GoodReads Rating: 4.33/5
It’s a great time for
America’s beer drinkers. Craft beer is more popular than ever, and more
breweries are cropping up every day. But you can’t tell a pilsner from a
bock? An IPA from a witte? Confused by whiskey-like barrel aged beers
and crisp, fruity saisons? Are you thirsty, but not sure where to start?
Start Here. This book will take you through the main elements that make
beer what it is, from malt to hops to water, and introduce you to
fantastic brews around the country that highlight the diverse styles and
ingredients of the beer world. From where to find it to what glass to
put it in, you’ll learn everything you need to know (and then some!).
Time to get drinking, and remember–Beer is for Everyone!
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GoodReads Rating: 4.39/5
From the actor who lived
through the most improbable Hollywood success story, with an
award-winning narrative nonfiction writer, comes the inspiring,
fascinating and laugh-out-loud story of a mysteriously wealthy outsider
who sundered every road block in the Hollywood system to achieve success
on his own terms—the making of The Room, “the Citizen Kane of bad movies” (Entertainment Weekly).
In 2003, an independent film called The Room—written,
produced, directed, and starring a very rich social misfit of
indeterminate age and origin named Tommy Wiseau—made its disastrous
debut in Los Angeles. Described by one reviewer as “like getting stabbed
in the head,” the $6 million film earned a grand total of $1,800 at the
box office and closed after two weeks. Now in its tenth anniversary
year, The Room is an international phenomenon to rival The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Thousands of fans wait in line for hours to attend screenings complete
with costumes, audience rituals, merchandising, and thousands of plastic
spoons.
Readers need not have seen The Room to appreciate its costar
Greg Sestero’s account of how Tommy Wiseau defied every law of artistry,
business, and interpersonal relationships to achieve the dream only he
could love. While it does unravel mysteries for fans, The Disaster Artist
is more than just an hilarious story about cinematic hubris: It is
ultimately a surprisingly inspiring tour de force that reads like a
page-turning novel, an open-hearted portrait of a supremely enigmatic
man who will capture your heart.
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GoodReads Rating: 4.03/5
From stand-up comedian, actress, and breakout star of Girls Trip, Tiffany Haddish, comes The Last Black Unicorn,
a sidesplitting, hysterical, edgy, and unflinching collection of
(extremely) personal essays, as fearless as the author herself.
Growing up in one of the poorest neighborhoods of South Central Los
Angeles, Tiffany learned to survive by making people laugh. If she could
do that, then her classmates would let her copy their homework, the
other foster kids she lived with wouldn’t beat her up, and she might
even get a boyfriend. Or at least she could make enough money—as the
paid school mascot and in-demand Bar Mitzvah hype woman—to get her hair
and nails done, so then she might get a boyfriend.
None of that worked (and she’s still single), but it allowed Tiffany
to imagine a place for herself where she could do something she loved
for a living: comedy.
Tiffany can’t avoid being funny—it’s just who she is, whether she’s
plotting shocking, jaw-dropping revenge on an ex-boyfriend or learning
how to handle her newfound fame despite still having a broke person’s
mind-set. Finally poised to become a household name, she recounts with
heart and humor how she came from nothing and nowhere to achieve her
dreams by owning, sharing, and using her pain to heal others.
By turns hilarious, filthy, and brutally honest, The Last Black Unicorn
shows the world who Tiffany Haddish really is—humble, grateful,
down-to-earth, and funny as hell. And now, she’s ready to inspire others
through the power of laughter.
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GoodReads Rating: 3.88/5
A riotously funny, emotionally
raw novel about love, marriage, divorce, family, and the ties that
bind—whether we like it or not.
The death of Judd Foxman’s father marks the first time that the
entire Foxman family—including Judd’s mother, brothers, and sister—have
been together in years. Conspicuously absent: Judd’s wife, Jen, whose
fourteen-month affair with Judd’s radio-shock-jock boss has recently
become painfully public.
Simultaneously mourning the death of his father and the demise of his
marriage, Judd joins the rest of the Foxmans as they reluctantly submit
to their patriarch’s dying request: to spend the seven days following
the funeral together. In the same house. Like a family.
As the week quickly spins out of control, longstanding grudges
resurface, secrets are revealed, and old passions reawakened. For Judd,
it’s a weeklong attempt to make sense of the mess his life has become
while trying in vain not to get sucked into the regressive battles of
his madly dysfunctional family. All of which would be hard enough
without the bomb Jen dropped the day Judd’s father died: She’s pregnant.
This Is Where I Leave You is Jonathan Tropper’s most accomplished
work to date, a riotously funny, emotionally raw novel about love,
marriage, divorce, family, and the ties that bind—whether we like it or
not.
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Now a New York Times Bestseller
GoodReads Rating: 3.8/5
Read or download Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari eBook in ePUB or PDF Format for free. You can read this book on any Operating System, including iOS, Android and Windows.
A hilarious, thoughtful, and in-depth exploration of the pleasures and perils of modern romance from one of this generation’s sharpest comedic voices
At some point, every one of us embarks on a journey to find love. We meet people, date, get into and out of relationships, all with the hope of finding someone with whom we share a deep connection. This seems standard now, but it’s wildly different from what people did even just decades ago. Single people today have more romantic options than at any point in human history. With technology, our abilities to connect with and sort through these options are staggering. So why are so many people frustrated?
Some of our problems are unique to our time. “Why did this guy just text me an emoji of a pizza?” “Should I go out with this girl even though she listed Combos as one of her favorite snack foods? Combos?!” “My girlfriend just got a message from some dude named Nathan. Who’s Nathan? Did he just send her a photo of his penis? Should I check just to be sure?”
But the transformation of our romantic lives can’t be explained by technology alone. In a short period of time, the whole culture of finding love has changed dramatically. A few decades ago, people would find a decent person who lived in their neighborhood. Their families would meet and, after deciding neither party seemed like a murderer, they would get married and soon have a kid, all by the time they were twenty-four. Today, people marry later than ever and spend years of their lives on a quest to find the perfect person, a soul mate.
For years, Aziz Ansari has been aiming his comic insight at modern romance, but for Modern Romance, the book, he decided he needed to take things to another level. He teamed up with NYU sociologist Eric Klinenberg and designed a massive research project, including hundreds of interviews and focus groups conducted everywhere from Tokyo to Buenos Aires to Wichita. They analyzed behavioral data and surveys and created their own online research forum on Reddit, which drew thousands of messages. They enlisted the world’s leading social scientists, including Andrew Cherlin, Eli Finkel, Helen Fisher, Sheena Iyengar, Barry Schwartz, Sherry Turkle, and Robb Willer. The result is unlike any social science or humor book we’ve seen before.
In Modern Romance, Ansari combines his irreverent humor with cutting-edge social science to give us an unforgettable tour of our new romantic world.
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