Play Book Tag discussion

This is a traditional set of short stories all by one author, BJ Novak, who is a writer from the American TV show The Office if you don't recognize the name. I listened to the audiobook, which he narrates, and he does a good job.

A few of the stories are standout 5 star stories for me. There's a story about the person who "invented" time and the calendar. It was clever and laugh out loud funny to me. I loved it. Most of the stories are in the 3-4 star range. Some are super short and more like jokes, others are longer.

Overall pretty good and worth the read. Would be great to read a couple stories here and there to break up heavier books or if you just want a laugh one night. Most of the stories are clever in addition to just being a book of jokes.

Do you think that the audiobook made it better than it would have been had you read it in print?

Not as much as other books I've listened to by comedians. I don't think he did any "voices" or anything that would be better in the audio.

I was really disappointed in this. I love BJ Novak- in The Office, Mindy Project, I like the concept of his app even. I felt the whole book was trying to hard like "Look at me- I'm clever and funny!". I read it a while back, I think I liked a couple of the stories, but I can't remember even one of them now. To each their own. Maybe I just didn't get it.

I think some were definitely flops and maybe I let the really funny ones sway my rating too much but I really, really liked the calendar one.