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The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee
by Sarah Silverman
What I have learned from this book: Sarah Silverman is a clever, sensitive, free-spirited clown who clearly adores her family and her friends, and who has no fear about talking honestly about her clinical depression or admitting that she wet the bed until she was 16.
Also: Steve Perry is a racist (or was that a joke? I don't even know) and Louis CK is reserved, mature, and very smart, in some ways as much like his Parks & Recreation character as his onstage character.
At this point I'm a little terrified by the possibility of Dane Cook or someone close to him writing a memoir. See, I'm pretty comfortable disliking his public comedic persona. I don't want to find out that he's like, a horror buff and huge online Scrabble player that just loves cats, or anything else that might endear me to him. I like forming opinions about people completely around how they act in front of a crowd, without having to consider the possibilities of nuance and "acting" for "money," and I don't enjoy having those presumptions challenged and proven to be wrong. Sarah Silverman, you have ruined me!
As for the book itself, I'm inclined to go with the general consensus of Goodreads. The beginning was significantly funnier than the rest of it; it does sort of deflate around page 120 or so, picking up again when she writes about her friends at The Sarah Silverman Program; it's definitely random and unorganized. But I have a small attention span and wasn't a huge fan of Sarah in the first place, and I still read all of it. Make of that what you will -- it's readable.
Also: Steve Perry is a racist (or was that a joke? I don't even know) and Louis CK is reserved, mature, and very smart, in some ways as much like his Parks & Recreation character as his onstage character.
At this point I'm a little terrified by the possibility of Dane Cook or someone close to him writing a memoir. See, I'm pretty comfortable disliking his public comedic persona. I don't want to find out that he's like, a horror buff and huge online Scrabble player that just loves cats, or anything else that might endear me to him. I like forming opinions about people completely around how they act in front of a crowd, without having to consider the possibilities of nuance and "acting" for "money," and I don't enjoy having those presumptions challenged and proven to be wrong. Sarah Silverman, you have ruined me!
As for the book itself, I'm inclined to go with the general consensus of Goodreads. The beginning was significantly funnier than the rest of it; it does sort of deflate around page 120 or so, picking up again when she writes about her friends at The Sarah Silverman Program; it's definitely random and unorganized. But I have a small attention span and wasn't a huge fan of Sarah in the first place, and I still read all of it. Make of that what you will -- it's readable.