One More Thing

From an actor, writer, and director of the hit TV comedy The Office US versiona story collection that was workshopped at comedy clubs and bookstores on both coasts.B.J Novak s One More Thing Stories and Other Stories is an endlessly entertaining, surprisingly sensitive, and startlingly original debut collection that signals the arrival of a welcome new voice in American fiction.Across a dazzling range of subjects, themes, tones, and narrative voices, Novak s assured prose and expansive imagination introduce readers to people, places, and premises that are hilarious, insightful, provocative, and moving often at the same time.In One More Thing, a boy wins a 100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes only to discover that claiming the winnings may unravel his family A woman sets out to seduce motivational speaker Tony Robbins turning for help to the famed motivator himself A school principal unveils a bold plan to permanently abolish arithmetic An acclaimed ambulance driver seeks the courage to follow his heart and throw it all away to be a singer songwriter Author John Grisham contemplates a monumental typo A new arrival in heaven, overwhelmed by infinite options, procrastinates over his long ago promise to visit his grandmother We meet a vengeance minded hare, obsessed with scoring a rematch against the tortoise who ruined his life and post college friends who debate how to stage an intervention in the era of Facebook We learn why wearing a red t shirt every day is the key to finding love how February got its name and why the stock market is sometimes just down.Finding inspiration in questions from the nature of perfection to the icing on carrot cake, from the deeply familiar to the intoxicatingly imaginative, One More Thing finds its heart in the most human of phenomena love, fear, family, ambition, and the inner stirring for the one elusive element that might make a person complete The stories in this collection are like nothing else, but they have one thing in common they share the playful humor, deep heart, inquisitive mind, and altogether electrifying spirit of a writer with a fierce devotion to the entertainment of the reader. Free Download [ One More Thing ] Author [ B.J. Novak ] – kino-fada.fr Nutty and Naughty I Love the Way This Guy s Mind Works.I m hesitant to give any specifics because B.J Novak relies on the element of surprise to carry these pieces The fun of reading the book is in being unaware of what new ways he will catch you off guard from one story to the next Many of these pieces are not stories, butlike scenarios I envy Novak s ability to say What if ____________ , and th...So many stories packed into one book Normally, I try to write a little blurb or two about each short story in a collection but I have to draw the line somewhere There s like 50 of them in here and I need to hold onto whatever sanity I have left Here are the most memorable ones The rematch Everyone knows the story of the tortoise and the hare, but not everyone knows about the aftermath. The hare was mocked relentlessly but swore that one day, there would be a rematchDark matter An e So many stories packed into one book Normally, I try to write a little blurb or two about each short story in a collection but I have to draw the line somewhere There s like 50 of them in here and I need to hold onto whatever sanity I have left Here are the most memorable ones The rematch Everyone knows the story of the tortoise and the hare, but not everyone knows about the aftermath. The hare was mocked relentlessly but swore that one day, there would be a rematchDark matter An extremely distracted Millennial goes to a planetarium on the weekend He discovers the truth behind Dark Matter but the explanation is so boring that he ends up tuning out.No one goes to heaven to see Dan Fogelberg Well, everyone is finally dead and it s time to visit Grandma in heavenonly Grandma doesn t have time for the family any Romance, chapter one Incredibly short yet infinitely amusing Here it is in fullThe cute one No, the other cute one Oh, she s cute tooJulie and t...The first piece of legitimate literature for the ADD generation A fine piece of trickery Novak makes us think it s a celebration of and homage to hedonism A quick, light, funny read that s soon to be forgotten.But it s not There s depth and substance here High brow, artsy, pretentious humor wrapped in the ephemeral humor of ADD.There s a poignancy and intelligence and, and, and weirdness in these stories that I haven t found anywhere...Oh, BJ I don t know what I was expecting with this collection, but this sure as hell wasn t it Just about everything about this book bothered me The stories were snarky, tongue in cheek, sardonic, sarcastic, biting Yup, I think that about sums it up.Every story was like a clever boy s oh, wouldn t this be witty oh, what if we did this pushed this platitude as far as it can go Really, the if I had a nickel for every time ...i love how random and unusual, weirdly funny his ideas are this collection fun to read Dark matter was my favorite, i think some of the stories had really deep meaning and hidden messages, and the rest were just random and silly Do you think Johnny Depp should have driven his motorcycle off the mountain highway to his death Why or why not If you love something, let it go.If you don t love something, definitely let it go.Basically, just drop everything, who cares why do u always post pic i love how random and unusual, weirdly funny his ideas are this collection fun to read Dark matter was my favorite, i think some of the stories had really deep meaning and hidden messages, and the rest were just random and silly Do you think Johnny Depp should have driven his motorcycle off the mountain highway to his death Why or why not If you love something, let it go.If you don t love something, definitely let it go.Basically, just drop everything,...If I could give this book zero stars I would Obviously I m missing what a lot of other people are getting with this Somebody, please tell me what s funny here I get that he sees himself as aelevated intellectual humorist, and while a few if his ideas do have potential for hilarious insight, he never got past the idea, for me At a certain point I was saying to myself, Come on, there are so many funny places to go with this But he didn t And I didn t laugh once, out loud or otherw If I could give this book zero stars I would Obviously I m missing what a lot of other people are getting with this Somebody, please tell me what s funny here I get that he sees himself as aelevated intellectual humorist, and while a few if his ideas do have potential for hilarious insight, he n...3.5I had like 20 pages of this left and decided to just finish it because I know restore me is about to take over my life lol.I went into this thinking it would be a memoir, but it s actually a collection of short satirical witty clever short stories A lot of them interconnected, surprisingly I enjoyed the majority of them, but there were some longer ones that just seemed to go on too long I tried listening to this on audio, but the jokes were lost on me when I tried it that way, so I wouldn 3.5I had like 20 pages of this left and decided to just finish it because I know restore me is about to take over my life lol.I went into this thinking it would be a memoir, but it s actually a collection of short satirical witty clever short stories A lot of them interconnected, surprisingly I enjoy...The Walk to School on the Day After Labor DayI was sad that summer was over But I was happy that it was over for my enemies, too Take a minute and examine your reaction to that quote, one of the shortest pieces I can t in good conscience call it a story in BJ Novak s collection of short stories I imagin...I was attracted to this First Reads giveaway because of my longstanding interest in English language humor I ve edited five humor anthologies and several humor collections and humorous novels, and once wrote a volume of literary parodies I take humor seriously.What Novak does best is to find the sadness in humor Too many younger writers think that humor is just about laughs No, that s jokes In fact, the great American humor tradition...One More Thing about this bookI ll cut right to the chase One More Thing simply isn t very good The weird thing is that it s not because B.J Novak is what some people may think inherently a bad writer It s his apparent love for vignettes that scream laugh at me when there s nothing funny in there No one would hold it against you if you only laughed out loud less than a dozen times while reading Novak s debut That isn t to say that it is wholly unlikable because there are stories tha One More Thing about this bookI ll cut right to the chase One More Thing simply isn t very good The weird thing is that it s not because B.J Novak is what some people may think inherently a bad writer It s his apparent love for vignettes that scream laugh at me when there s nothing funny in there No one would hold it against you if you only laughed out lou...

• English
• 05 January 2017
B.J. Novak
• Hardcover
• 288 pages
• 0385351836
• B.J. Novak
• One More Thing