About book I Found This Funny: My Favorite Pieces Of Humor And Some That May Not Be Funny At All (2010)
Good, not great. I was surprised to find that I had actually already encountered a fair amount of the stuff in this book in other places. In a way it felt a little warmed over. That being said, great pieces by Steve Martin, Jonathan Ames, Raymond Carver, Dave Eggers, and Rodney Rothman. I also really loved the Robert Smigel and Conan O'Brien pilot. It was something I had heard Conan talk about before, but it was a real delight to actually read it and kind of a bummer to know that it never took off. I would have watched it. Uh. I'm not really sure what to make of this collection. There's really no cohesive thread that links all the bits of writing together. They are presented in alphabetical order by author, which is strange. None of the stories are particularly "funny" but they are all brilliant examples of good writing. Some pieces I liked better than others, especially Tony hoagland's poems, but nothing really stuck out as the definitive piece of work, the one thing that I would remember forever. Overall, not terrible. 3.5 if half stars were allowed.
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Some were funny, some weren't funny--Mr. Apatow didn't lie, although I picked through it a bit.
—heather
Didn't find many of the essays funny so I stopped reading...
—lola
Fantastic variety of materials.
—AFairyTalePrincess
