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Vacationland - True Stories from Painful Beaches (Paperback): John Hodgman Vacationland - True Stories from Painful Beaches (Paperback)
John Hodgman
R451 R385 Discovery Miles 3 850 Save R66 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"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.

Hail to the Chin - Further Confessions of A B Movie Actor (Paperback): Bruce Campbell, Craig Sanborn Hail to the Chin - Further Confessions of A B Movie Actor (Paperback)
Bruce Campbell, Craig Sanborn; Introduction by John Hodgman
R525 R433 Discovery Miles 4 330 Save R92 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
That Is All (Paperback): John Hodgman That Is All (Paperback)
John Hodgman
R472 Discovery Miles 4 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

John Hodgman-bestselling author, "The Daily Show"'s "Resident Expert," minor television celebrity, and deranged millionaire-brings us the third and final installment in his trilogy of Complete World Knowledge.

In 2005, Dutton published "The Areas of My Expertise," a handy little book of Complete World Knowledge, marked by the distinction that all of the fascinating trivia and amazing true facts were completely made up by its author, John Hodgman. At the time, Hodgman was merely a former literary agent and occasional scribbler of fake trivia. In short: a nobody.

But during an interview on "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart, an incredible transformation occurred. He became a famous minor television personality. You may ask: During his whirlwind tornado ride through the high ether of minor fame and outrageous fortune, did John Hodgman forget how to write books of fake trivia? The answer is: Yes. Briefly. But soon, he remembered

And so he returned, crashing his Kansas farmhouse down upon the wicked witch of ignorance with "More Information Than You Require," a "New York Times" bestseller containing even more mesmerizing and essential fake trivia, including seven hundred mole-man names (and their occupations).

And now, John Hodgman completes his vision with "That Is All," the last book in a trilogy of Complete World Knowledge. Like its predecessors, "That Is All" compiles incredibly handy made-up facts into brief articles, overlong lists, and beguiling narratives on new and familiar themes. It picks up exactly where "More Information" left off-specifically, at page 596-and finally completes COMPLETE WORLD KNOWLEDGE, just in time for the return of Quetzalcoatl and the end of human history in 2012.

The Areas Of My Expertise - A Compendium of Complete World Knowledge Compiled with Instructive Annotation and Arranged in... The Areas Of My Expertise - A Compendium of Complete World Knowledge Compiled with Instructive Annotation and Arranged in Useful Order by Mysel (Paperback)
John Hodgman
R586 R526 Discovery Miles 5 260 Save R60 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

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