Based on a True Story: A Memoir (Hardcover) by Norm MacDonald

from GirlWellRead

A special thank you to NetGalley and Random House for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.Being Canadian, and growing up watching SNL, I thought requesting this book was a no brainer, but it was simply a rambling monologue that ends up being one long joke. There were nuggets of real stories t...

from lesindy

This "memoir" is a series of convoluted memories from Norm MacDonald. It is mostly fiction, and hard to follow or understand. The jokes fall flat, and I only chuckled once. Norm is a broken down has-been, and is looking to score big at casinos. Unfortunately, he only has 200 dollars to his name. ...

from velopunk

I like Norm MacDonald but I didn't like his autobiography. I really wanted to know about his life in small town Ontario and his SNL tenure. He went off in too many absurd flights of fancy to make much sense of his life.

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Well, leave it to Norm Macdonald to have written the most unusual celeb memoir I have ever read. He does however give you fair warning that not everything in the book is true. Instead it's this weird mix of truth, things that are ridiculously false, and stuff that makes you wonder, is he pulling ...

from quaintlittlehead

I once lived in a small town where friends of mine had regular tickets to the local symphony. One of them loved to complain about how the guest conductors always seemed to turn and talk to the audience between songs as if we were all just hicks, something they would never do in a big city. Her co...