One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories
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Average rating4
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Ratings36
Average rating4
"B.J. Novak's One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories is an endlessly entertaining, surprisingly sensitive, and startlingly original debut that signals the arrival of a brilliant new voice in American fiction. A boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes--only to discover how claiming the winnings might unravel his family. A woman sets out to seduce motivational speaker Tony Robbins--turning for help to the famed motivator himself. A new arrival in Heaven, overwhelmed with options, procrastinates over a long-ago promise to visit his grandmother. We also meet Sophia, the first artificially intelligent being capable of love, who falls for a man who might not be ready for it himself; a vengeance-minded hare, obsessed with scoring a rematch against the tortoise who ruined his life; and post-college friends who try to figure out how to host an intervention in the era of Facebook. Along the way, we learn why wearing a red T-shirt every day is the key to finding love, how February got its name, and why the stock market is sometimes just. down. Finding inspiration in questions from the nature of perfection to the icing on carrot cake, One More Thing has at its heart the most human of phenomena: love, fear, hope, ambition, and the inner stirring for the one elusive element that might just make a person complete."--
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It's hard to deny the imagination at work here. Every story takes an odd idea and runs with it. Some work wonderfully, poignant and hilarious. Others fall flat, pointless and underwhelming. But those stories that really hit the mark make all the rest worth it.
Saw this pop up on my feed and thought “Oh yeah, I read that when it came out!” Maybe I'll revisit it soon since I do remember enjoying it.
The best. This book makes me so happy. What's better than this book? The book trailer. That's right. Google it. Trust me.
I'd heard some of these stories on public radio and around the internet, and thought they were funny. And like, pretty much any one of these stories, if I'd seen them posted individually on McSweeney's, I'd probably “like” it or maybe even retweet it.
But when they're all put together, the overall effect is like, Okay, I GET it. I get it, you have an ironically reverent irreverance toward pop culture/politics/issues of import. I GET IT.
The audiobook might be more interesting because it's read by a bunch of Office alums & other comedians.
