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4.16 AVERAGE
4.16 AVERAGE
Not quite as touching as Vacationland, but still delightful!
funny
hopeful
medium-paced
"We all journey as strangers."
A heartfelt and funny collection of anecdotes about celebrity. I liked Vacationland more, I think, but this was still a fun read that managed to hit me right in my emotional core on a few occasions. Hodgman narrates the audiobook himself, which is also nice.
A heartfelt and funny collection of anecdotes about celebrity. I liked Vacationland more, I think, but this was still a fun read that managed to hit me right in my emotional core on a few occasions. Hodgman narrates the audiobook himself, which is also nice.
I picked this book up awhile ago and slowly worked my way through the essays. John Hoffman’s writing is funny and poignant and heartwarming. A few essays made me very emotional (the ones about his cat, the 2016 election, Maine). Definitely a different vibe than Vacationland but very much worth a read.
funny
lighthearted
reflective
slow-paced
funny
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
I really enjoy the essay-collection/memoir hybrid. I think John Hodgman is quite good at it. This is a sort of sad book? Which I also enjoyed. Sad books for sad times. I think largely I'm in another narrative-is-inherently-immoral phase, and I really appreciate the act of overlaying a narrative structure on real-life events in a way which both allows me to parse it as a story and also acknowledge that the narrative impulse is always imperfect. And Hodgman writes in a way that does regularly acknowledge the overly-constructed narrative arc.
Which is just to say. We're always choosing randomly how/to what to ascribe meaning, and I like that to be made very explicit.
It's poignant and well-written and just goes down very smoothly! I had a nice time.
Which is just to say. We're always choosing randomly how/to what to ascribe meaning, and I like that to be made very explicit.
It's poignant and well-written and just goes down very smoothly! I had a nice time.
emotional
funny
reflective
fast-paced
funny
fast-paced