Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
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From the creator of the beloved and universally acclaimed television series BoJack Horseman, a fabulously off-beat collection of short stories about love - the best and worst thing in the universe
Written with all the scathing dark humor that is a hallmark of BoJack Horseman, Raphael Bob-Waksberg’s stories will make you laugh, weep, and shiver in uncomfortably delicious recognition. In “A Most Blessed and Auspicious Occasion”, a young couple engaged to be married is forced to deal with interfering relatives dictating the appropriate number of ritual goat sacrifices for their wedding. “Missed Connection - m4w” is the tragicomic tale of a pair of lonely commuters eternally failing to make that longed-for contact. And in “More of the You That You Already Are”, a struggling employee at a theme park of dead presidents finds that love can’t be genetically modified.
Equally at home with the surreal and the painfully relatable (and both at once), Bob-Waksberg delivers a killer combination of humor, romance, whimsy, cultural commentary, and crushing emotional vulnerability.
Audiobook Table of Contents:
- "Salted Circus Cashews, Swear to God" read by Raphael Bob-Waksberg
- "short stories" read by Baron Vaughn, James Urbaniak, Kimiko Glenn, Colman Domingo, and Natalie Morales
- "Most Blessed and Auspicious Occasion" read by Raúl Esparza
- "Missed Connection - m4w" read by Colman Domingo
- "The Serial Monogamist’s Guide to Important New York City Landmarks" read by Natalie Morales
- "We Men of Science" read by James Urbaniak
- "Lies We Told Each Other (a partial list)" read by Kimiko Glenn and Raúl Esparza
- "These Are Facts" read by Will Brill
- "Lunch with the Person Who Dumped You" read by Stephanie Beatriz
- "Rufus." read by Baron Vaughn
- "Rules for Taboo" read by Will Brill and Emma Galvin
- "Up-and-Comers" read by Stephanie Beatriz
- "Move across the country." read by Colman Domingo
- "You Want to Know What Plays Are Like?" read by Emma Galvin
- "the poem" read by Nicholas Gonzalez
- "The Average of All Possible Things" read by Kimiko Glenn
- "More of the You That You Already Are" read by Nicholas Gonzalez
- "We will be close on Friday 18 July" read by Raphael Bob-Waksberg
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Critic reviews
One of NPR's Favorite Books of 2019
One of the A.V. Club's Favorite Books of 2019
“Raphael is the funniest male vegan who created an animated show about a talking horse working today. Run, don’t walk, to your local socialist knitting circle and tell them about this hilarious book.” (Rachel Bloom, creator of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
"This is exactly the kind of book you’d hope the creator of BoJack Horseman would write. Just as his animated show is a bleary-eyed tour de force composed of equal parts depression and fun, Bob-Waksberg’s debut story collection is wonderfully weird, pushing familiar stories to their absurdist limits (e.g., the couple who wants to keep their wedding simple with absolutely no goat-sacrificing). Yet each one has a chewy emotional center and a gut punch worth waiting for." (Maris Kreizman, Vulture, “12 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This Summer”)
“Bob-Waksberg manages to balance his ironic humor with a deep sincerity that continues to surprise and delight... [These stories] do that mysterious thing that good art can do: make your heart clench with feeling, your eyes fill with tears, your lips twitch toward a smile or all three at once.” (Ilana Masad, The Washington Post)
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- Matt
- 08-05-23
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You won’t regret this. Some super emotional stories. Some stories that hit close to home. Provides a laugh, a fresh perspective, a soothing voice for your own experiences. I loved this book with all my heart. Will never forget the stories in it.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Anonymous User
- 31-05-23
I kinda did regret this.
I was brought to this one by my favourite gaming youtuber Jacob Geller, but this one didn't really hit home like some of the other things I've found from his channel.
First story set up expectations, it seemed clever and different, made me think about traditions and customs existing in the real world. Unfortunately there wasn't anything there beyond clever made up traditions.
And it didn't get a lot better. There were some gems among, best story is "we the men of science". It's the only one actually clever and original. All the others were more or less disappointing. They build up excitement that leads to nowhere. Worst ones leave you with the cringy feeling of someone pretending to be lot smarter than they are. Absolute rock bottom was the story (or something?) that was just single unrelated sentences read by different people. Dude if you wanna write a haiku, go on, but that's not an audiobook. I felt a physical cringe listening to that, almost as bad as listening "I wanna F my stepbro" story. Dude seriously?
First negative review I leave here, before I have given full stars or ignored it. But this feels so disappointing after the hype that seeing it in my library annoys me.
We the men of science gets this to 3, without that piece this would be a solid 2/5.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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Performance3 out of 5 stars
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Story1 out of 5 stars
- Agatha
- 21-03-24
Narration
Tried something new but this isn’t my type of style I prefer to read/listen to. Complicating storylines to keep track of.
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