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3.95 AVERAGE
3.95 AVERAGE
I LOVE choose your own adventure and I LOVE NPH...and I guess I’ve also really been getting into autobiographical audiobooks about comedians read by the authors. So this ticked all my boxes.
It was well told and funny. A truly good read...errr listen... I think I would have enjoyed it more if I had read it, although listening to NPH was the best. It is just difficult to listen to a “choose your own adventure” even when it was nicely adapted for audiobook.
It was well told and funny. A truly good read...errr listen... I think I would have enjoyed it more if I had read it, although listening to NPH was the best. It is just difficult to listen to a “choose your own adventure” even when it was nicely adapted for audiobook.
Lovely book that was read by the author. I loved it and it made me understand his life so much more.! big love for this book and how open he was. it was so fun to read and learn about his life and career.
I made it through on the first try! Loved this book. It was quick, easy and fun to follow, and engaging from start to finish without feeling too inundated by another person's memoir (an odd thing to say when you're reading an autobiography because you know what you're getting into by reading it, I know, but I only picked this up to fulfill part of a "26 Books to Read in 2018" challenge). Harris is funny, has a fun life to read about, and hits all the basics of his life without languishing on certain moments for too long. Despite my flippant picking up of this book, it was fun to read, and I found myself enjoying this a lot more than I thought I would. The only reason I didn't give this 5 stars is because I felt like I hadn't fully finished the book since there were unexplored story lines I never read, and while I could go through and read them, the lack of continuity would leave me less satisfied with the book and will therefore be left alone.
This audiobook had everything I could ask for and more! And having NPH read it made it SO much more fun. Just the right mix of humor, life lessons, adventures, romance and behind the scenes gossip.
Following celebrities has never really been my thing. One of my favorite parts about checking out in the grocery store is chuckling about the ridiculous magazine headlines. As I never have the slightest inclination of who any of the people are, they read like hilarious one liners in soap operas. So, when I decided to read NPH's book I knew only a few things: 1). He stared in a lot of really bad made for TV movies; 2). He was married to a gorgeous guy who I had read about on cooking websites; and 3). He was apparently the exact opposite of Barney Stinson. Oh, and his “Bigger” number at the Tony’s was abso-freaking-lutley insane (seriously, if you haven’t seen it, stop reading right this instance and YouTube it. Seriously. Stop.).
I was not at all expecting a funny, heart-felt, love-filled story told in an unconventional way that makes me want to befriend a complete stranger. NPH is the kind of person you want with you on a beach in Greece, at a pizza place in ABQ, and sitting next you to on Peter Pan’s magical flight at Disney. This is the type of book you come back to when you aren’t sure that happy endings really exist or if there really is someone for everyone. I am impressed, NPH, and I’ll be right there laughing with you if you ever choose to put pen to paper again.
I was not at all expecting a funny, heart-felt, love-filled story told in an unconventional way that makes me want to befriend a complete stranger. NPH is the kind of person you want with you on a beach in Greece, at a pizza place in ABQ, and sitting next you to on Peter Pan’s magical flight at Disney. This is the type of book you come back to when you aren’t sure that happy endings really exist or if there really is someone for everyone. I am impressed, NPH, and I’ll be right there laughing with you if you ever choose to put pen to paper again.
nph is the greatest and this whole book is about him, so what's not to love? plus, it's choose your own adventure.
I feel like a bit of a bandwagoner here, but I fell in love with Neil Patrick Harris about the time he was doing How I Met Your Mother and hosting the Tonys. At some point, he started hosting just about everything and everyone loved him. But he's just so charming and genial -- how could you not love him?
I say this whenever I review a celebrity memoir but it's true. I really don't read a lot of celebrity memoirs. I probably would not have grabbed this one if it weren't for the hook: its constructed as a Choose Your Own Adventure novel, complete with dead ends and bee-bopping paths through the second-person narrative.
Party pooper that I am, I read the book straight through. I was just afraid of missing something! And I think it still worked that way. Even the scenes in which "you as NPH" destroy your career and plummet to you death weren't too weirdly jarring in that context, and it wasn't hard to follow things.
This book is a thoughtful, delightful memoir. It captures what it is that so many people love about Neil Patrick Harris: he's warm, he seems genuinely happy and kind, and he wants to entertain. He hasn't had the most difficult climb -- he's struggled with how to be honest about his sexuality and he's had career ups and downs, but his life seems to have been fairly pleasant. There's not a terrible amount of gossip here, either, just a few small throwaways. It's just a fun way for a fan to spend an afternoon.
I say this whenever I review a celebrity memoir but it's true. I really don't read a lot of celebrity memoirs. I probably would not have grabbed this one if it weren't for the hook: its constructed as a Choose Your Own Adventure novel, complete with dead ends and bee-bopping paths through the second-person narrative.
Party pooper that I am, I read the book straight through. I was just afraid of missing something! And I think it still worked that way. Even the scenes in which "you as NPH" destroy your career and plummet to you death weren't too weirdly jarring in that context, and it wasn't hard to follow things.
This book is a thoughtful, delightful memoir. It captures what it is that so many people love about Neil Patrick Harris: he's warm, he seems genuinely happy and kind, and he wants to entertain. He hasn't had the most difficult climb -- he's struggled with how to be honest about his sexuality and he's had career ups and downs, but his life seems to have been fairly pleasant. There's not a terrible amount of gossip here, either, just a few small throwaways. It's just a fun way for a fan to spend an afternoon.
the format just did not work. it felt like he wasn't really sure that he wanted to share anything too personal so when he kind of did he would follow it up with something over the top and gimmicky.
A really fun approach to an autobiography. I listened to the audiobook (because who doesn't want to listen to NPH?) but also flipped through the book to be able to do the "choose your own adventure" style first to see how that played out. (and then flipped through to see if in my bouncing around I'd missed any sections)
Wished there had been more included about his childhood. Entertaining enough read.