True Stories from Painful Beaches
by John Hodgman
Recommended by Nick Offerman
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Although his career as a bestselling author and on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart was founded on fake news and invented facts, in 2016 that routine didn't seem as funny to John Hodgman anymore. Everyone is doing it now. Disarmed of falsehood, he was left only with the awful truth: John Hodgman is an older white male monster with bad facial hair, w...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Comedy, Humor, and Fiction.
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Nick Offerman
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“This man @hodgman has written a HOT book full of great laughs, moving selfefficacy, & fudge PURCHASE THIS MEDICINE”
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