FROM THE AUTHOR:
This is a book I wrote. Because I wrote it, I had to figure out what to put on the back cover to explain what it is. 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. So I decided to just make a list of things that are in the book:
Pictures
Words
Stories about things that happened to me
Stories about things that happened to other people because of me
Eight billion dollars*
Stories about dogs
The secret to eternal happiness*
*These are lies. Perhaps I have underestimated my sneakiness!
Four words: This book is hilarious.
Hyperbole and a Half focuses on mostly funny topics and some heavy ones, but it always makes it absolutely laughable. It contains a collection of short stories on events that have happened in the author's life. With clever, ridiculous illustrations, Allie Brosh talks about every topic under the sun, from her weird 5-year-old self to the strangest dogs in the world. (Pigeon will finish this review...uh, sometime "soon").