President Me: The America That's In My Head (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
So disappointing. To sum it up, I'm not a fan of the rant. It was meant to be a humorous rant on the problems with our country and how Adam Carolla would make it all better if he were president. Unfortunately, I just wasn't laughing most of the time. I may have laughed twice but that's not enough when there isn't much else to the book. I can't say that I agree with many of his positions either so that didn't help matters. (I actually enjoy reading different viewpoints but this wasn't the right format for that.) If the book was funny, I wouldn't have been bothered by his surprisingly ultra conservative views.What probably made it worse was that I expected to like this book because I enjoyed "Not Taco Bell Material". I stuck it out with this one only because I didn't have anything else to listen to. The fact that I read Adam Carolla's book "Not Taco Bell Material" became quite the source of merriment in my circle of literary friends. "I'm reading Hemingway right now...I know he's no Adam Carolla but..." So I decided to read this book purely to spite the snobs, because, hey, I enjoyed that book, and I enjoyed this one. It made me laugh pretty hard on more than one occasion, but then I got to the section where he ripped on vegetarians. And well, Adam Carolla hurt my feelings. Maybe vegetarians in California are a little different from those of us in central Illinois. I'm certainly not used to being catered to, and I am still amazed and grateful when someone is kind enough to take my diet into account. What Carolla did in that section was take an already marginalized and minority group, and proceeded to mock, ridicule, and marginalize further. That's not funny, that's just mean, and I thought we were cool, man. I stood up for you.
What do You think about President Me: The America That's In My Head (2014)?
Very funny and at the same time. Makes a lot of sense. Adam for Prez!
—Stevevvv
If you listen to the podcast, you've heard most of it before!
—kennedy
Very good but fewer laugh until I cry moments.
—yuingk
