This Is a Book
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Ratings5
Average rating3.4
From the renowned comedian, creator, star and executive producer/multiple title-holder of Comedy Central's Important Things with Demetri Martin comes a bold, original, and rectangular kind of humor book. Demetri's first literary foray features longer-form essays and conceptual pieces (such as Protagonists' Hospital, a melodrama about the clinic doctors who treat only the flesh wounds and minor head scratches of Hollywood action heroes), as well as his trademark charts, doodles, drawings, one-liners, and lists (i.e., the world views of optimists, pessimists and contortionists), Martin's material is varied, but his unique voice and brilliant mind will keep readers in stitches from beginning to end.
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Confession: I put off reading this until the day before it was due and I found that I could not renew it, so I read it under pressure! It was pretty funny. Some of the stories dragged (and so I found myself skimming past them quickly) but there's a good variety here and some of the stories were hilarious. I wish there had been more drawings and charts. Overall–pretty funny, but not as entertaining as his standup (as seems to be the case for most comedians who write books).
