A review by hank
Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens by Eddie Izzard

4.0

This definitely needs to be listened to via audiobook rather than read. Izzard as a narrator is fantastic and due to his continual off the cuff footnotes I think the audiobook is about 20% longer than the actual book. As entertaining narrating, as he is doing standup (ok not really, it is only an auto-biography) Izzard's life is revealing, not so much as to how extraordinary it is but how normal it is. He achieved through a great deal of hard work and willingness to attempt new/hard things. He comes of as an incredibly smart, likeable, hard working professional who also happens to be funny. His capacity for a running monologue is astounding and entertaining. 4.5 stars rounded down because, memoirs aren't for everyone.