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A review by chelseakasten
Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere by Maria Bamford
challenging
dark
funny
fast-paced
4.5
As a lover of dark comedy and sufferer of “the mentals,” I found this book to be hysterical. I laughed out loud frequently; there’s even a sense of levity during the most deeply serious of topics.
As noted in the intro, this book doesn’t have much structure. Overall I wasn’t bothered by this although there were a few pieces where I felt there could have been more of an editorial or stylistic transition to note the end of a story. At times, it seemed like small but delightful stories (like the peanut butter pug face for Nick Kroll) were unceremoniously crammed into larger stories without an ending, thereby giving the feeling that I missed something in my reading.
As noted in the intro, this book doesn’t have much structure. Overall I wasn’t bothered by this although there were a few pieces where I felt there could have been more of an editorial or stylistic transition to note the end of a story. At times, it seemed like small but delightful stories (like the peanut butter pug face for Nick Kroll) were unceremoniously crammed into larger stories without an ending, thereby giving the feeling that I missed something in my reading.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Mental illness
Moderate: Suicide, Death of parent, and Animal death