This Is a Book

by Demetri Martin

Book Overview

From the renowned comedian, creator, star and executive producer/multiple title-holder of Comedy Central's Important Things with Demetri Martin comes a bold, original, and rectangular kind of humor book. Demetri's first literary foray features longer-form essays and conceptual pieces (such as Protagonists' Hospital , a melodrama about the clinic doctors who treat only the flesh wounds and minor head scratches of Hollywood action heroes), as well as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446539708
• ISBN13: 9780446539708
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A lot of variety, a lot of funny

Each chapter is different. Some are collections of themed one-liners (Statistics: "The average person will eat more than 25 pounds of meat if offered enough money to do it," "If you stretched the average person's intestines out from end to end, it would make him scream a lot"). Some are dialogues. Some are series of diary entries. Some are stories built around a phrase ("I was green with envy ... She was hazel with eyes and pink with lipstick. And she had nice skin, which was tan with tan") or tell the same story from different perspectives (a woman who was stung by a bee, the bee, a squirrel who saw it happen). There are about 45 drawings grouped into sections of ~15 each. Because of the variety of forms, it feels quite different from Martin's standup or TV show, but it all has his sense of humor.