Every time Allie Brosh posts something new on her hugely popular blog Hyperbole and a Half the internet rejoices.
Touching, absurd, and darkly comic, Allie Brosh’s highly anticipated book Hyperbole and a Half showcases her unique voice, leaping wit, and her ability to capture complex emotions with deceptively simple illustrations.
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.
Brosh’s debut marks the launch of a major new American humorist who will surely make even the biggest scrooge or snob laugh. We dare you not to.
FROM THE AUTHOR:
This is …
Every time Allie Brosh posts something new on her hugely popular blog Hyperbole and a Half the internet rejoices.
Touching, absurd, and darkly comic, Allie Brosh’s highly anticipated book Hyperbole and a Half showcases her unique voice, leaping wit, and her ability to capture complex emotions with deceptively simple illustrations.
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.
Brosh’s debut marks the launch of a major new American humorist who will surely make even the biggest scrooge or snob laugh. We dare you not to.
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!
I have a special affinity towards people/books/shows/films which make me laugh at the horrible human experience, while at the same time, allowing me to introspect and be amazed at how clear and precise their understanding of the self has been. It's the reason I adore watching a horse whine about how selfish and pathetic he is in Bojack Horseman, or to see Rick treat those he love in a shitty way in a misguided attempt at feeling less alone in Rick and Morty.
In short, I love self-deprecating humor and this book had a lot of it. A lot!
Favorite chapters: Depression and Identity - parts 1 and 2.
A great book read at just the right time. A bit painfully hyperbolic at times but it induced me to be more critical of the way I treat myself. Brosh' brutal honesty is a breath of fresh air.
All personal meaning aside I do feel like this book is very solid piece of work. The art is extremely rudimentary to say the least, but it's extremely expressive of the mood Brosh is channeling through every inch of this book. It's that every day ugliness that I mentioned in my review of Snowden taken to a whole new level. We are stupid, silly and pretentious creatures when everything comes down to it and Brosh manages to express a lot of universality (at least for the anxious and depressed among us) even while talking about some very specific things that have happened in her life. So despite the fact that this book …
A great book read at just the right time. A bit painfully hyperbolic at times but it induced me to be more critical of the way I treat myself. Brosh' brutal honesty is a breath of fresh air.
All personal meaning aside I do feel like this book is very solid piece of work. The art is extremely rudimentary to say the least, but it's extremely expressive of the mood Brosh is channeling through every inch of this book. It's that every day ugliness that I mentioned in my review of Snowden taken to a whole new level. We are stupid, silly and pretentious creatures when everything comes down to it and Brosh manages to express a lot of universality (at least for the anxious and depressed among us) even while talking about some very specific things that have happened in her life. So despite the fact that this book drew inspiration from a lot of negativity in Brosh' life, I couldn't help but feel a bit more optimistic about life by the end.
