3.86 AVERAGE

informative lighthearted mysterious slow-paced

I started reading this book expecting something that it completely wasn't, and I am ever thankful for it. As Norm Macdonald would say, "and that's just fine."

I think this book was one long joke and I just didn't get it.
funny lighthearted fast-paced

I laughed. thank you norm this book was amazing. gander Newfoundland is part of the zeitgeist now 

3.5 ⭐️

This old chunk of coal had an amazing talent for writing. No idea which bits are true or not, who cares really.
adventurous emotional funny informative inspiring mysterious reflective fast-paced

“It’s true what they say. Never meet your heroes. It turns out they’re all a bunch of fucking assholes. They’re probably the reason you turned into such a fucking asshole—because they were your heroes and you spent all your time trying to be like them."

This is like Norm's stand up, reading it after his passing away makes it even more sad that we wont be able to hear those long, folksie stories that would fit into any good literature and end in the most unexpected ways.
Indulging how the book begins as memoir and suddenly turns into a drug fuelled hallucination flashbacks to the ghost writer's loathing about norm. The wordplay and norm's way of interpretation of them never fails to take me by surprise.

This is a most random, most lame and a very funny read and what a champ Adam Eget is,he has been totally murdered here by Norm just like in his shows.


“I remember a psychiatrist once telling me that I gamble in order to escape the reality of life, and I told him that’s why everyone does everything.”
funny lighthearted