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Every Tool's a Hammer
- Life Is What You Make It
- Narrated by: Adam Savage
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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Publisher's Summary
MythBusters’ Adam Savage - Discovery Channel star and one of the most beloved figures in science and tech - shares his golden rules of creativity, from finding inspiration to following through and successfully turning your idea into reality.
Adam Savage is a maker. From Chewbacca’s bandolier to a thousand-shot Nerf gun, he has built thousands of spectacular projects as a special effects artist and the cohost of MythBusters. Adam is also an educator, passionate about instilling the principles of making in the next generation of inventors and inspiring them to turn their curiosity into creation.
In this practical and passionate guide, Adam weaves together vivid personal stories, original sketches and photographs from some of his most memorable projects, and interviews with many of his iconic and visionary friends in the arts and sciences - including Pixar director Andrew Stanton, Nick Offerman, Oscar-winner Guillermo Del Toro and artist Tom Sachs - to demonstrate the many lessons he has picked up from a lifetime of making.
Things like: don’t wait until everything is perfect - in your workshop or in your life - to begin. Plan with pencil and paper. Sweep up every day. Learn from doing. Share your toys. There is an exact tool for every task (Adam probably has four of them in his wondrous shop), but if you need to pound in a nail and all you have handy is a skill saw - hammer away. The most important thing, always, is just that you make something.
Every Tool’s a Hammer is sure to guide and inspire you to build, make, invent, explore and, most of all, enjoy the thrills of being a creator.
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Critic Reviews
"Adam has drawn for us an imperative how-to for creativity... I am aware of no human outside of fiction more qualified to pen this rousing paean to making. I adore this book," (Nick Offerman, star of Parks and Recreation)
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- Ethan
- 29-03-2020
Exciting and inspiring
Love it! Going back now for round two! Good motivation for a budding builder... worth a listen.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-06-2019
Every chapter’s a lesson
Wow what an amazing life Adam has lead. This book has lit a fire up under my donkey.
I have always enjoyed tinkering with things and this book has given me the nudge I need to delve deeper into this past time.
This book is a treasure trove of ideas and helpful hints and the how to, the why and the where.
Thank you Adam for sharing your passion with us
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- Anonymous User
- 10-09-2019
Absolutely fantastic
This book was exactly what I needed to push me to continue my making journey.
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- Seth Irvine
- 21-07-2022
Makes should read this.
All Makes should read this book. Adam did a great job of reading it and it's clear he put a lot of effort into the writing.
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-12-2022
Loved it
As a maker I love hearing that my issues are common, especially regarding momentum and glue types! Thanks Adam
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- Kai1
- 02-07-2019
Delicious.Like a fine wine and your favourite meal
Now deeply in love with Adam Savage's voice. He is so passionate reading this book that the act of listening to it felt like I was sitting down to eat my favourite meal of spaghetti bolognese with garlic bread and washing it down with a class of pinot noir. So in other words, I couldn't get enough of it!!! When it was done I wasn't hungry, I felt content ( but i did then google what else he has narrated to know there is more in the future..)
I wouldn't say i'm a crafter in the sense that he is, but i certain create and enjoy cosplay - not to the epic degree he has but it certainly gave me great joy to hear about his passion projects over the years. I also loved that Nick Offerman, also famous for "making and paddling his own canoe" in life featured in the book, although did not narrate that section. Nice cross over.
I would recommend this book to anyone who makes and creates, with their hands or their minds.
Just to let you know, I work for Audible, but the views expressed in this review are 100% my own.
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- Anonymous User
- 23-07-2019
Just want I needed to hear
Just want I needed to hear... Thank you Adam Savage for writing and reading your book
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- Anonymous User
- 31-10-2019
Thank you Adam!
This is a tonic, a glass of ice cold water on a hot day, to any creative out there. Beautifully presented by Adam himself, easy, enjoyable, will listen again and again.
Thanks Adam 😊
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- Andrew S. Aitken
- 09-02-2021
Awesome book by an awesome maker.
If you’ve watched Mythbusters, Savage builds, tested or anything else Adam has done then this book is for you.
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- LF
- 20-10-2020
Life is what you make it.
A very inspiring read, the narration felt very personal and it was very hard to put it down!
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