It is no hyperbole to say I love her approach-looking, listening, and describing with the observational skills of a scientist, the creativity of an artist, and the wit of a comedian." Despite her book’s title, Brosh’s stories feel incredibly-and sometimes brutally-real. The adventures she recounts are mostly inside her head, where we hear and see the kind of inner thoughts most of us are too timid to let out in public. "I must have interrupted Melinda a dozen times to read to her passages that made me laugh out loud. Perhaps I have underestimated my sneakiness!
Stories about things that happened to other people because of me So I decided to just make a list of things that are in the book: I tried to write a long, third-person summary that would imply how great the book is and also sound vaguely authoritative-like maybe someone who isn’t me wrote it-but I soon discovered that I’m not sneaky enough to pull it off convincingly. Because I wrote it, I had to figure out what to put on the back cover to explain what it is. This full-color, beautifully illustrated edition features more than fifty percent new content, with ten never-before-seen essays and one wholly revised and expanded piece as well as classics from the website like, “The God of Cake,” “Dogs Don’t Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving,” and her astonishing, “Adventures in Depression,” and “Depression Part Two,” which have been hailed as some of the most insightful meditations on the disease ever written.īrosh’s debut marks the launch of a major new American humorist who will surely make even the biggest scrooge or snob laugh.
“Funny and smart as hell” (Bill Gates), Allie Brosh’s Hyperbole and a Half showcases her unique voice, leaping wit, and her ability to capture complex emotions with deceptively simple illustrations.Įvery time Allie Brosh posts something new on her hugely popular blog Hyperbole and a Half the internet rejoices.
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