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I listened to this book and it was read by NPH himself. This book though was laugh out loud funny!! Amazing!! It was very tongue and cheek about a lot of things, but is also unapologetically honest about a lot of things too. I highly recommend this book to any and all NPH fans!
This is a cute idea that works beautifully, although I confess to reading the whole thing from start to finish rather than following any of the suggestions at the bottom of each page. Harris writes well, and the whole thing is funny, intelligent and surprisingly moving. And reading it with my phone in hand meant that I could check out all the Tony songs etc that he talked about, which seemed the right thing to do with a book like this.
This book is great. It's an autobiography and that's not something I normally read because anything I'm interested in I can find on Wikipedia but this book is something else. I get to choose what happens! And if I choose wrong, a hilarious sad ending greets me. So either way I win!
NPH is brilliant. Anything he does is legen-wait-for-it-dary (I had to!). He's just amazing and so is his book.
It's funny, interesting, open and still not inappropriate (with the exception of one chapter and it wasn't too bad). Either way it was really entertaining. If I ever see a Broadway show, I'll have to make sure NPH is in it.
The writing is nothing impressive but it's still very him. I can honestly say it felt like he was telling me his life story. Plus I learned a few magic tricks along the way!
There's nothing this man can't do!
NPH is brilliant. Anything he does is legen-wait-for-it-dary (I had to!). He's just amazing and so is his book.
It's funny, interesting, open and still not inappropriate (with the exception of one chapter and it wasn't too bad). Either way it was really entertaining. If I ever see a Broadway show, I'll have to make sure NPH is in it.
The writing is nothing impressive but it's still very him. I can honestly say it felt like he was telling me his life story. Plus I learned a few magic tricks along the way!
There's nothing this man can't do!
Usually I don't write reviews but I loved this book. Even though I didn't get through all of it, the fact that it was a choose your own adventure was super great. I might even pick it up again to see what stories I missed my first time reading it
This review appeared first at Fantasy is More Fun.
I don't typically read autobiographies, though I'm not sure why. Maybe I assume they won't be as interesting as fiction? Idk why I've thought that though, since the very fact that there was a legitimate reason for them to write an autobiography probably suggests that their life is not boring. It may even feel like fiction, it so not like my boring life. But whatever my the reason, Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography was the first one I've read. What a great way to start - because his life is AMAZBALLS.
First off, I listened to the audiobook - narrated by Neil Patrick Harris (NPH) himself. And he's such a skilled entertainer, he really carried me away quickly into his life tale. There's little bits sporadically from people he's known, writing anecdotes about NPH and a different narrator tells all of those. The only thing that could have made the audio experience better would have been each of those people voicing their parts. I also imagine it would have been uber expensive, since you have people like Whoopi Goldberg, Seth Farland and Kelly Rippa in the mix.
A couple treats you get that you couldn't get from the print version are - 1: A section annotated by David (NPH's partner), in his voice and 2- a recording of child NPH giving an optimism speech. Both are brilliant and put huge smiles on my face.
You do miss out by doing audio too, though. He frequently mentions drink recipes and a couple food recipes from the included PDF - which of course you don't have (maybe you do get that with the cd rather than audible download?). There's also the choose your own adventure aspect - obviously you can't pick an adventure and change tracts frequently. But the audiobook has been recorded with that in mind, pulling you along to all the possible scenarios in its own order. I like to think it's a little treat, since now you get the story in an order chosen for you by NPH (or, more likely, his editor). How cool!
NPH wrote the autobiography using the pronoun "you" instead of "I", which was both unexpected and great. I think you get more swept up in things and feel more part of what's happening when it's "you." And it did lead to a few hilariously weird sentences. But the whole autobiography was sprinkled with funny word-play.
The choose your own autobiography led to some hilarious, fictional endings to NPH's life. But I LMAO, literally aloud (on walks, around strangers who looked at me weird), throughout the whole book. NPH's ability to make you laugh while telling a story really shone through.
But the reason I loved NPH's autobiography so much was actually all the heartwarming moments. NPH has been a fairly private celebrity (for which I don't blame him one bit) and I think it made these glimpses into his private life all the more special. I nearly wept when he talked about the birth of Harper and Gideon. I wore a ridiculous smile every time he talked about his amazing family. I loved watching his journey to acceptance of who he was as a gay man, all under the microscope of being a child star.
If, like me, autobiographies really aren't your thing - I urge you to cast your assumptions aside, at least for this one. Its humorous and heartwarming, jaw dropping and times and there's even magic :)
I don't typically read autobiographies, though I'm not sure why. Maybe I assume they won't be as interesting as fiction? Idk why I've thought that though, since the very fact that there was a legitimate reason for them to write an autobiography probably suggests that their life is not boring. It may even feel like fiction, it so not like my boring life. But whatever my the reason, Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography was the first one I've read. What a great way to start - because his life is AMAZBALLS.
First off, I listened to the audiobook - narrated by Neil Patrick Harris (NPH) himself. And he's such a skilled entertainer, he really carried me away quickly into his life tale. There's little bits sporadically from people he's known, writing anecdotes about NPH and a different narrator tells all of those. The only thing that could have made the audio experience better would have been each of those people voicing their parts. I also imagine it would have been uber expensive, since you have people like Whoopi Goldberg, Seth Farland and Kelly Rippa in the mix.
A couple treats you get that you couldn't get from the print version are - 1: A section annotated by David (NPH's partner), in his voice and 2- a recording of child NPH giving an optimism speech. Both are brilliant and put huge smiles on my face.
You do miss out by doing audio too, though. He frequently mentions drink recipes and a couple food recipes from the included PDF - which of course you don't have (maybe you do get that with the cd rather than audible download?). There's also the choose your own adventure aspect - obviously you can't pick an adventure and change tracts frequently. But the audiobook has been recorded with that in mind, pulling you along to all the possible scenarios in its own order. I like to think it's a little treat, since now you get the story in an order chosen for you by NPH (or, more likely, his editor). How cool!
NPH wrote the autobiography using the pronoun "you" instead of "I", which was both unexpected and great. I think you get more swept up in things and feel more part of what's happening when it's "you." And it did lead to a few hilariously weird sentences. But the whole autobiography was sprinkled with funny word-play.
The choose your own autobiography led to some hilarious, fictional endings to NPH's life. But I LMAO, literally aloud (on walks, around strangers who looked at me weird), throughout the whole book. NPH's ability to make you laugh while telling a story really shone through.
But the reason I loved NPH's autobiography so much was actually all the heartwarming moments. NPH has been a fairly private celebrity (for which I don't blame him one bit) and I think it made these glimpses into his private life all the more special. I nearly wept when he talked about the birth of Harper and Gideon. I wore a ridiculous smile every time he talked about his amazing family. I loved watching his journey to acceptance of who he was as a gay man, all under the microscope of being a child star.
If, like me, autobiographies really aren't your thing - I urge you to cast your assumptions aside, at least for this one. Its humorous and heartwarming, jaw dropping and times and there's even magic :)
This book was so funny; it really brightened my day while I was home sick from work. I loved the Choose Your Own Adventure Books when I was a kid, so I thought this was an awesome concept for this autobiography. He totally pulled it off.
It was a cute story and really informed me about a lot of projects that he had going on that I didn't know about. It seems like he really is in a good place. It will be interesting to see if his children ever make the tabloids.
I've never been a huge NPH fan. In fact, I probably haven't earned the right to call him NPH. Still, this book was pretty interesting, and the idea of structuring it like a Choose Your Own Adventure book was entertaining (though it didn't really work in audio).
Funny and easy to read. If only he didn't shill for the Landmark Forum.