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One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories (original 2014; udgave 2014)

af B.J. Novak

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Fiction. Literature. Short Stories. Humor (Fiction.) HTML:New York Times Bestseller

A startlingly original debut from the actor, writer, director, and executive producer hailed as ??a gifted observer of the human condition and a very funny writer capable of winning that rare thing: unselfconscious, insuppressible laughter? (The Washington Post).
A boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes??only to discover that claiming the winnings might unravel his family. A woman sets out to seduce motivational speaker Tony Robbins??turning for help to the famed motivator himself. A new arrival in Heaven, overwhelmed with options, procrastinates over a long-ago promise to visit his grandmother. We meet Sophia, the first artificially intelligent being capable of love, who falls for a man who might not be ready for it himself; a vengeance-minded hare, obsessed with scoring a rematch against the tortoise who ruined his life; and post-college friends who try to figure out how to host an intervention in the era of Facebook.  Along the way, 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, One More Thing has at its heart the most human of phenomena: love, fear, hope, ambition, and the inner stirring for the one elusive element just that might make a person complete. Across a dazzling range of subjects, themes, tones, and narrative voices, the many pieces in this collection are like nothing else, but they have one thing in common: they share the playful humor, deep heart, sharp eye, inquisitive mind, and altogether electrifying spirit of a writer with a fierce devotion to the entertainment of
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Medlem:makarios74
Titel:One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories
Forfattere:B.J. Novak
Info:Knopf (2014), Edition: First Edition, Hardcover, 288 pages
Samlinger:Dit bibliotek
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One More Thing af B. J. Novak (2014)

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Clever, witty, hilarious. I loved it. ( )
  feralcreature | Oct 31, 2023 |
Fun Quick Read That Gets You Thinking!

The stories are fun to read and even the shortest, most nonsense ones really gets your mind thinking. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and learning how insanely smart and witty B.J Novak is! ( )
  aubriebythepage | Jul 7, 2023 |
Quite funny! I expected that but am still pleased. What's surprising are the pieces that are more thoughtful and literary, which I wasn't fully expecting. Well, listen, I only knew it was a book by a funny person so I was prepared for vaguely-entertaining memoir as much as anything else. ( )
  Kiramke | Jun 27, 2023 |
I have mixed feelings about this collection. There were some stories I really liked—the ones that showcased the author's fondness for the absurd and for wordplay. Equal in number to the stories I liked were the ones I didn't care for, stories with an undercurrent of futility and a bleak view of humanity.

The guy's clever and he's a good writer. I can appreciate his talent. I don't always like how he uses it in this collection.

The fun thing about listening to this on audio is that there are lots of familiar voices (if you're a fan of The Office) helping out with the reading—Mindy Kaling, Jenna Fischer, and Rainn Wilson, to name a few. B.J. Novak does most of the reading. ( )
  Harks | Dec 17, 2022 |
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  brutalstirfry | May 6, 2022 |
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How entertaining is B.J. Novak? With One More Thing, the standup comic, scriptwriter and actor (best known for his work on The Office), takes his talents to the page in 64 fresh, short, offbeat and often hilarious stories, many of which involve updating classics for satirical effect — whether with a rematch between the tortoise and the hare, or by replacing detective Encyclopedia Brown from children's literature with Wikipedia Brown, who is hopelessly distracted by tangential subjects. In the book's longer, more fully developed tales, Novak shows us what he's capable of — inventive ideas, guffaw-inducing humor and some real heart. The margins of my review copy are so festooned with exclamation points — indicating points of surprise and delight — they look like some sort of vertical Morse code.
tilføjet af capiam1234 | RedigerNPR Books, Heller Mcalpin (Feb 11, 2014)
 
It is Mr. Novak’s gift for channeling the way we talk and think today that propels many of the funnier tales here.
 

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In the aftermath of an athletic humiliation on an unprecedented scale -- a loss to a tortoise in a footrace so staggering that, his tormenters teased, it would not only live on in the record books, but would transcend sport itself, and be taught to children around the world in textbooks and bedtime stories for centuries; that hundreds of years from now, children who had never heard of a "tortoise" would learn that it was basically a fancy type of turtle from hearing about this very race -- the hare retreated, understandably, into a substantial period of depression and self-doubt.
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When we can say anything, what do we say?  When we can feel anything, what do we feel?  When we can share anything, what do we share? (pg. 93)
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Fiction. Literature. Short Stories. Humor (Fiction.) HTML:New York Times Bestseller

A startlingly original debut from the actor, writer, director, and executive producer hailed as ??a gifted observer of the human condition and a very funny writer capable of winning that rare thing: unselfconscious, insuppressible laughter? (The Washington Post).
A boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes??only to discover that claiming the winnings might unravel his family. A woman sets out to seduce motivational speaker Tony Robbins??turning for help to the famed motivator himself. A new arrival in Heaven, overwhelmed with options, procrastinates over a long-ago promise to visit his grandmother. We meet Sophia, the first artificially intelligent being capable of love, who falls for a man who might not be ready for it himself; a vengeance-minded hare, obsessed with scoring a rematch against the tortoise who ruined his life; and post-college friends who try to figure out how to host an intervention in the era of Facebook.  Along the way, 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, One More Thing has at its heart the most human of phenomena: love, fear, hope, ambition, and the inner stirring for the one elusive element just that might make a person complete. Across a dazzling range of subjects, themes, tones, and narrative voices, the many pieces in this collection are like nothing else, but they have one thing in common: they share the playful humor, deep heart, sharp eye, inquisitive mind, and altogether electrifying spirit of a writer with a fierce devotion to the entertainment of

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