Overview:
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.
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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Review:
There were a couple standout funny moments in the book, but honestly I found Martin's writing and drawings more interesting than funny. I enjoyed his short fiction stories, as well as his random listings. Very clever indeed.
If you were to purchase this book- without knowing Demetri Martin (which I didn't)- based solely on the star studded reviews on the back cover, I think you'd believe the book was more laugh-out-loud funny than it is. That being said...I could picture Martin and Jason Schwartzman collaborating really well together. |
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