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3.86 AVERAGE
3.86 AVERAGE
I wanted to love this book because I love Norm so much. Some parts had me laughing out loud, but I got tired of the whole gambling gag about halfway through. Mostly fiction with a few nuggets of truth mixed in; but somehow completely honest the whole way through.
emotional
funny
reflective
fast-paced
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
I’ve always thought that Norm Macdonald might be the funniest person alive. This book is the first time I’ve ever seen the man beneath the dry, cool persona for who he really is.
True, you can learn a lot about a person by the truth (or what they think is the truth) but you learn a lot more about them by their lies. The version of Norm’s existence that he spins for himself is fantastical and crazy in ways one would not expect, but in the fiction he spins you learn the truth about the man and how he works, almost certainly moreso than some fluff piece.
Norm gambles. A lot. Something extremely serious happened to him at a young age. A lot of people don’t “get” his humor. He just wants to do a routine about an answering machine. He tried to hire a hitman to kill Dave Attell. Adam Eget will jerk you off for fifteen bucks. Lorne Michaels is addicted to morphine. Norm is addicted to morphine. Norm killed himself once and the journey got even weirder from there.
You decide for yourself what really happened. Norm is a great comedian but possibly an even better writer, with a keen sense of the absurd, weird, sad, and occasionally heartbreaking. In written form he stops being a comedian and tries to be a human, and in doing so delivers the closest thing this generation will get to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
True, you can learn a lot about a person by the truth (or what they think is the truth) but you learn a lot more about them by their lies. The version of Norm’s existence that he spins for himself is fantastical and crazy in ways one would not expect, but in the fiction he spins you learn the truth about the man and how he works, almost certainly moreso than some fluff piece.
Norm gambles. A lot. Something extremely serious happened to him at a young age. A lot of people don’t “get” his humor. He just wants to do a routine about an answering machine. He tried to hire a hitman to kill Dave Attell. Adam Eget will jerk you off for fifteen bucks. Lorne Michaels is addicted to morphine. Norm is addicted to morphine. Norm killed himself once and the journey got even weirder from there.
You decide for yourself what really happened. Norm is a great comedian but possibly an even better writer, with a keen sense of the absurd, weird, sad, and occasionally heartbreaking. In written form he stops being a comedian and tries to be a human, and in doing so delivers the closest thing this generation will get to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
The fact that this wasn’t staged as a one-man show is criminal. Norm’s a goddamned legend.
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
sad
fast-paced
I would die for this man. Norm MacDonald was legitimately one of the funniest human beings alive. Also, surprisingly so well written for a book like this. He straight up pulls from Dostoevsky at times. You can tell Norm was so much smarter than he let on. Needed this during a tough time of academic burnout.
Oh Norm! Norm Macdonald manages to write the funniest thing i've ever read, his prose mirrors that of his rambling in his real life interviews and hilarious moments, what a hilarious novel that uses the premise of a "memoir" and turns it on its head. Love Norm R.I.P