This is a very funny book that is often about failure. It is a well writen book written by a celebrity about his careeer where the jokes are often at his expense. It is refreshing. It's a page turner, an honest read, one which made me laugh, where I would lower the book and read parts out loud to whoever I knew who was within ear range. I found it an inspirational book. Charles Grodin became a very successful person, but if you looked at isolated events in this story, it's somewhat hard to imagine that ever happening. But it did, he persevered, and I think it's so wonderful that he was willing to write about the bumps along the way, which often were not glamorous obstacles, just your run of the mill pratfalls, one of those cosmic banana peels that he not only choose not to forget but to immortalize on the page. This book is an exercise in humiliy, a collection of yarns, a great book hiding out underneath a self-deprecating title. It's well worth your time.
