Fat Bald Jeff

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Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802198074
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Book Synopsis Fat Bald Jeff by : Leslie Stella

Download or read book Fat Bald Jeff written by Leslie Stella and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A slacker hell [with] a disgruntled, wisecracking protagonist . . . A hilarious send-up of hippies and hipsters” from the author of Permanent Record (Kirkus Reviews). Addie Prewitt is a copyeditor for the National Association of Libraries. When her boss, the repulsive Coddles, heaps another new project on her department—with no additional remuneration naturally—she decides she’s had enough. While spending her days battling with her roommate about whether Black Sabbath or Neil Diamond will occupy the turntable and her nights beating her overeager suitor away from the door of her boudoir, Addie discovers a piece of vile pornography in Coddles’s dry cleaning. Finally, she has the means to retaliate. Meanwhile, Fat Bald Jeff, the tech-support guy who has to cope with her mechanical self-sabotage, turns out to be even more disaffected than she, and they hatch the ultimate plan to give the pigs some of their own medicine. With a surreal wit and a keen eye that bring to mind Lily Tomlin set loose in Dilbert-world, Fat Bald Jeff is a sharp satire and a paean to the petty humiliations of workers everywhere. “Stella provides a lot of freshly imagined fun . . . There are so many funny lines and scenes that even librarians may like it. As for the lumpen—they’ll love it.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Warm the pockets of your heart watching this bereft waif find a little happiness in life.” —Mademoiselle “Amusing . . . caustic . . . entertaining . . . Read on company time!” —US Weekly “A fun, harmless, and quick read. Don’t look for inspiration, just amusement.” —Booklist

Insane Idiots

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Publisher : James M. Spears
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Insane Idiots written by James M. Spears and published by James M. Spears. This book was released on 2015-10-19 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen of the funniest stories in the world!

Krazy Folks Krackin' Up

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Publisher : James M. Spears
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 55 pages
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Download or read book Krazy Folks Krackin' Up written by James M. Spears and published by James M. Spears. This book was released on 2015-10-18 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen of the funniest stories in the world

Hair!

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Publisher : AtRandom
ISBN 13 : 0679647090
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (796 download)

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Book Synopsis Hair! by : Gersh Kuntzman

Download or read book Hair! written by Gersh Kuntzman and published by AtRandom. This book was released on 2001-04-03 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hair! Mankind's Historic Quest to End Baldness is a social history of one of humanity's most irksome problems: male pattern baldness. Throughout the centuries, Man (not his real name) has tried everything to hide, treat and repair baldness, as well as a host of nostrums designed to coax hair growth from the scalp (or, at least, money from the wallets of unsuspecting baldies). Yet we stand on the brink of a truly historic epoch: Two drugs are now federally approved remedies for baldness and more are on the way while surgical techniques continue to improve, and even hairpieces are becoming acceptable again. Will baldness, the stigma it carries, and the profound psychological toll it takes on men soon be things of the past? Will bald men someday be electable? Are these even rhetorical questions? Gersh Kuntzman takes you from the laboratories of Merck, maker of Propecia, to the operating rooms of the nation's best hair-transplant surgeons, to the rug men working on the cutting edge of artificial hair design. Hair! covers baldness like nothing before.

Mastering Diabetes

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 059318999X
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)

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Book Synopsis Mastering Diabetes by : Cyrus Khambatta, PhD

Download or read book Mastering Diabetes written by Cyrus Khambatta, PhD and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The instant New York Times bestseller. A groundbreaking method to master all types of diabetes by reversing insulin resistance. Current medical wisdom advises that anyone suffering from diabetes or prediabetes should eat a low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet. But in this revolutionary book, Cyrus Khambatta, PhD, and Robby Barbaro, MPH, rely on a century of research to show that advice is misguided. While it may improve short-term blood glucose control, such a diet also increases the long-term risk for chronic diseases like cancer, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, chronic kidney disease, and fatty liver disease. The revolutionary solution is to eat a low-fat plant-based whole-food diet, the most powerful way to reverse insulin resistance in all types of diabetes: type 1, type 1.5, type 2, prediabetes, and gestational diabetes. As the creators of the extraordinary and effective Mastering Diabetes Method, Khambatta and Barbaro lay out a step-by-step plan proven to reverse insulin resistance-the root cause of blood glucose variability- while improving overall health and maximizing life expectancy. Armed with more than 800 scientific references and drawing on more than 36 years of personal experience living with type 1 diabetes themselves, the authors show how to eat large quantities of carbohydrate-rich whole foods like bananas, potatoes, and quinoa while decreasing blood glucose, oral medication, and insulin requirements. They also provide life-changing advice on intermittent fasting and daily exercise and offer tips on eating in tricky situations, such as restaurant meals and family dinners. Perhaps best of all: On the Mastering Diabetes Method, you will never go hungry. With more than 30 delicious, filling, and nutrient-dense recipes and backed by cutting-edge nutritional science, Mastering Diabetes will help you maximize your insulin sensitivity, attain your ideal body weight, improve your digestive health, gain energy, live an active life, and feel the best you've felt in years.

Egghead

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Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 145551912X
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (555 download)

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Book Synopsis Egghead by : Bo Burnham

Download or read book Egghead written by Bo Burnham and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A strange and charming collection of hilariously absurd poetry, writing, and illustration from one of today's most popular young comedians?Ķ Bo Burnham was a precocious teenager living in his parents' attic when he started posting material on YouTube. 100 million people viewed those videos, turning Bo into an online sensation with a huge and dedicated following. Bo taped his first of two Comedy Central specials four days after his 18th birthday, making him the youngest to do so in the channel's history. Now Bo is a rising star in the comedy world, revered for his utterly original and intelligent voice. And, he can SIIIIIIIIING! In Egghead, Bo brings his brand of brainy, emotional comedy to the page in the form of off-kilter poems, thoughts, and more. Teaming up with his longtime friend, artist, and illustrator Chance Bone, Bo takes on everything from death to farts in this weird book that will make you think, laugh and think, "why did I just laugh?"

Crazy Janitors

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Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1496947363
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (969 download)

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Book Synopsis Crazy Janitors by : Ruth Toby

Download or read book Crazy Janitors written by Ruth Toby and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-10-24 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cathy and Rick are the owners of a janitorial company. Their employees are ruining homes and annoying their employers. Janitor Fat John eats the oysters, a treat for Mrs. Schmitt's daughter. In another house, Fat John was chased out with ripe tomatoes. Stale Kronchy, who starts shooting at Rick, is chasing Rick in the freeway. Stale was held by a fat black policewoman who kept forting, shouting, and slapping Stale while the wind blows away her wig. The janitorial company's owner Rick is making love to Christine when Cathy, his wife, is calling him, and she hears Christine moan "Oh little hot dog"--which was Cathy and Rick's sexual attribute. Cathy buys a big doll from a sex shop as a gift to punish Rick, but the former loves it. Joseph Zigler, a young Orthodox Jew, gives Rick a phony address and a phone number, and he starts to clean a house when he slides and breaks things, ending in falling into a cactus. Terrified, he runs away from the house. Stale Kronchy behaves unconventionally in a session with a woman psychologist, and when he comes out, he finds out that Fat John and Pat are janitors working for Rick. Stale kidnaps the janitors and forces them to clean his very filthy mobile home under the watch of a big bold dog called Kojak. Stale leaves the two janitors without any transportation. Stale and Kojak are seen sitting under a tree outside a church, where a wedding party is prepared with food and drinks. Blowie Scooprider, a weirdo who owns a talent agency, receives Pat to clean his office. He falls in love with Pat, sending her cheap and strange gifts. Debbie, an attractive blond, is sexually harassed while she cleans an office building. She gets a cleaning job in a big estate in Beverly Hills belonging to Helen, a lesbian who falls in love with Debbie. Ed Barnstoff believes in getting women with a lot of bullshit and pretends that a house of a client is his own. He wears their jewelries and dressing gown, smokes their cigar, and succeeds into luring a young woman for sex. Rick's client Paul O'Hare is getting married outside the same church where Stale and Kojak, the dog, are waiting for the food. Stale orders Kojak to bring him food. Kojak is bringing Stale a whole chicken and then a bottle of champagne. Stale Kronchy motions to Kojak to help himself to the food and then gives him the permission to have fun by ruining the whole party. The father of the bride hurries the priest to marry the couple before the groom changes his mind. He drags Father Murphy by his ear and calls the priest a faggot. Father Murphy was doing the wedding ceremony when Paul O'Hare, who is the groom, provides a folded fifty-dollar bill as a ring to his bride. Father Murphy sneezes, and his false teeth falls on Briggitte O'Hare, the new bride, losing her ring. Father Murphy picks it up and puts it in his pocket. Helen, Debbie's new friend, arranges a leaving party for Debbie, who is going to launch an acting career. Cathy arranges the party in her office. Blowie Scooprider arrives with a Rolls-Royce and a midget helper named Buru. Christine, Briggitte, and Cherry tricks Buru to go to the ladies' room. They take his entire clothes off, giggling and looking at his penis. They throw his clothes away through the window. Cathy finds out that Briggitte slept with Rick. Cathy is just about trashing Briggitte out from the party when the fat black policewoman arrives, inquiring about the noise. But then later, she joins the party.

Cheat

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451645694
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Cheat written by Bill Burr and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MONOGAMY HAS MET ITS MATCH When it comes to scoring on the side, this book is your best friend. Comedians Bill Burr, Joe DeRosa, and Robert Kelly have experienced the rich pleasures and unspeakable risks of romantic infidelity, and survived to tell their tales. Now, they impart all the wisdom, advice, and humor they picked up along the way, including how to: * Wipe away your shame and guilt—and get smart before you get hard * Conduct your filth with the right chick, in the right place, at the right time * Take an hour to shower and scour—and fight your worst enemy: glitter * Explain a strange scrunchy, hair extension, or pair of earrings to your girl * Navigate strip clubs, massage parlors, and women of the night Lie like a woman—and call it quits without getting caught Featuring ten true stories from men who’ve lived the life and a link to watch Burr, DeRosa, and Kelly’s hilarious short film of the same name, Cheat is a wickedly smart field guide to philandering that will revolutionize your game.

Leonardo’s life 1°

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Publisher : SEM - Servizi Editoriali & Multimediali
ISBN 13 : 8897093817
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (97 download)

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Book Synopsis Leonardo’s life 1° by : Dmitrij Sergéevic Merežkovskij

Download or read book Leonardo’s life 1° written by Dmitrij Sergéevic Merežkovskij and published by SEM - Servizi Editoriali & Multimediali. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who really was Leonardo da Vinci? The author of the Cenacolo of the Monna Lisa and many other masterpieces, or the Antichrist? The man of faith or a heretic? Perhaps of all, maybe more. It depends on how you look. Here is the first volume of the trilogy, “Leonardo’s life 1°- The witches' sabbath." Tells, through the eyes of his disciples, the man wanted by Ludovico il Moro to help him realize his unbridled political ambitions of Europe. With his many qualities and many defects. Among alchemists in search of the Philosopher's Stone, witches engaged in demonic Sabbath, Inquisition burning at the stake not only witches, but all the classical works, books, statues or paintings. A horror that even today we live.

I’M so Mad ‘Bout Get’N Old, I Could Die

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Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1463475926
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (634 download)

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Book Synopsis I’M so Mad ‘Bout Get’N Old, I Could Die by : Tommy L. Gardner

Download or read book I’M so Mad ‘Bout Get’N Old, I Could Die written by Tommy L. Gardner and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2005-01-20 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My book gives you a great chance to add a little humor to your life and the chance to go back to a happier time in life by remembering some of your stories that may relate to ones within the book. The stories came from real-life experiences, along with some that will tickle your funny bone or bring you to remember some of your own. The book is intended to show you how you can make the most of unfair or bad experiences. It will also help you leave the problems of the world behind for a while and enjoy some great stories about things you may or may not have thought of in years.

Mad to be Saved

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Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809321803
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (218 download)

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Book Synopsis Mad to be Saved by : David Sterritt

Download or read book Mad to be Saved written by David Sterritt and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film critic David Sterritt presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the Beat Generation, its intersections with main-stream and experimental film, and the interactions of all of these with American society and the culture of the 1950s. Sterritt balances the Beat countercultural goal of rebellion through both artistic creation and everyday behavior against the mainstream values of conformity and conservatism, growing worry over cold-war hostilities, and the "rat race" toward material success. After an introductory overview of the Beat Generation, its history, its antecedents, and its influences, Sterritt shows the importance of "visual thinking" in the lives and works of major Beat authors, most notably Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs. He turns to Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogic theory to portray the Beat writers-who were inspired by jazz and other liberating influences-as carnivalesque rebels against what they perceived as a rigid and stifling social order. Showing the Beats as social critics, Sterritt looks at the work of 1950s photographers Robert Frank and William Klein; the attack against Beat culture in the pictures and prose of Life magazine; and the counterattack in Frank's film Pull My Daisy, featuring key Beat personalities. He further explores expressions of rebelliousness in film noir, the melodramas of director Douglas Sirk, and other Hollywood films. Finally, Sterritt shows the changing attitudes toward the Beat sensibility in Beat-related Hollywood movies like A Bucket of Blood and The Beat Generation; television programs like Route 66 and The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis; nonstudio films like John Cassavetes's improvisational Shadows and Shirley Clarke's experimental The Connection; and radically avant-garde works by such doggedly independent screen artists as Stan Brakhage, Ron Rice, Bruce Connor, and Ken Jacobs, drawing connections between their achievements and the most subversive products of their Beat contemporaries.

How Triathlon Ruined My Life

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Publisher : Upfront Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781844264698
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (646 download)

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Book Synopsis How Triathlon Ruined My Life by : Darren Roberts

Download or read book How Triathlon Ruined My Life written by Darren Roberts and published by Upfront Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not a book about how to train for an Ironman, the kit you need or anything that could actually prove to be useful. If there is anything useful in this book then that's purely by accident. If you are looking for some genuine training tips on Ironman then please get one of the decent training books - not the 55,000 words of illiterate drivel this represents. This is a simply a story about someone (fat northerner in the shape of Darren) deciding to do something as stupid as Ironman and the things you encounter on the way. Such as the psychotic geese, paperless portaloos, the mind games and the doomsday feeling that no matter how much training you do it's never enough. Darren is fat, bald, ugly and lives in the North West of England with his wife Amy and daughter Lilly-Mae where he continues to try to be a triathlete.

My Cousin, the Alien

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Publisher : Millbrook Press
ISBN 13 : 1512456330
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (124 download)

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Book Synopsis My Cousin, the Alien by : Pamela F. Service

Download or read book My Cousin, the Alien written by Pamela F. Service and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! In this first book of the Alien Agent series, we meet Zack, a normal kid with a crazy cousin, Ethan, who thinks he's an alien. But is Ethan really crazy? And why do the same bald, odd-looking fat guys keep reappearing everywhere the boys go?

Humour and laughter

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Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412825741
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (128 download)

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Book Synopsis Humour and laughter by : Anthony J. Chapman

Download or read book Humour and laughter written by Anthony J. Chapman and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humor and laughter play a vital part in our everyday social encounters. In this book, well-known psychologists including Thomas R. Shultz, Mary K. Rathbart, and Goran Nerhardt explore the psychology of humor and laughter, examining the major theoretical perspectives underlying current approaches. This volume draws together the main empirical work done over the course of the twentieth century.

Why We Get Fat

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Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307474259
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis Why We Get Fat by : Gary Taubes

Download or read book Why We Get Fat written by Gary Taubes and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Taubes stands the received wisdom about diet and exercise on its head.” —The New York Times What’s making us fat? And how can we change? Building upon his critical work in Good Calories, Bad Calories and presenting fresh evidence for his claim, bestselling author Gary Taubes revisits these urgent questions. Featuring a new afterword with answers to frequently asked questions. Taubes reveals the bad nutritional science of the last century—none more damaging or misguided than the “calories-in, calories-out” model of why we get fat—and the good science that has been ignored. He also answers the most persistent questions: Why are some people thin and others fat? What roles do exercise and genetics play in our weight? What foods should we eat, and what foods should we avoid? Persuasive, straightforward, and practical, Why We Get Fat is an essential guide to nutrition and weight management. Complete with an easy-to-follow diet. Featuring a new afterword with answers to frequently asked questions.

Humor and Laughter

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351514202
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Humor and Laughter written by Hugh Foot and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humor and laughter play a vital part in our everyday social encounters. This book is concerned with the exploration of the psychology of humor and laughter by the foremost professional researchers in these areas. It examines the major theoretical perspectives underlying current approaches and it draws together for the first time the main empirical work done over the course of this century. Peter Berks brings this story up to the moment.The two major parts of the book deal with perception of and responses to humor, and its uses in society at large. The chapters themselves range from cognitive aspects of humor development, through the functions of humor and laughter in social interaction, to the use of humor by comedians and by the mass media. One of the general features of the volume is the concern with the variety of techniques and research methods which are used in studies aimed at understanding our responsiveness to humor and the contexts in which we create it.Humor and Laughter contains chapters by psychologists with longstanding research interests in humor and laughter, including Thomas R. Shultz, Mary K. Rothbart, Goran Nerhardt, Michael Godkewitsch, Walter E. O'Connell, and Harvey Mindess. Humor and Laughter presents wide-ranging theoretical, methodological, and empirical perspectives on an important area of human behavior and social interaction. This book should interest many behavioral scientists and practitioners, particularly those in social and clinical psychology, psychiatry, child psychology and education, sociology, and related disciplines.

My Life as a Goddess

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Publisher : Atria Books
ISBN 13 : 1501170236
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis My Life as a Goddess by : Guy Branum

Download or read book My Life as a Goddess written by Guy Branum and published by Atria Books. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Smart, fast, clever, and funny (As f*ck!)” (Tiffany Haddish), this collection of side-splitting and illuminating essays by the popular stand-up comedian, alum of Chelsea Lately and The Mindy Project, and host of truTV’s Talk Show the Game Show is perfect for fans of the New York Times bestsellers Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby. From a young age, Guy Branum always felt as if he were on the outside looking in. From a stiflingly boring farm town, he couldn’t relate to his neighbors. While other boys played outside, he stayed indoors reading Greek mythology. And being gay and overweight, he got used to diminishing himself. But little by little, he started learning from all the sad, strange, lonely outcasts in history who had come before him, and he started to feel hope. In this “singular, genuinely ballsy, and essential” (Billy Eichner) collection of personal essays, Guy talks about finding a sense of belonging at Berkeley—and stirring up controversy in a newspaper column that led to a run‑in with the Secret Service. He recounts the pitfalls of being typecast as the “Sassy Gay Friend,” and how, after taking a wrong turn in life (i.e. law school), he found stand‑up comedy and artistic freedom. He analyzes society’s calculated deprivation of personhood from fat people, and how, though it’s taken him a while to accept who he is, he has learned that with a little patience and a lot of humor, self-acceptance is possible. “Keenly observant and intelligent, Branum’s book not only offers uproarious insights into walking paths less traveled, but also into what self-acceptance means in a world still woefully intolerant of difference” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). My Life as a Goddess is an unforgettable and deeply moving book by one of today’s most endearing and galvanizing voices in comedy.