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"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 that they are.
This is a lavish compendium of handy reference tables, fascinating
trivia and sage wisdom, all of it completely unresearched, entirely
undocumented and (presumably) wholly untrue, fabricated by the
illuminating and prodigious imagination of John Hodgman, a
certifiable genius.
"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 that they are.
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