Nick Offerman

I tried to listen to this audiobook on a free platform a year or two ago, and it was so slow at regular speed that it started to put me to sleep. Not a great choice while driving.

I prefer to listen to celebrity memoir/autobiography, especially when the voice is an iconic one like Nick’s, so I gave this a try again—this time using a platform with adjustable playback speed. 1.5x = perfect. Now I was able to enjoy it, laugh, ponder, and appreciate it in all its glory.

I can’t say I learned much from this book, but I was quite entertained, and my awe for Nick Offerman has increased. He’s just such an interesting human, and in many ways he *is* Ron Swanson.… (mehr)

Listened to this on audio, read by Offerman himself. First, I'd listen to him narrate the phone book, he's excellent. Second, I loved this book, but from reading some of the reviews afterword, I might be in the minority, but this book so worked for me. In the first section he tells the tale of his trip to Glacier National Park with Jeff Tweedy (Wilco) and George Saunders. The second part is the experiences he and his wife, Megan Mullaly have with a new RV as they travel across the country to visit their families during the pandemic. Sure he's part of the "liberal elite", he recognizes his privilege in his stories and he wear's his politics on his sleeve. But his love of nature and his pull no punches, folksy style was very engaging for me. Recommend… (mehr)