Vacationland

By John Hodgman,

Book cover of Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches

Book description

“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…

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Why read it?

1 author picked Vacationland as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Looking for a break from research, I picked this volume up at random and found it among the funniest things I’ve ever read. In a series of self-effacing essays, Hodgman chronicles his challenges and triumphs of becoming a writer and a family man while moving around New York and New England.

Offering a mixture of sardonic self-evaluation, whimsy, and understandable bemusement at the world around him, the book will be a hoot for anyone who’s ever had to find their way in the world, or down a boat ramp on the coast of Maine.  

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