"Anyone seeking an accessible look at someone suffering from depression or some really delightful dog drawings need search no further."-Time Out New York "The whole blog is inspired."-Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Dish (The Atlantic) "Get this for the smart people who appreciate humor in your life, and they won't be "Brosh is a connoisseur of the human condition."-Kirkus Reviewsīrosh is an evocative writer who bares her foibles and shortcomings, from childhood to her present life, with a lack of vanity and a sense of catharsis that is palpable.-Publishers Weekly Plus, doggies!-Jenny Lawson, The Bloggess and author of Let's Pretend This Never HappenedĪn Internet-era treasure, an unexpected wonder of the 21st century.-Cory Doctorow, It was honest, poignant, and ridiculously silly in all the best ways and I'm better for having read it. "One of the best things I've ever read in my life."-Marc Maron This is the BOOK OF THE YEAR.-Elizabeth Gilbert
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Will make you laugh until you sob, even when Brosh describes her struggle with depression.- "Entertainment Weekly" "Brosh captures humanity at its simultaneous worst and best with a razor wit that allows us to laugh at even our darkest of selves."-The Advocate (Baton Rouge) Brosh's bracing honesty is a gift."-Chicago Tribune "In a culture that encourages people to carry mental illness as a secret burden.
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"I would gladly pay to sit in a room full of people reading this book, merely to share the laughter."-Philadelphia Inquirer Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Humor Book of the YearĪ Library Journal Best Book of the Year, Memoirs. Enchanting.- "People (4 stars, People Pick)" Brosh's inquisitive mind won me over, too."-Dwight Garner "New York Times" The subjects run from light (cakes, dogs) to dark (the author's own severe depression), and they foreground offbeat feeling and real intellect. I had to find out what the fuss was about. Brosh, who runs a popular web comic and blog. My wife, who rarely reads a book published after 1910 and who is difficult to make laugh, wept with pleasure while reading these comic illustrated essays from Ms. 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.-Bill Gates 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.
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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.
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"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.