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pumpkinsoup1162's review against another edition
3.0
Huh? What is this book? Weirdest thing I’ve read in a looong time. Super creative. But what is happening?
The beginning is entertaining but devolves (ascends?) at the end to an ultimate existential crisis.
If any of my friends read this book please comment to tell me what you think! Is it profound? Is it insane? Does it replace Brave New World? So many questions!
The beginning is entertaining but devolves (ascends?) at the end to an ultimate existential crisis.
If any of my friends read this book please comment to tell me what you think! Is it profound? Is it insane? Does it replace Brave New World? So many questions!
judeandolin's review against another edition
I was actually intrigued by this because I really like Jim Carrey, especially his drama roles like Eternal Sunshine or Truman Show, but just reading an excerpt of this was enough to bring to mind some of the inane rambling messes I used to have to edit for work. Completely bizarre madman shit lol. I'm sure someone will dig it or find something "profound" in it though.
zachnachazel's review against another edition
1.0
I didn’t understand this book. I honestly think I just was not able to get into the mind of Carrey. Which makes sense. I hope he’s doing well.
angus_mckeogh's review against another edition
3.0
Started out kind of campy and self-deprecatory almost funny. There were a bunch of written in cameos which were entertaining, but then it ultimately devolved into something nutty and confusing.
jackieblair's review against another edition
3.0
I was really really into this one about 75% of the time but I got a little disinterested in the last few hours of the audiobook. For sure a weird one.
books_n_cats_1973's review against another edition
5.0
I really enjoyed this book. I am happy that Carrey gave some attention to his philosophical views pertaining to his enlightenment concerning his involvement with Eckhart Tolle.
moreyceyer's review against another edition
Funny and well written, just wasn’t in the mood for that
themahtin's review against another edition
3.0
It's easy to get drawn into Jim Carrey's story, but at the end you will wonder how much of it came from his head, and how much came from the co-author's. I found the book hard to put down. The book seems to be an attempt to either rewrite or obfuscate history. If I were him, I would have waited to finish the book until after portraying Joe Biden on Saturday Night Live.
Stories of "controversial" things that happened in Carrey's life are retold with completely different details. I'm referring in particular to the story of his (estranged?) lover who died of an overdose. His entire relationship with the character in the book is different, and the character in the book does not die. I did enjoy the depictions of "Jim's" friends and fellow actors, who seem to all go to the same meditation retreats of whatever, but by the time they meet their end, well...
The last few chapters reminded me a bit of the movie "Sorry to Bother You," in that a story that seemed to be about one thing (an actor's life) is suddenly about something totally impossible and obviously fictional - him watching the destruction of the planet and Carrey's death as, he presumes, the only person left after his friends had all either fought to the death, or embraced the light. The aliens are taking over the planet during historic wildfires - a fire has just taken Carrey's home and, nearly his life...
Once in a while, I'd find a quote that seemed to give some insight into what Carrey was going through at different times in his life. It's important to process the fires and I guess that he's talking about the fire destroying his home, and about him being rescued when he was almost dead, but he invents a collective of women who are amputees who rescue him, and how the aliens attack the planet at a time that happens to be when they're still trying to get away from the fires... Jim's alone at the end of his life... I'm left wanting to interview him and ask questions about some of the things from his life that I'd want to hear him talk about (vaccines, his seeming politicization, his mental health, was he really cast as Mao in a movie that never got made?, was he manic during that period...
Lots of questions and it's hard to trust the answers.
Stories of "controversial" things that happened in Carrey's life are retold with completely different details. I'm referring in particular to the story of his (estranged?) lover who died of an overdose. His entire relationship with the character in the book is different, and the character in the book does not die. I did enjoy the depictions of "Jim's" friends and fellow actors, who seem to all go to the same meditation retreats of whatever, but by the time they meet their end, well...
The last few chapters reminded me a bit of the movie "Sorry to Bother You," in that a story that seemed to be about one thing (an actor's life) is suddenly about something totally impossible and obviously fictional - him watching the destruction of the planet and Carrey's death as, he presumes, the only person left after his friends had all either fought to the death, or embraced the light. The aliens are taking over the planet during historic wildfires - a fire has just taken Carrey's home and, nearly his life...
Once in a while, I'd find a quote that seemed to give some insight into what Carrey was going through at different times in his life. It's important to process the fires and I guess that he's talking about the fire destroying his home, and about him being rescued when he was almost dead, but he invents a collective of women who are amputees who rescue him, and how the aliens attack the planet at a time that happens to be when they're still trying to get away from the fires... Jim's alone at the end of his life... I'm left wanting to interview him and ask questions about some of the things from his life that I'd want to hear him talk about (vaccines, his seeming politicization, his mental health, was he really cast as Mao in a movie that never got made?, was he manic during that period...
Lots of questions and it's hard to trust the answers.