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What I Ate in One Year (and Related Thoughts)

Listening to Stanley Tucci is like sitting with the most entitled, conceited person you know. Constant insistence of their own brilliance and humility, interwoven with ostentatious self-deprecation is the point of this “memoir”. That, and promoting his mediocre line of cookware.

There is little interesting discussion of food or life in this book. Instead, you should read this book if you want to read the complaining of a rich, middle aged man with little troubles in life. You will be regaled with topics such as “my kids are annoying for not liking enough variety of foods”, “Halloween is a bad holiday because your kids go to strangers’ houses begging for candy”, and “people don’t dress up fancy to go out to eat anymore”, with a sprinkling in of insinuations that the mother of his children is a lying, home-wrecker. I’m sure that when his children grow up that they will love their father for publicly degrading their mother.

Overall, I found little of substance in this book and gained a newfound distaste for Tucci. Plus 1 star for Tucci’s narration. Perhaps, he may find success as an actor.