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Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches (urspr publ 2017; utgåvan 2017)

av John Hodgman (Författare)

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Biography & Autobiography. Performing Arts. Travel. Nonfiction. HTML:??I love everything about this hilarious book except the font size.? ??Jon Stewart

Although his career as a bestselling author and on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart was founded on fake news and invented facts, in 2016 that routine didn??t seem as funny to John Hodgman anymore. Everyone is doing it now. 
 
Disarmed of falsehood, he was left only with the awful truth: John Hodgman is an older white male monster with bad facial hair, wandering like a privileged Sasquatch through three wildernesses: the hills of Western Massachusetts where he spent much of his youth; the painful beaches of Maine that want to kill him (and some day will); and the metaphoric haunted forest of middle age that connects them.
 
Vacationland collects these real life wanderings, and through them you learn of the horror of freshwater clams, the evolutionary purpose of the mustache, and which animals to keep as pets and which to kill with traps and poison. There is also some advice on how to react when the people of coastal Maine try to sacrifice you to their strange god.
 
Though wildly, Hodgmaniacally funny as usual, it is also a poignant and sincere account of one human facing his forties, those years when men in particular must stop pretending to be the children of bright potential they were and settle into the failing bodies of the wiser, weird dads th
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Titel:Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches
Författare:John Hodgman (Författare)
Info:Viking (2017), Edition: 2nd prt., 272 pages
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It's obviously not about vacations, though the author does 'summer' in New Hampshire and Maine and Maine's official motto is 'Vacationland'. Rather, these are the author's amusing anecdotes and deep thinking about those summers, along with childhood, growing up, adulting and death. I don't recall any LOL moments, but most stories are amusing and John Hodgman does a bang-up job on the audiobook as his own narrator, rendering them with a goodly amount of humor and pathos, as necessary. ( )
  zot79 | Aug 20, 2023 |
I fell in love with John Hodgman's sensibility listening to his podcast, Judge John Hodgman. I think it was the 2nd episode, in which the weird dad wanted order his children to have a mime at his funeral. Hodgman is funny and practical and real (nevermind his previous books of "facts," which actually aren't my favorite) and can really get to the emotional heart of the matter in so many cases. So, I enjoyed reading more about him and some of his experiences, which for the most part came across as both humorous and poignant. I don't know how this book will land with those not already familiar with his work, but I enjoyed the heck out of it. I only wish I could have gotten the audiobook from my library. ( )
  CarolHicksCase | Mar 12, 2023 |
I didn’t know much about John Hodgman before I started this book, but my brother-in-law recommended it, and he hasn’t steered me wrong yet. You’ll know by the amount of highlighting I did that I appreciate Hodgman’s sense of humor. I laughed a lot and read several passages out loud to my husband while reading this.
I enjoyed the first three-quarters of the book a lot. The style reminded me a little of David Sedaris. Hodgman writes about his life in a very self-aware, self-deprecating way. His observational humor rings very true. I loved his interpretation of the “No Bathroom” sign in the window of a gift shop in Maine.
The chapter where he wouldn’t just come out and say he was talking about E.B. White—even though he gave enough clues for anyone to easily figure it out—threw me off, though. I didn’t get why he was being so cagey, and his tone shifted a little into something I didn’t like.
Otherwise, I liked this a lot and recommend it. Although I can’t relate much to someone accidentally buying a boat or owning two summer homes, Hodgman’s humor, especially when it’s directed at his own foibles, is very relatable. ( )
  Harks | Dec 17, 2022 |
There's this maxim in Silicon Valley that as long as you are a twenty-something white male with a specific problem, there's an app for that problem. Because, obviously, the vast majority of app developers there are twenty-something white males.

This book is by and about a guy of my demographic, approximately my age, waxing philosophic about aging and how that links to a place that I used to visit in the summer when I was extremely young. So it's pretty much my thing.

Within those confines, it's funny in a way you probably expect, and, if not touching, than emotional in a way you might not. It is certainly very sincere. It is also quite short. ( )
  danieljensen | Oct 14, 2022 |
I loved it! Laughed the whole way through. ( )
  katefren | Aug 15, 2022 |
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Biography & Autobiography. Performing Arts. Travel. Nonfiction. HTML:??I love everything about this hilarious book except the font size.? ??Jon Stewart

Although his career as a bestselling author and on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart was founded on fake news and invented facts, in 2016 that routine didn??t seem as funny to John Hodgman anymore. Everyone is doing it now. 
 
Disarmed of falsehood, he was left only with the awful truth: John Hodgman is an older white male monster with bad facial hair, wandering like a privileged Sasquatch through three wildernesses: the hills of Western Massachusetts where he spent much of his youth; the painful beaches of Maine that want to kill him (and some day will); and the metaphoric haunted forest of middle age that connects them.
 
Vacationland collects these real life wanderings, and through them you learn of the horror of freshwater clams, the evolutionary purpose of the mustache, and which animals to keep as pets and which to kill with traps and poison. There is also some advice on how to react when the people of coastal Maine try to sacrifice you to their strange god.
 
Though wildly, Hodgmaniacally funny as usual, it is also a poignant and sincere account of one human facing his forties, those years when men in particular must stop pretending to be the children of bright potential they were and settle into the failing bodies of the wiser, weird dads th

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