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I ripped through this in a morning. It has no right to be so compelling - it's a series of non-specific memoir-y essays accompanied by crude drawings. Compelling it is, though. Allie's honesty about her deepest, darkest fears rang true for me.
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As a big fan of Brosh's blog (also titled Hyperbole and a Half), I knew I would enjoy this book. Brosh's writing and intentionally crude illustrations run through a spectrum of emotions and experiences, from simple entertainment to deep introspection to utterly relatable issues of being human. Personally I don't think her writing is as well suited to book format as blog format, but that was helped by breaking up the reading into chunks instead of reading straight through.
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Some parts were laugh out loud funny, some were touching, others were disappointing. This could have been a better book. It's a shame it wasn't, because I love brosh's voice when she's good.
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If only for the all-too-familiar exploits of the Simple Dog and the Helper Dog, I would treasure this book, but Brosh also includes her work on Depression, which is so insightful and incisive it will change your thinking, and straight-up humor like Party, which caused facial muscle spasms due to my laughing so hard. ...more
If only for the all-too-familiar exploits of the Simple Dog and the Helper Dog, I would treasure this book, but Brosh also includes her work on Depression, which is so insightful and incisive it will change your thinking, and straight-up humor like Party, which caused facial muscle spasms due to my laughing so hard. ...more
any book that makes me laugh aloud in my empty house is a 5 star book. even though I'd read some of these before, it was great to read them again. Brosh is a born storyteller and adept cartoonist. but you probably already knew this.
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