Megan Mullally

Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally talk about Megan's life mostly, as he already covered his in Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living, and share details about their long relationship and thoughts on many random topics. They made for pleasant company on a pair of road trips I took to see my daughter at Thanksgiving and to pick her up for a Christmas visit.

Listening to this audiobook is like listening to a podcast rather than a traditional narration. And yet it leaves me with the impression that much of the book must have been recorded, transcribed and edited, and then Offerman and Mullally treated the result as a script to be reenacted instead of just read aloud. This is made more obvious by the more free-wheeling and unpolished bonus chapter of the audiobook about the couple's likes and dislikes that sounds like it was recorded on the fly in the studio.

Another bonus of the audiobook is an extensive description of the photo section of the print book. I recommend picking up the paper version see those photographs as well as the many more pictures and illustrations the audiobook cannot include. And if you have only read the print edition, you might want to pick up the audiobook to get all the extras there.

FOR REFERENCE:

Contents: Introduction. Blastoff! -- Chapter 1. The Story of How We Met -- Bake amazing cookies / by Nick -- Chapter 2. You're Just Trying to Get in on the Action Because Your Family Is Like a Norman Rockwell Painting -- My Life as a Stripper / by Megan -- Chapter 3. I Came out of the Womb in a Top Hat and Tap Shoes -- Sex ninja / by Nick -- Chapter 4. You're So Much of a Whore -- Domestic competence / by Nick -- Chapter 5. That's Why We're in Love -- Pictures of Us! -- Chapter 6. Paper Doll -- Booty tips / by Megan -- Chapter 7. It's Hard to Complain with a Mouthful of Puss/Couple Goals -- David Lynch: Palm Reader / by Megan -- Chapter 8. I Would Have Had Such a Good Speech -- Puzzles We Did! -- Chapter 9. Fresh to a Fault -- Acknowledgments -- Credits [ -- Bonus Chapter (for Audio Only). Likes and Dislikes -- Credits for the Audio Book]… (more)

Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally are my favorite celebrity couple. That being said I had very high expectations from this book. Unfortunately those expectations weren't met; I expected to read little essays about one another, but instead felt as though I was reading a transcript from a variety of jumbled interviews. While I liked a lot of this book, especially the way Nick Offerman spoke of his life growing up with his siblings on his family's humble farm, I wasn't necessarily "wowed" by anything in particular. I imagine this book would've read much better as an audiobook.… (more)