QotD: Best Book of '07

What's the best book you read this year?

 

Yeah....like I can pick one....

 

I may love this book because it's the last one I read....but it was different from the run of the mill fourteen dollar paperbacks.  It may not have come out this year but this is when I read it so oh well.

I've always loved the movie (hellooooo John Cusaaaack....) but the book is so funny and honest.  I love an honest piece of literature.  If you want insight into the illogical thinkings of men when it comes to love and relationships, this must be read.  It opened my eyes to how the other sex views love, sex, breakups, and everything in between. 

I wish every guy came with a book like this...a sort of manual of how his brain works.  We women needs this kind of enlightenment in order to function alongside men without strangling them out of frustration.

 

 

If you know me, you know how deep my obsession for Saturday Night Live and good comedy/comedy writing/stand-up runs.  I think I've had a crush on Steve Martin and his banjo pickin', prop usin', ridiculous stand-up routine delivering self since I was six years old.  When I saw this book in Barnes and Noble (bless you, B and N) I almost passed out.  I was dying to read it.  Then John Sweeney got it for me for Christmas and I proceeded to attack him with hugs and thank yous for a record ten minutes. 

It's no secret that Steve Martin is a wonderful, witty writer.  He's written comedy acts, screenplays, novels, etc but he's never written about himself before.  This isn't so much a general autobiography as it is insight into his comic genius, which is right up my alley. It takes you from his days as an amateur magician at Disney World to his hit stand-up career to why he walked away from it all.  It's smart, funny, wonderful, and brilliant. 

Nothing is more compelling to me than a breakdown of someone's rise to greatness.  It gives me hope that maybe hard work and ambitions CAN result in dreams coming true.

 

There are, of course, other notable books that are out there: Water for Elephants, The Kite Runner, and all the books I read by Chuck Palahniuk.  But these two books meant the most to ME and that's what reading is about, right? Right-oh.