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4.16 AVERAGE
4.16 AVERAGE
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Medallion Status is a book of stories by, and about, John Hodgman. They are meditations on growing old, and learning your place in the world, and accepting that. Meditations is an overly-fancy word I just looked up to make sure I wasn't technically wrong to use. It's probably pretentious, and possibly wrong in a spirit-of-the-law manner, but I am sticking by my use here. I enjoyed these stories very much.
I love John's voice in this book, particularly in one of the last chapters about two buildings in Florida.
Great follow-up to Vacationland!
Great follow-up to Vacationland!
It’s Hodgman, so it’s always funny and well-written. This book frames most of its stories around celebrity and dwindling fame. Hodgman gets some good material out of this and his observations are generally funny.
The issue I had is that his last book, Vacationland, dealt with aging, parenting, nostalgia and the passage of time, which are much more universal themes than fame. Hodgman‘s digressions are always great but there’s still a barrier to these stories about fame that didn’t exist in his previous works.
Probably closer to a 3.5/5, I’d still recommend it. I’d just probably tell people to check out Vacationland as a must whereas Medallion Status is ‘if you have the time.’
The issue I had is that his last book, Vacationland, dealt with aging, parenting, nostalgia and the passage of time, which are much more universal themes than fame. Hodgman‘s digressions are always great but there’s still a barrier to these stories about fame that didn’t exist in his previous works.
Probably closer to a 3.5/5, I’d still recommend it. I’d just probably tell people to check out Vacationland as a must whereas Medallion Status is ‘if you have the time.’
Hodgman's books are therapeutic for me. I love them, and they are my happy place. This one, I think, was my favorite so far. The final few chapters just destroyed me, but they were also so helpful and cathartic.
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Funny, fascinating, and well-written, as always, but Hodgman’s obsession with achieving a particular airline status didn’t work well for me as a framing device.
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