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Loading... Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches (original 2017; edition 2017)by John Hodgman (Author)
Work InformationVacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches by John Hodgman (2017)
   Must-Read Maine (20) Books Read in 2022 (601) To Read (28) » 7 more Amusing Book Titles (92) Books Read in 2017 (2,354) Books Read in 2018 (2,395) New England Books (51) 2010s (136) No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) zot79 | Aug 20, 2023 |  ) CarolHicksCase | Mar 12, 2023 | I enjoyed the first three-quarters of the book a lot. The style reminded me a little of David Sedaris. Hodgman writes about his life in a very self-aware, self-deprecating way. His observational humor rings very true. I loved his interpretation of the “No Bathroom” sign in the window of a gift shop in Maine. The chapter where he wouldn’t just come out and say he was talking about E.B. White—even though he gave enough clues for anyone to easily figure it out—threw me off, though. I didn’t get why he was being so cagey, and his tone shifted a little into something I didn’t like. Otherwise, I liked this a lot and recommend it. Although I can’t relate much to someone accidentally buying a boat or owning two summer homes, Hodgman’s humor, especially when it’s directed at his own foibles, is very relatable. ( ) Harks | Dec 17, 2022 | This book is by and about a guy of my demographic, approximately my age, waxing philosophic about aging and how that links to a place that I used to visit in the summer when I was extremely young. So it's pretty much my thing. Within those confines, it's funny in a way you probably expect, and, if not touching, than emotional in a way you might not. It is certainly very sincere. It is also quite short. ( ) danieljensen | Oct 14, 2022 |  ) katefren | Aug 15, 2022 | no reviews | add a review
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HTML:â??I love everything about this hilarious book except the font size.â?ť â??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 didnâ??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 th No library descriptions found. |
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