Artie Lange (for those of us who don’t know) is known as a stand-up comedian, a comedian on MadTV, but also as one of Howard Stern’s sidekicks. He has battled severe alcohol and drug abuse for most of his adult life. The book is what you would expect from a memoir: • His humble upbringing • His simple and loyal parents• Artie’s poor life choices (and really dumb moves)• His quest to get high throughout his career rise His language is frank and crass, but funny crass. Enjoyable read, and one hell of an endearing character. I was on the fence about giving this book 2 or 3 stars. So really this is more like a 2.5 star review which is surprising. An audio book by a funny person read by that funny person would normally be an easy 3 stars from me. I'm a fan of Artie's too so it's kind of disappointing. If you're not a fan, it's unlikely that this book is for you.Here's what I liked: - Artie is funny and I did laugh out loud at times. - He seemed like he was being truthful and wasn't holding back. - He wasn't defensive. - He even apologized to people who were impacted by his screw ups. - I was touched by his story of his father dying. - He attempted to read his own book.Here's why it lost some stars: - I expected it to be funnier than it was. - I was bored by the abundance of sports stories. - At times it was so obvious that it wasn't Artie's writing. - He kept referring to women as "broads". - It was distracting having his friends take over the reading of his story when he couldn't do it anymore because when I heard Gary's voice I would sometimes forget that it was Artie's story and not Gary's. Overall all though, in most cases the readers so bad that it was almost good.So if you're a man and an Artie fan then this is worth the read. Otherwise, it's likely to disappoint.
What do You think about Too Fat To Fish (2008)?
Very stuff from a funny guy, but you can hear tragedy in his prose
—sara
I like autobiographies and Arties is a good one
—cheerrock96
