by Aseem Gupta | Apr 11, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Kevin Hart’s I Can’t Make This Up: Life Lessons looks, at first glance, like the familiar story of an entertainer who rises from a difficult childhood to extraordinary success. Hart certainly tells that story, but the book becomes more interesting when read closely...
by Aseem Gupta | Apr 8, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
George Carlin’s Napalm & Silly Putty is easy to misdescribe because it looks like a collection of jokes but behaves like a record of a mind refusing to leave anything unquestioned. Cars, airline announcements, refrigerators, dogs, supermarket etiquette, religion,...
by Aseem Gupta | Apr 5, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
George Carlin’s When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? does not behave like a conventional nonfiction book. It has no sustained thesis that advances neatly from chapter to chapter, no program to follow, and no narrative whose momentum depends on what happens next....
by Aseem Gupta | Apr 1, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
George Carlin spent much of his career making ordinary language sound newly ridiculous. A familiar expression, a polite social ritual, a bureaucratic euphemism, a football metaphor, a restaurant convention, or a supposedly serious institution could become comic...
