This Is an AudioBook

by Demetri Martin Narrated by Demetri Martin

Overview

From the renowned comedian, creator, star and executive producer/multiple title-holder of Comedy Central's Important Things with Demetri Martin comes a bold, original, and rectangular kind of humor book.

Demetri's first literary foray features longer-form essays and conceptual pieces (such as Protagonists' Hospital, a melodrama about the clinic doctors who treat only the flesh wounds and minor head scratches of Hollywood action heroes), as well as his trademark charts, doodles, drawings, one-liners, and lists (i.e., the world views of optimists, pessimists and contortionists), Martin's material is varied, but his unique voice and brilliant mind will keep readers in stitches from beginning to end.

Editorial Reviews

SEPTEMBER 2011 - AudioFile

Martin performs this audiobook in the same manner that has gained him popularity as a comedian: a dry, almost-morose delivery. When it works well, it serves as excellent contrast to the sometimes absurdly goofy ideas Martin presents. However, while this disinterested, even reluctant, tone consistently works well with a stage performance, it falls short at times in the production. When it does fail, it is because the joke being executed is not particularly funny. Though the laughs start out consistently at the beginning, they fade as one moves through the book. As they do so, Martin’s dull tone does not maintain its charm and leaves listeners even less engaged. L.E. 2012 Audies Finalist © AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine

SEPTEMBER 2011 - AudioFile

Martin performs this audiobook in the same manner that has gained him popularity as a comedian: a dry, almost-morose delivery. When it works well, it serves as excellent contrast to the sometimes absurdly goofy ideas Martin presents. However, while this disinterested, even reluctant, tone consistently works well with a stage performance, it falls short at times in the production. When it does fail, it is because the joke being executed is not particularly funny. Though the laughs start out consistently at the beginning, they fade as one moves through the book. As they do so, Martin’s dull tone does not maintain its charm and leaves listeners even less engaged. L.E. 2012 Audies Finalist © AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940173498304
Publisher:	Hachette Audio
Publication date:	04/25/2011
Edition description:	Unabridged

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