jjares reviewed on 8/25/2019 + 3497 more book reviews

Although I didn't really care for George Carlin's life story, I must admit that he had a wonderful command of the English language. Carlin flexes his literary muscle and makes his story sing. I admired that part of the book; he was able to convey the difficulties of growing up in his family without trying to elicit pity, for himself or his situation. I had hoped this was some of Carlin's humor, and though it is there, it wasn't what I was expecting.

Carlin was working on this memoir before his death and his good friend, Tony Hendra, and (George's daughter) Kelly completed the work. George Carlin shines through, so they did an excellent job of telling his story without interjecting their own voice. One of the unique things I found about George Carlin was his social conscience. He felt it was his role to show (Americans particularly) what we are doing is stupid or wrong or whatever. He just happened to use humor as his method of teaching.

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