Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

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Beschreibung

#1 New York Times Bestseller

“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.

FROM THE PUBLISHER:
Every time Allie Brosh posts something new on her hugely popular blog Hyperbole and a Half the internet rejoices.

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.

Brosh’s debut marks the launch of a major new American humorist who will surely make even the biggest scrooge or snob laugh. We dare you not to.

FROM THE AUTHOR:
This is a book I wrote. Because I wrote it, I had to figure out what to put on the back cover to explain what it is. 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. So I decided to just make a list of things that are in the book:

Pictures
Words
Stories about things that happened to me
Stories about things that happened to other people because of me
Eight billion dollars*
Stories about dogs
The secret to eternal happiness*

*These are lies. Perhaps I have underestimated my sneakiness!
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369
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Beiträge

5
Alle
5

Every book that let's me laugh out real loud* deserves 5 stars! *I mean real loud! Not only a quiet snort through the nose or a tiny chuckle.

5

What I really liked about this book was the balance of pictures and text. It's funny written, absolutely adorable, trashy drawn in a way that nobody cares about how it looks because it weirdly fits so well with the funniness of the book. There are parts that were absolutely sad – and stayed sad. Which is a good thing because it gave the book the depth it needed to be taken seriously. That you could see that you could lighten up even the worst and saddest story if you let it be for some time (Okay, this is getting way too deep – let's move on). Loved it, would recommend it and also would read it again!

4

Allie Brosh is one of those few people who manages to tell outrageous stories in a relateable way. Her essay(s) on depression are among the best I've read.

4

Bloody brilliant! I absolutely loved this book! It was so funny and literally made me laugh out loud at several occasions (note: do not read in public if you tend to laugh like a maniac at funnily written/drawn stuff). The drawings were so trashy and looked so "bad" that they made the story even more funny than it already was. At some parts the story was weirdly relatable to me (especially the part about rules)! Oh and only halfway through did I realize that she's the one who drew the "do all the things" meme. You're a legend Allie! Would definitely recommend if you want to read something lighthearted, funny and quick :)

2

I wanted so bad to love this book but it fell flat for me. Especially towards the end, I really just struggled to make myself finish it. I just generally struggled through this read.

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