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This has been such an amazing book. I'm a huge fan of Carlin and it was wonderful to gain some insight into the person and his thoughts. Very good read.
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I like George Carlin. He wouldn't make a list of my All Time Favorite Comedians EVER, but his humor is enjoyable, especially his delivery. His thoughts are not all my thoughts, but he is good at expressing and making you think.
This book is...interesting. While some parts are extremely interesting to read about, some of it drags so much my eyes started to blur.
I like that he wrote it, and it's not just a book about him. I haven't read his comedy books, though I bought one at a library sale. I'm looking forward to reading that after this. I'm hoping there will be less drag on it.
This book is...interesting. While some parts are extremely interesting to read about, some of it drags so much my eyes started to blur.
I like that he wrote it, and it's not just a book about him. I haven't read his comedy books, though I bought one at a library sale. I'm looking forward to reading that after this. I'm hoping there will be less drag on it.
funny
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fast-paced
Last and final book book for the year, #103, somewhat fitting to be reading a man's reflections on a long life and career at the end of the year. George Carlin was one of comedy's greats, but you wouldn't know it reading his autobiography, he just didn't see himself that way. Carlin just had an itch to entertain and continually found a place to scratch that itch for 40-50 years. He had struggles, like drugs, tax evasion, arrests for being profane/indecent, but he found a way to always make it back from a bad place. I think I relate to Carlin because he is incredibly cerebral, he's a thinking man's comedian. From his questioning of why certain words are bad (Seven things you can't say on television) To his later work why we as humans do some of the weird stuff that we do, he was always looking at human nature from a perspective that nobody else was. I think that while he knows his longevity and broad range of work make him one of the best, he still struggles a little that he never made it big in movies as he had hoped to early in his career. I think it's also a reason he's not always considered up there with Richard Pryor, though he and Pryor worked together and regularly worked the same stages. While he did find the movies late in life in a pair of Kevin Smith comedies, I think the most ironic turn was that he found success as the Conductor on Shining Time Station, a kids program that was part of the Thomas the Tank universe. To be recognized later in life in public by small children must have been strange for Carlin, but then again, he lead a fairly strange and interesting life.
This book spans over sixty years of George Carlin's life, telling a great deal about the man behind the performer. It was engaging, entertaining, and written in his genuine, impossible-to-duplicate voice.
It was also surprisingly similar in tone and content to [a:Craig Ferguson's|77426|Craig Ferguson|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1209559121p2/77426.jpg] [b:American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot|6404621|American on Purpose The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot|Craig Ferguson|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1255569840s/6404621.jpg|6593483], which I read recently.
As long as you are aware that this is George Carlin's "sortabiography" and not another book of his comedy, you will not be disappointed.
It was also surprisingly similar in tone and content to [a:Craig Ferguson's|77426|Craig Ferguson|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1209559121p2/77426.jpg] [b:American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot|6404621|American on Purpose The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot|Craig Ferguson|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1255569840s/6404621.jpg|6593483], which I read recently.
As long as you are aware that this is George Carlin's "sortabiography" and not another book of his comedy, you will not be disappointed.
A wonderful book, full of George's signature wit and cynicism. Thankful and glad that George's elder brother, Patrick, narrated the audiobook in George's absence. I think part of me will always be sad he couldn't stay in this world a bit longer, but... maybe it's better that way :P He considered Broadway a bunch of times, but it never materialized. Suffice it to say that his material really does feel timeless and consistently relevant.