The other thing I learned from this book is that I have an awful lot in common with dogs, specifically Allie’s dogs.

I learned that from Allie, because I now understand how to make better use of the self-worth generating technique she uses. Therefore, I can believe for a moment that I am a fast reader and it is only the fault of Derrida and other people who write so convolutedly complicated that causes me to read 3-10 pages per hour -it is not my ineptitude or inability or lack of superior intelligence that causes that. I like that, and it makes me feel good about myself. One, my university tutor who informed me he can read 50 pages in three minutes not only impressed but intimidated me with that fact however, wherease I normally read about 10 academic pages an hour (or three if it is Derrida-like in nature), I was able to read about 40 pages an hour with this book. There are a few important outcomes I experienced while reading Hyperbole and a Half. the tricking machine), and less so because of the quality of her book, her ideas, thoughts, creative talent, and ability to draw stick figures better than me. Mostly, it is because I feel compelled to support the Allie Brosh self-worth generator (a.k.a. I am giving this e-book (which I read on my MacBook Air and by the way was 656 pages long) five stars. Perhaps I have underestimated my sneakiness! Stories about things that happened to other people because of me So I decided to just make a list of things that are in the book: 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. Because I wrote it, I had to figure out what to put on the back cover to explain what it is. 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.īrosh’s debut marks the launch of a major new American humorist who will surely make even the biggest scrooge or snob laugh. “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.Įvery time Allie Brosh posts something new on her hugely popular blog Hyperbole and a Half the internet rejoices.

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