Play Book Tag discussion

If you see how I shelved this book, don't go looking for a movie of the book because I put "movie is better than the book" -- I'm referring to his comedy videos. I own one that is as long as a movie, but most of what I've seen has been on Youtube. This is why his average book ratings are significantly lower than his performance ratings. This is especially true of the lyrics to his songs. I am not keen on reading most song lyrics on the printed page. If I were, I'd read a lot more poetry books, but perhaps not. For me songs need both the words and the melody, unless, of course, it's Leonard Cohen and then often not so true, depending on if you like most of his songs and not just Hallelujah which didn't even do well until another singer performed it.

I first heard of Tim Hawkins back in my early days as a homeschooling mother back around the time Youtube was just getting started (okay, actually it might have been before then because I started homeschooling in 2003 and the video was smaller than what it is now on Youtube) when I saw a link for his first Homeschooling Family song to the tune of The Adams Family. It may or may not speak to everyone, but to anyone homeschooling back at that time it made fun of the homeschool stereotypes that were circulating at that time.

Fast forward a number of years and I found him on Youtube, bought that video and sometimes go watch him because he is, if nothing else, a brilliant comedian.

Back to the book. He wrote (with another author, which he was open about) that many of the things in this book are things he has performed, so only some of this was brand new to me. Personally, I like his performances much better (almost always 5 stars for me.) That said, there are some real gems in here that I laughed at even in writing (things newer to me, but not all).