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4.16 AVERAGE
I love John Hodgman's writing
This one felt more melancholy than Vacationland, but I still really enjoyed it
This one felt more melancholy than Vacationland, but I still really enjoyed it
emotional
funny
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
There's something really relatable and human about John Hodgman's writing. We have very different lives in many ways, but I see so many universal experiences, too, and also just laugh out loud moments. I even cried once, because I was so moved. I hope Hodgman writes more books, because he inspires me to tell my own stories, however mundane or weird they may seem.
I have enjoyed [a:John Hodgman|13982|John Hodgman|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1319089020p2/13982.jpg] since his Daily Show days, although I haven't particularly paid attention to him. I am foggy enough on TV/movies that I wasn't sure what he was up to. this was certainly a pleasant read (although it seemed to assume that the reader had read [b:Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches|39391175|Vacationland True Stories from Painful Beaches|John Hodgman|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1523750810l/39391175._SX50_.jpg|55422815], which I hadn't). Some personal stories about not being famous any more, some stories about airline travel, generally pleasant. (And I learned that he's not actually from Maine, which I for some reason believed.)
Reread/listened because it was on my phone and I needed an audiobook (and, of course, because I liked it the first time around). I don't specifically recall this from my first listen, but this time, found it so nearly-pee-my-pants funny I had to memorialize it:
That island is named Crotch Island, because there are a very large number of islands off the coast of Maine, and so I guess when they were naming that island, every other word in the world was taken.John Hodgman's delivery of this line just kills me.
I expected to like this, but not as much as I did, and I didn’t expect to find some parts of it as moving as I did. Also many funny parts, which I expect and appreciate from Hodgman.
Medallion Status by John Hodgman
Sardonic short true stories from secret rooms from PC Guy aka 2005-2015’s favorite character actor for weirdos aka the internet’s favorite fake judge, John Hodgman. He’s always humorous, in a benign dry kind of way, and often very insightful.
Sardonic short true stories from secret rooms from PC Guy aka 2005-2015’s favorite character actor for weirdos aka the internet’s favorite fake judge, John Hodgman. He’s always humorous, in a benign dry kind of way, and often very insightful.
I love John Hodgman's writing: it lies at that nexus of funny, thoughtful, super smart, and self-deprecating that I find irresistible in essays (or, generally, in people). While I think I could relate Medallion Status even less than I could to Vacationland, I can certainly empathize with feeling like a perpetual weird thirteen-year-old wandering a world of strange adults. And his writing about the election made me cry.
funny
reflective
slow-paced
emotional
funny
lighthearted
slow-paced