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Chargement... Attempting Normalpar Marc Maron
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Great book ( ) if you're one of those people who listen to WTF and don't skip maron's long-winded, self-focused introductions, then this is for you. I'm one of those people, but this still got to be a bit too much marc maron for me, probably because a few of these stories were covered in those WTF intros. still, worth the read, but in small doses. So, I think I may have finished this book in record time, but that doesn't speak to much except that the past few days I've had less to do that normal and was inclined to read. Well, and it was a pretty good book. I'm a fan of Marc Maron. In fact, I may be a little obsessed. I had heard about his podcast a year or so ago, and it kept popping up, and I didn't really have a podcast I was listening to regularly since Keith Olbermann went off the air. So I gave it a try with his Chris Rock episode. that was a good one, but I didn't get fully on board right away. I downloaded only those big names I was interested in listening to, and generally speaking skipped Marc's intro rant. Funny. Now, I'll listen to the intro even if I don't intend to listen to the guest (like his recent interview with Huey Lewis), although I probably will listen, because even if I'm not interested in the guest I really dig Marc. He's funny, he suffers from some of the same anxieties as I do, and like all things that become routines in my life, he feels comfortable to me. I am nothing if not a creature of habit. That isn't to diminish the quality of his podcast, and I preordered his book because I really wanted to read it. He's an English major who went into a career that (believe it or not) I considered myself as a young boy-- though not at a time when I was seriously considering careers of any sort. I was never really going to be a comedian (I'm not funny), but I think Maron's and my brains work enough alike for me to be fascinated. So I ordered the book, and read it in two days. It was good, but then personal essays are easy to read. To be fair, the first few essays weren't as quick reads as the rest, for whatever reason. Maron's language is good, descriptive without being self-important, and he tells a good story. As some other writers of this genre are wont to do, Maron avoids spelling out the lessons of his experiences, unless it serves the joke, and I appreciate that. Didacticism is easy enough to come by, but there was never really any danger here. I don't think his intention was to teach us anything, anyway, but that's not to say he won't. As far as laughter goes, the second half ("Normal") is a bit more laugh-out-loud funny, but the whole book reads like a humorous conversation with a natural story teller. The story, in this case, is almost always Marc Maron and his life, but that's what you buy books like this for. In the most basic way, it's more honest as a result. I dunno. It's not a novel, there isn't really any subtext and I didn't react in any particular way to this book. Usually for these wanderings I find myself chasing some tangent or another, but this experience wasn't like that. Instead, it was an honest, interesting couple evenings with a guy who's voice is familiar enough to me that I could hear him narrate. Nothing less than I expected. Good times. I loved it, I recognized myself in certain parts, which made me feel both seen and heard. I relished the honesty. Reading it made me proud that I promote his show Maron via thedollop.net. It also made me a little horny. There's your stream-of-consciousness, alphabet soup, heartfelt, five-star review. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Biography & Autobiography.
Essays.
Nonfiction.
Humor (Nonfiction.)
HTML:NATIONAL BESTSELLER People make a mess. Marc Maron was a parent-scarred, angst-filled, drug-dabbling, love-starved comedian who dreamed of a simple life: a wife, a home, a sitcom to call his own. But instead he woke up one day to find himself fired from his radio job, surrounded by feral cats, and emotionally and financially annihilated by a divorce from a woman he thought he loved. He tried to heal his broken heart through whatever means he could find—minor-league hoarding, Viagra addiction, accidental racial profiling, cat fancying, flying airplanes with his mind—but nothing seemed to work. It was only when he was stripped down to nothing that he found his way back. Attempting Normal is Marc Maron’s journey through the wilderness of his own mind, a collection of explosively, painfully, addictively funny stories that add up to a moving tale of hope and hopelessness, of failing, flailing, and finding a way. From standup to television to his outrageously popular podcast, WTF with Marc Maron, Marc has always been a genuine original, a disarmingly honest, intensely smart, brutally open comic who finds wisdom in the strangest places. This is his story of the winding, potholed road from madness and obsession and failure to something like normal, the thrillingly comic journey of a sympathetic f***up who’s trying really hard to do better without making a bigger mess. Most of us will relate. Praise for Attempting Normal “I laughed so hard reading this book.”—David Sedaris “Funny . . . surprisingly deep . . . laced with revelatory insights.”—Los Angeles Times “Superb . . . A reason that [it] is a superior example of an overcrowded genre—the comedian memoir—is Mr. Maron’s hardheaded approach to his history, the wisdom of experience.”—The New York Times “Marc Maron is a legend because he is both a great comic and a brilliant mind. Attempting Normal is a deep, hilarious megashot of feeling and truth as only this man can administer.”—Sam Lipsyte Praise for Marc Maron and WTF “The stuff of comedy legend.”—Rolling Stone “Marc Maron is a startlingly honest, compelling, and hilarious comedian-poet. Truly one of the greatest of all time.”—Louis C.K. “I’ve known Marc for years and I can tell you first hand that he’s passionate, fearless, honest, self-absorbed, neurotic, and screamingly funny.”—David Cross “Revered among his peers . . . raw and unflinchingly honest.”—Entertainment Weekly “Devastatingly funny.”—Los Angeles Times “For a comedy nerd, this show is nirvana.”—Judd Apatow. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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