John Hodgman
Autor/a de The Areas of My Expertise
Sobre l'autor
Crèdit de la imatge: John Hodgman at BookExpo at the Javits Center in New York City, May 2019. By Rhododendrites - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=79387555
Sèrie
Obres de John Hodgman
Volume 13: M (in McSweeney's 8 - EGGERS) 1 exemplars
Year Zero 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney's Humor Category (2004) — Col·laborador — 858 exemplars
You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain (2016) — Narrador, algunes edicions — 693 exemplars
How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical and Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers,… (2012) — Pròleg — 183 exemplars
The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart [2023 film] (2023) — Actor — 9 exemplars
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Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Hodgman, John Kellogg
- Altres noms
- The Deranged Millionaire
- Data de naixement
- 1971-06-03
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Educació
- Brookline High School, Brookline, MA
Yale College (BA|1994) - Professions
- literary agent
actor
humorist - Organitzacions
- Comedy Central
- Agent
- Kassie Evashevski
Membres
Ressenyes
The Areas of My Expertise: An Almanac of Complete… de John Hodgman
Really really funny, but too long
It's obviously not about vacations, though the author does 'summer' in New Hampshire and Maine and Maine's official motto is 'Vacationland'. Rather, these are the author's amusing anecdotes and deep thinking about those summers, along with childhood, growing up, adulting and death. I don't recall any LOL moments, but most stories are amusing and John Hodgman does a bang-up job on the audiobook as his own narrator, rendering them with a goodly amount of humor and pathos, as necessary.
I fell in love with John Hodgman's sensibility listening to his podcast, Judge John Hodgman. I think it was the 2nd episode, in which the weird dad wanted order his children to have a mime at his funeral. Hodgman is funny and practical and real (nevermind his previous books of "facts," which actually aren't my favorite) and can really get to the emotional heart of the matter in so many cases. So, I enjoyed reading more about him and some of his experiences, which for the most part came across as both humorous and poignant. I don't know how this book will land with those not already familiar with his work, but I enjoyed the heck out of it. I only wish I could have gotten the audiobook from my library.… (més)
I'm a huge fan of Hodman's podcast. This book is funny and poignant - some parts hit me hard in the feels, and some parts had me disturbing the family as I laughed (hard) out loud, and I flew through it in a flash. Obviously, if you do audiobooks, that's the right format for this one!
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 10
- També de
- 17
- Membres
- 4,611
- Popularitat
- #5,459
- Valoració
- 4.3
- Ressenyes
- 135
- ISBN
- 35
- Preferit
- 16
- Pedres de toc
- 88
