surreal encounters ended with Bill whispering, “No one will ever believe you” into a stranger’s ear. But The Tao of Bill Murray is more than just a collection of wacky anecdotes. A sideways mix of comedy and philosophy, full of photo bombs, late-night party crashes, and movie-set antics, this is the perfect book for anyone who calls themselves a Bill Murray fan—which is to say, everyone.

Praise for The Tao of Bill Murray

“When confronted by life’s challenges and opportunities, we should all be asking ourselves, ‘What would Bill Murray do?’ This book actually has the answers.”—Jay Duplass, writer, director, actor, fan of Bill Murray

“[Gavin Edwards] captures Murray’s enigmatic, comic genius.”—The Washington Post

“Rib-tickling.”—Newsday

“If you are among the multitudes who have a Bill Murray story (viz: ‘I was in the airport bar, and who sat down next to me but Bill Murray?’), The Tao of Bill Murray will speak to you.”—Elle

“Murray is an endless delight, and his knack for bons mots and non sequiturs will keep readers laughing before revealing an unexpectedly poignant vision for happiness. . . . A fun and revealing look behind the charm and mythos of Bill Murray that will only strengthen his legend.”—Kirkus Reviews

“This book is bursting with anecdotes that underline Murray’s unconventional and fun-loving life. . . . Murray’s fans are sure to savor [it] and walk away with a deeper appreciation of the actor and his work.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“I just can’t fathom how anyone could not like the man. He lives as much as possible by his own rules; this is a guy who doesn’t buy round-trip airline tickets because he prefers to make decisions on the fly. That old question of the three people you’d most like to have dinner with? I’d pick Bill Murray and leave the other two chairs empty just to see who he pulls over to join us. . . . You will love The Tao of Bill Murray. Period.”—GeekDad

“A hilarious read—occasionally heartwarming, sometimes head-scratching. . . . Sure to please Murray fans.”—Library Journal

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“Reading The Tao of Bill Murray is like spending time with Bill, but probably safer.”—Danny Rubin, screenwriter of Groundhog Day

“When confronted by life’s challenges and opportunities, we should all be asking ourselves, ‘What would Bill Murray do?’ This book actually has the answers.”—Jay Duplass, writer, director, actor, fan of Bill Murray

“[Gavin Edwards] captures Murray’s enigmatic, comic genius.”—The Washington Post

“Rib-tickling.”—Newsday

“There have been greater, weightier testaments to the art of cinema published in 2016 . . . but for sheer dopamine release, [The Tao of Bill Murray is] hard to beat.”—The New York Times Book Review

“I enjoyed the book so much. Edwards shows us how Murray uses his star power to bring surprise and delight into random people’s daily lives. Whether it’s showing up uninvited to a NYC kickball game or stopping in to a bachelor party to give unsolicited advice on love and marriage, it does seem Murray is trying to tell us something about joy and spontaneity. So, I think it’s high time we all listened.”—NPR

“A must for any fan of Bill Murray . . . Shoot, [Edwards] has sat through every Bill Murray movie, including Where The Buffalo Roam and Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties, so he deserves credit for that endeavor alone. Credit is also due, though, for this paean to Bill Murray.”—The Free Lance-Star

“If you are among the multitudes who have a Bill Murray story (viz: ‘I was in the airport bar, and who sat down next to me but Bill Murray?’), The Tao of Bill Murray will speak to you.”—Elle

“Murray is an endless delight, and his knack for bons mots and non sequiturs will keep readers laughing before revealing an unexpectedly poignant vision for happiness. . . . A fun and revealing look behind the charm and mythos of Bill Murray that will only strengthen his legend.”—Kirkus Reviews

“This book is bursting with anecdotes that underline Murray’s unconventional and fun-loving life. . . . Murray’s fans are sure to savor [it] and walk away with a deeper appreciation of the actor and his work.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“I just can’t fathom how anyone could not like the man. He lives as much as possible by his own rules; this is a guy who doesn’t buy round-trip airline tickets because he prefers to make decisions on the fly. That old question of the three people you’d most like to have dinner with? I’d pick Bill Murray and leave the other two chairs empty just to see who he pulls over to join us. . . . You will love The Tao of Bill Murray. Period.”—GeekDad

“A hilarious read—occasionally heartwarming, sometimes head-scratching. . . . Sure to please Murray fans.”—Library Journal

“Everybody has a Bill Murray story. Okay, not everybody, but author Gavin Edwards found enough people with quirky tales of the infamously impulsive actor to fill a book. . . . An enchanting and insightful collection of everyday moments turned magical thanks to Murray’s sly pranks, beneficent deeds, and delightful intrusions on the hoi polloi.”—Crave

“Hilarious and profound.”—Shelf Awareness

“As much as I love Gavin Edwards’s wonderful The Tao of Bill Murray, I can’t help but feel sad that Bill Murray has never covered my eyes on a street corner.”—Moby

And other Tao writers welcome Gavin Edwards to the brotherhood:

“Bill Murray seems to have shambled, stumbled, joked, surprised, party-crashed and acted his way to the Tao. However he got there, we’re all better off for him having demonstrated his unique way.”—Gary Dudney, author of The Tao of Running

“Capturing the spirit of a man who actively defies logic is like chasing a mustang through the desert in your skivvies. Luckily Edwards had some help: In this rowdy little book, he collects potent tales from people who experienced something strange and intangible: the zany antics of a trickster whose improvisation skills on stage and screen are nothing compared to his sometimes gallant, sometimes ridiculous, always dauntless improvisations with life.”—Linda Kohanov, author of The Tao of Equus

“Mercurial, paradoxical, spontaneous, contrarian, whimsical, benevolent, lighthearted yet deadly earnest: these terms aptly describe both the precepts of the Tao Te Ching and the man known as Bill Murray. Moreover, Murray embodies all of these qualities without even knowing it, easily qualifying him for Taoist of the Month. This collection of bizarre, heartwarming, and hilarious stories will give his fans greater appreciation of his unorthodox approach to life.”—Ali Binazir, M.D., M.Phil., author of The Tao of Dating

“This book defies description, like Bill Murray himself. That’s oddly appropriate, since the Tao is beyond words. Murray has certainly blazed a unique and unusual path through his life. May this book inspire you to do the same through yours!”—Derek Lin, author of The Tao of Daily Life

“The practice of a Taoist is to make his Way on earth groove in balance and harmony with the Great Way of Heaven. The Way of Bill Murray is to find heavenly humor in the most mundane affairs of life on earth.”—Daniel Reid, author of The Tao of Health, Sex, and Longevity

“#intoxicating #strangerthanfiction #murrayforpresident”—Mark W. Schaefer, author of The Tao of Twitter

“I thought I knew the true path to enlightenment—until I read The Tao of Bill Murray.”—Mary Buffett, co-author of The Tao of Warren Buffett

“The principles of Tao make sense in relation to recovery—who thought it was a good idea to discuss some comedian in those terms?”—Jim McGregor, author of The Tao of Recovery

About the Author

Gavin Edwards is the New York Times bestselling author of eight books, including Last Night at the Viper Room, Can I Say (written with Travis Barker), VJ (written with the original MTV VJs), and ’Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy. As a longtime contributing editor for Rolling Stone, he has written a dozen cover stories for the magazine, traveled the world from Bahrain to New Zealand, and taken a city bus to the Grammys. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with his wife and their two sons.

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The First Principle

Objects are opportunities.

The greatest misadventure ever involving alcohol and a nontraditional motor vehicle belongs to country-music legend George Jones: When his wife hid his car keys so he wouldn’t drive to the liquor store, he made the eight-mile trip on a John Deere lawnmower. Bill Murray, however, gave the singer a run for his money in August 2007, when he went to the Scandinavian Masters, a golf tournament in Sweden. Late enough on a Sunday night that it was actually Monday morning—around 3:30 A.M.—Murray was spotted in downtown Stockholm, driving a golf cart through the streets. This was a sufficiently unusual mode of transportation that he got stopped by the police on suspicion of drunken driving. (Even if he had wanted to outrun them, he was in a golf cart.)

Apparently the golf cart had been on display all week outside Bill’s hotel—until Bill and some friends commandeered it for a party at the Café Opera nightclub, about a mile away.

The Café Opera manager, Daniel Bodahl, said Bill “was a very good guest.”

The man in charge of the Scandinavian Masters, Fredrik Nilsmark, said, “I don’t hold any grudge against Bill Murray for borrowing our cart for a while.”

Detective-Inspector Christer Holmlund of the Stockholm police force said, “I have done this since ’68 and I’ve never experienced anything like this.”

Bill’s explanation? He hadn’t personally borrowed the golf cart, he claimed—he had started off as a passenger, being driven to a party. (Which sidestepped the question of whether the people driving him had permission to use that golf cart.) “I was taken to the party by people who did not feel they could drive the golf cart back,” Bill said. “They said, ‘We can’t drive back—we’ll lose our license.’ I said, ‘I won’t lose my license.’ That’s what America used to be famous for: helping out, pitching in.”

So he drove the golf cart through the streets of Stockholm sometime after 3:00 A.M. A “twilight drive,” Bill joked—being so far north, Stockholm has incredibly long days during the summer. He had about six passengers crammed into the back of the cart and he was dropping them off at various destinations, like a bus driver. To complete the surreal scene, two drunk Swedish guys were hanging on to the very back of the cart, singing the 1970 Cat Stevens song “Father and Son.”

The last two people on the cart wanted to be dropped off at a 7-Eleven. “I didn’t know they had 7-Elevens in Stockholm,” Bill commented. In front of the 7-Eleven, the police spotted Bill behind the wheel of the golf cart and called him over, assuming that he must be drunk. Bill’s explanation that he was a golfer proved insufficient.

Holmlund said that when the police officer smelled alcohol, Bill declined to take a Breathalyzer test, “citing American legislation.”

“Or as Bill told the story, he told the police officer, “I’m sorry, but where I come from, you have to act stupid or goofy or hit something or drive erratically or something—you’re just assuming that I’m drunk because I’m driving a golf cart at three-thirty in the morning.”

Holmlund agreed that Bill wasn’t visibly drunk: “There were no obvious signs, like when someone is really tipsy.”

The confrontation migrated to the police station. “They said, ‘We’re going to take your blood now,’ and I said, ‘What if I politely decline?’ ” Then, Bill said, “They introduced me to this guy, Gunther or somebody…who had a smile on his face, but not the smile you want to see.” Bill submitted to Gunther and the police administered a blood test; Bill signed a document conceding that he had been driving under the influence and authorizing a police officer to plead guilty on his behalf if the matter ever came before a judge. Bill was then released and allowed to leave Sweden.

When the blood work ultimately came back, Bill’s blood alcohol content was around 0.03 percent—way below the general American DUI standard of 0.08 percent but above the strict Swedish threshold of 0.02 percent. He had to pay a fine. “For having any amount of alcohol and having a golf cart, you have to pay something,” Bill said. “It’s just a courtesy, I guess.”

Producer Joyce Sloane founded the Second City Touring Company, where the junior performers of Second City would take the group’s Chicago-tested material on the road, with everyone piling into a van. She said that in the early seventies, after the tour hit Notre Dame, one of their performers disappeared for about a week—apparently, Bill Murray had discovered that Saint Mary’s College, a women’s-only college, was next door. Even when Bill stayed with the group, he was a force of chaos.

The troupe did a show at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana, which went extremely well: They were even invited to a reception at the president’s home. But as the van pulled away and headed out of town, the entire cast had the giggles. Soon enough, Sloane figured out why: “Bill had taken it upon himself to take the Oriental rug from the president’s home and put it in the back of the van.”

Dan Patrick, revered sportscaster on ESPN and other venues, tells this story:

We were doing a pub crawl in New York, an A-to-Z pub crawl. I run into Bill Murray at a place in the Village, and I said, “Billy, we’re going to go on a pub crawl and do you want to go with us?”

He said, “Sure.” So we’re walking down the street, there’s Antique Boutique, and he goes, “Hold on.” He runs in and comes out with an orange tie.

I said, “What’s this for?”

He says, “Didn’t you say on SportsCenter that the hardest thing about being the coach of Tennessee is trying to find those god-awful orange ties?” He said, “Put it on!”

I put it on, we went on the A-to-Z pub crawl, we got to the letter L…and there’s a street cleaner, the street sweeper; the machine is on. And Bill goes, “What are you thinking?”

I go, “I don’t know. Am I thinking what you’re thinking?”

He said, “Let’s steal this thing.”

I wasn’t thinking that. I wasn’t. I was thinking, let’s get to the next bar. I didn’t even know the thing was running, and Billy goes, “Let’s get in it.” So he starts to climb up in the street cleaner.

And this guy runs out and he’s like, “What are you doing? I’ll lose my job!”

And he sees it’s Bill and I think Bill said, “Don’t worry.” He said, “Can I just take it down the street a little bit?” So we just inched along like a tank down the street.

Lorne Michaels, creator and executive producer of Saturday Night Live, analyzed Bill Murray’s location in the comedy firmament: “So much of my generation’s approach to comedy was a reaction against the neediness of performers. When Bill was onstage, he didn’t much care whether they liked him. Because of that, he had enormous integrity.”

Michaels discovered, however, that integrity wasn’t the same thing as reliability. In the summer of 1979, Michaels needed to get his Volkswagen Super Beetle from Los Angeles to New York; the producer had left it behind when he relocated to Manhattan for SNL. Bill volunteered to drive the car across the country—and he did, but on his own timetable. “Remember, I was his boss,” Michaels said. “Occasionally I would hear from Bill on the road. He’d be in Florida, and I’d say, ‘But, Bill—is Florida on the way?’ Or a week later, he’d be in Aspen and I’d say, ‘But, Bill…’ ” Bill may not have treated the driving mission with the focus Michaels expected, but he did ultimately deliver the car, and with a bonus. The car arrived weeks late, and had accumulated hundreds of unexpected miles on the odometer—but Bill had installed a top-notch stereo.

In 1985, Trine Licht was a young Danish woman living in New York City, delighted to have gotten a job as an assistant at Punch Productions, Dustin Hoffman’s personal production company. She worked in the Directors’ Guild building, on 57th Street, helping to find novels and screenplays that Hoffman might want to star in or direct. After she had been on the job for a few months, she had a surprise visitor in her office: Bill Murray poked his head in and said hello. (Hoffman and Murray were friendly, having recently played roommates in Tootsie.) Bill became a semi-regular visitor. Licht said, “He had an office down the hall but was not always there, only between shooting films. I think he read screenplays and novels there; maybe he did other things too. But he did occasionally ask, ‘Have you read this’ or ‘Have you read that,’ and he always looked like he was reading.”

One summer day, Bill dropped by Licht’s office, as was his custom—only this time, he asked, “Want some popcorn?”

When she said that she did, Bill disappeared. He was gone for long enough that Licht assumed he had forgotten about the popcorn. But when he came back, he didn’t just have a bucket of popcorn: He pulled a cart full of warm popcorn into the office. Bill had gone down to the street, negotiated with a popcorn vendor, and bought his whole operation.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01A4AXMC8
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Random House; Reprint edition (September 20, 2016)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 20, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 33777 KB
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Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 369 pages

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Gavin Edwards is a New York Times-bestselling author, a public speaker, and a survivor of the world's largest tomato fight. He is the man behind twelve books including The Tao of Bill Murray, 'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy, and Kindness and Wonder: Why Mister Rogers Matters Now More Than Ever. He has come in second place on Jeopardy!, third place on Merv Griffin's Crosswords, and seventh place in a demolition derby at Riverhead Raceway. Gavin (gavinedwards.com, @mrgavinedwards) has lived in New York, London, Los Angeles, and Charlotte.

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bmain007

Great Book

Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2018

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I wasn't too sure of what to expect from this book. But I ended up having such a great time reading it. I was smiling and laughing from beginning to end. It is a must read for anyone who considers themselves a fan of his. I hope so much to have an encounter with the man like any of the many takes shared. I also loved,I the last part with the summaries of his movies. It provided me with a list of movies I need to get caught up on.

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Everett James 3

Bill Murray is my spirit animal

Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2021

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This is a great, deep and extremely philosophical book for those who get it. Other people will just dismiss all of it as junk. But Bill has found a road that gives to all and gets for him that is an excellent way to travel through this journey we call life.

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kiteblues

Full of anecdotes; deeper and more unsettling than expected, but full of humanity

Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2017

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“The Tao of Bill Murray” by Gavin Edwards was everything I expected: chock full of real-life anecdotes of people’s random encounters with Bill Murray. But it was also deeper and a little more unsettling than I expected.

Bill Murray is unlike any other actor/comedian/celebrity and seems to intentionally blur the line between acting and real life. It’s improv all the time –whether you like it or not.

He’s not punctual and constantly wandering off, but he has so much charisma he gets away with it. It’s hard to see it as anything but self-centered the way he bends the world around himself at all times. It might be a little sad, but the book provides enough depth and solid material to see the humanity behind it.

Bill Murray lives for improvisation. He creates improv all the time and everywhere he goes. He’s absolutely addicted to the live wire energy of the unexpected and the razor’s edge of improvisational comedy and acting. So much so that he creates and improv space around himself in real life too; always.

The one thing you can absolutely rely on Bill Murray to do is whatever you aren’t expecting him to do. He challenges himself and everyone around him to live on the edge and truly in the uncertainty of the moment second-by-second.

Here are some notes from the book to illustrate my observations:

Page 32, Danny Rubin, screenwriter of Groundhog Day. “I’ve always believed that the way he walks into a room and shakes things up had less to do with his desire to be the center of attention and was more to create a playful atmosphere in which to dwell.”

Page 35, Author asked Bill Murray about his public antics. What did he want people to take away from a meeting with him? He said he wasn’t thinking of them necessarily “My hope always is that it’s going to wake me up and if I see someone that’s out cold on their feet, I go, ‘Okay I’m going to try to wake that person up.’ It’s what I’d want someone to do for me: wake me the hell up.”

“I’m only connected for second and minutes a day sometimes. And sometime you go ‘Holy Cow, I’ve been asleep for two days. I’ve been doing things but I’ve just been out.’”

Page 68, Harold Ramis. “If there’s no drama, he’ll create one for you. He likes walking to the edge, and to get to the edge means pushing everyone else there. He has two modes: sleep and overstimulation.”

On Murray’s acting style: “He hates the Strasberg Method and won’t really prepare in the classical manner, so he is forced to pretty much rely on inspiration, wit, instinct, and impulse. When it works for him, it’s truly magical. But there are times when he really has to dig for it, to mine his deepest energy reserves to come up with something good.”

Page 183, Sigourney Weaver on Bill Murray’s technique with women and children. He makes you laugh when you least expect it. He breaks conventions and it’s such a shock that they end up laughing because there is nothing malicious about him. He’s pure fun.

He’s the same with kids, even little babies. “At first they look at him in horror; then they get broken down and start laughing.”

Page 200, Toronto International Film Festival, Bill Murray Day, September 5, 2014. Bill Murray asked what turns out to be the final question of a Q&A panel discussion. His response is unexpectedly heartfelt, genuine, and a way of finding mindfulness in any situation. It’s worth reading or listening to in full so I’m not going to quote it here. It’s described in the book, but it’s also available online and it’s absolutely captivating.

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Jim Kukral

Just makes you want to be like Bill Murray even more

Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2018

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Good, fun book about Bill's journeys. If you like him, you'll like him even more. I was worried the book was just going to be a rehash of what I've read on the Internet but it's more than that. Enjoyable read. Wish I could hang with him.

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Foothiller16

Not very interesting

Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2022

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Murray is a funny actor and has played some very dramatic roles, as well. The book is just not that great. If you want a listing and a bit of discussion about all his movies -- it would be worth buying a used copy. While Murray is funny -- he is a bit obnoxious (he probably would take some pride in that).

Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2021

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Came in great condition. Packaged nicely. Good quality. Perfect gift for my husband.

Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2018

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I have been an SNL viewer since the 80’s and I believe in the Tao of Bill! Being an Italian Catholic from Chicago, yet raised in LA and having attended public schools, my whole existence has been watered down and lacking in the midwestern city-life mentality represented by the likes of the best comedians such as Bill, so I therefore appreciate the humor and antics of Mr. Murray and his cohorts unabashedly! Read this book to lighten your load and your life!

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David Wineberg

All the world's a stage, apparentlly

Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2016

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The whole secret to Bill Murray is improvisation. Wherever he is, whatever the situation, Bill Murray looks at it as an opportunity for improv. He can do anything he wants, anywhere, to anyone. If there are consequences, he can either duck them or pay for them. If it’s just him alone, it’s a new improv experience, usually with people he does not know and will never see again, as in crashing party or a series of them. Or it could be with an individual, as when he comes up behind a pedestrian and covers their eyes with a “Guess who!” followed by a “Nobody will ever believe you.” And he simply walks away. He likes to touch people’s lives in a totally noncommittal ways. It gives him pleasure, stokes his ego, and he gets to mark it up as having made another difference in this world. Welcome to the Tao of Bill Murray.

Edwards has collected a small hillock of Bill Murray stories from the people affected by them – victims, witnesses, co-conspirators and coworkers. There about a hundred pages of these incidents, preceded by a biography and followed by an appreciative filmography. The anecdotes are sophomoric, and moronic - things that adults don’t do. Murray lives in the moment – the spur of the moment, and little else matters. He never buys a return ticket. He will be late for everything, annoy his employers, frustrate his friends and thrill total strangers. Bill Murray lives Animal House.

Edwards divides the stories into ten “principles” of Murray’s – things like loving spontaneity, including everyone in the party, and so on. These principles allow Edwards to gather stories with similar facets. Murray’s experience in improv gives him the ability to evaluate an environment instantly, understand a dynamic immediately, and find a way to leverage or destroy it instinctively.

Murray is a lucky man. He is rich enough and famous enough to live the life he wants, as honestly and as straightforwardly as he wants. He reports to no one. He is forgiven for everything because he is a known humorous and harmless quantity. The Tao of Bill Murray demonstrates it thoroughly.

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Adrian Rodriguez Montfort

Lectura básica

Reviewed in Mexico on June 22, 2021

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Este libro sobre el genio que es Bill Murray debería ser lectura básica a nivel secundaria.

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Pierre Pieck

What would Bill do?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 1, 2019

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This is the second time I’ve bought this book (I moved to a different country and left my original copy and I needed it back in my life). Gavin Edwards does a great job of taking some of the best -and confirmed- Bill Murray stories, some of which he got personally from the people who lived them, and using them as examples for each of the Ten Principles he’s devised. Ten Principles to make your life more easy going by being more present to yourself and others, which is what the myth and legend of Bill are all about. He even starts out with a short biography on Bill, talking about his influences like Del Close and G. I. Gurdjieff (definitely check them out if you like Bill, google Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way).

It also does a great job in adding to Bill Murray’s philosophy but also humanising him, adding commentaries and stories about people who have met him and have had a fallout (like Harold Ramies) so he doesn’t idolise or idealise Bill.

As Jay Duplass said, if you have ever wondered “what would Bill do?”, this book has the answers.

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Reviewed in Canada on December 10, 2021

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irocha

More biography than tao

Reviewed in Mexico on January 15, 2019

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Its good, its funny the theme of tao, but its that a biography only that.

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