Yearbook
Ratings70
Average rating4.2
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Ratings70
Average rating4.2
INSTANT #1 BESTSELLER FINALIST for the 2021 National Jewish Book Awards SHORTLISTED for the 2022 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize A collection of funny personal essays from one of the writers of Superbad and Pineapple Express and one of the producers of The Disaster Artist, Neighbors, and The Boys. (All of these words have been added to help this book show up in people’s searches using the wonders of algorithmic technology. Thanks for bearing with us!) Hi! I’m Seth! I was asked to describe my book, Yearbook, for the inside flap (which is a gross phrase) and for websites and shit like that, so… here it goes!!! Yearbook is a collection of true stories that I desperately hope are just funny at worst, and life-changingly amazing at best. (I understand that it’s likely the former, which is a fancy “book” way of saying “the first one.”) I talk about my grandparents, doing stand-up comedy as a teenager, bar mitzvahs, and Jewish summer camp, and tell way more stories about doing drugs than my mother would like. I also talk about some of my adventures in Los Angeles, and surely say things about other famous people that will create a wildly awkward conversation for me at a party one day. I hope you enjoy the book should you buy it, and if you don’t enjoy it, I’m sorry. If you ever see me on the street and explain the situation, I’ll do my best to make it up to you.
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Read this in the middle of the night when I couldn't sleep. I'm not sure I knew who Seth Rogan was before this, but his essays are funny and I like his politics. Four stars, two thumbs.
Very entertaining! No surprise that Seth Rogen is a talented comedy writer. I laughed out loud quite often. Also fun to read about the real-life experiences that influenced his movies, and to get some insight into the strange world of Hollywood. While it's mostly a surface-level memoir of his life's funnier (vs most impactful) moments, Rogen does skirt some interesting deeper questions (about drug use, anti-Semitism, free speech, etc.). Definitely recommend this delightful read!
This book was a breath of fresh air. I laughed out loud repeatedly. I felt like Seth Rogen was talking to me the same way his dialogue unspools in his films. No filter, no edit just straight talk and wow does he cover some topics. There are several famous people in this book that he straight up wrecks. To be fair- sounds like they deserved it. There were so many song and movie references that I knew and loved that I had such a good time reading about Seth's life. This was a blast.
I'm not a huge fan of Seth Rogen, but he can certainly be funny and charming so I thought hearing stories from, especially about the film industry, could be entertaining. And they are, I really liked his behind-the-scenes takes from some movies or about certain celebrities. A lot of them are just very strange interactions that he seems to have been bewildered by. I'm not as big of a fan of drug trip stories though and that's about a third of this book, but you kind of have to expect that from a Seth Rogen.
Overall a pretty fun quick read and it was nice to listen to the audiobook narrated by Rogen himself and featuring a bunch of other actors.
