The Jerusalem Syndrome: My Life as a Reluctant Messiah

by Marc Maron

Book Overview

By the author of Attempting Normal and host of the podcast WTF with Marc Maron, The Jerusalem Syndrome is The Gospel according to Maron: a spiritual memoir of your average hyperintelligent,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0767908104
• ISBN13: 9780767908108
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.4" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

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I can't stop thinking about this book. I could not put it down. I had tears rolling down my face as I read it. Marc=Good=Sony=Love.

Insightful, frank, intelligent, worthwhile

Read this book. I read it in a day. I went back and underlined the good parts. I told a number of friends about it. You don't have to know anything about Judaism or Israel to appreciate Maron's spiritual journey. It's the funniest thing I've ever purchased online.

Great book

Having been a fan, I had a great time reading this. Strongly recommended.

Funny and sweet

In this fluid memoir Marc Maron manages to be self-aggrandizing and self-effacing at once, to good effect. He's got an eye and an ear for detail, and can comment wryly on marriage (for example) without ever being misogynistic. He writes that he was his Grandma Goldy's first and favorite grandchild - and that this designation and honor is sticking for life. You will laugh a lot, and admire Maron's ability to sometimes make lemonade out of lemons. In addition, Maron is more than willing to tell us about the silly, sad, and ridiculous jams he has gotten into - and how he found his way out. Maron is not only smart; he is kind and compassionate without ever being maudlin. This memoir, by an American comic with a deservedly bright future, is funny and sweet and well worth reading.

marc maron in print form!

if you're not sure who marc maron is--- imagine if hunter s. thompson and janeane garofalo had a test-tube-jewish-new-yorker-baby-boy... and that baby boy was full grown... and a little weird.okay, so i'm a little biased- i'm a huge fan of his work and i saw marc maron's jerusalem syndrome at the westbeth theater last summer--- it was spectacular. i'm glad i saw the show, because it made the book a lot more animated for me. but i do believe that if anyone enjoys the wrenching and honest comedy of marc maron, they will love this book. a streamlined mentality that any decent human being with a sense of humor will soak up. are you a decent human being with a sense of humor??? huh? are ya? just visualize the coca-cola dripping down the front of his shirt in the company's atlanta headquarters and you'll understand.