Vacationland by John Hodgman
I love everything about this hilarious book except the font size. --Jon Stewart Although his career as a bestselling author and on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart was founded on fake news and invented facts, in 2016 that routine didn't seem as funny to John Hodgman anymore. Everyone is doing it now. Disarmed of falsehood, he was left only with the awful truth: John Hodgman is an older white male monster with bad facial hair, wandering like a privileged Sasquatch through three wildernesses: the hills of Western Massachusetts where he spent much of his youth; the painful beaches of Maine that want to kill him (and some day will); and the metaphoric haunted forest of middle age that connects them. Vacationland collects these real life wanderings, and through them you learn of the horror of freshwater clams, the evolutionary purpose of the mustache, and which animals to keep as pets and which to kill with traps and poison. There is also some advice on how to react when the people of coastal Maine try to sacrifice you to their strange god. Though wildly, Hodgmaniacally funny as usual, it is also a poignant and sincere account of one human facing his forties, those years when men in particular must stop pretending to be the children of bright potential they were and settle into the failing bodies of the wiser, weird dads that they are.John Hodgman is an actor, writer, and comedian. He has three New York Times best-selling books: The Fields of My Knowledge, More Information Than You Require, and That Is It. He was welcomed back as a contributor after an appearance on The Daily Show to promote his books, serving as the show's Resident Expert and Deranged Millionaire. This led to an unexpected and, to be honest, unbelievable career in front of the camera. He's done stand-up for the president of the United States, at a TED conference, and in a mausoleum in Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery.
Finally, he is the host of the renowned Judge John Hodgman podcast, in which he settles real-life conflicts like Is a hot dog a sandwich? He is now working on Vacationland, a memoir that will be released in October 2017.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780735224803 |
| ISBN 10 | 0735224803 |
| Title | Vacationland |
| Author | John Hodgman |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Prentice Hall Press |
| Year published | 2017-10-24 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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