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Yearbook ⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑

Regina Ross

REVIEW:

A choose your own adventure review of Seth Rogen’s 2021 humorous memoir, Yearbook!

Do you like Seth Rogen? If the answer is heck no, proceed to point 1. If the answer is heck yes, jump on down to point 2.

  1. You will hate this book. No need to read further.

  2. Congratulations! A hilarious reading experience awaits! Your guy Seth has written a collection of anecdotes that 100% succeeds in being what his fans would want it to be. Self-deprecating humor? Check. High on life and various other things stories? You know it. Refreshingly honest no f’s given tales about encounters with other celebrities like Tom Cruise and Nicolas Cage? You betcha.

    Now, are you adverse to audiobooks? Proceed to point A. If you love them, jump to point B.

    A. Check out some other reviews! I didn’t read the print copy of the book, but I bet there are some pretty great pictures in it.

    B. You win again! Yearbook is an audiobook experience unlike any other. There are sound effects aplenty, but even better, quotes are for the most part read by the actual people who said them! Dialogue is performed by Rogen’s family members, fellow comedians like Nick Kroll, Jason Segel, Dan Aykroyd, and Sacha Baron Cohen, and various other personalities including Snoop Dogg and Billy Idol. Oh what a treat this was. :)

PUBLISHER SYNOPSIS:

Hi! I’m Seth! I was asked to describe my book, Yearbook, for the inside flap (which is a gross phrase) and for websites and shit like that, so… here it goes!!!

Yearbook is a collection of true stories that I desperately hope are just funny at worst, and life-changingly amazing at best. (I understand that it's likely the former, which is a fancy "book" way of saying "the first one.")

I talk about my grandparents, doing stand-up comedy as a teenager, bar mitzvahs, and Jewish summer camp, and tell way more stories about doing drugs than my mother would like. I also talk about some of my adventures in Los Angeles, and surely say things about other famous people that will create a wildly awkward conversation for me at a party one day.

I hope you enjoy the book should you buy it, and if you don’t enjoy it, I’m sorry. If you ever see me on the street and explain the situation, I’ll do my best to make it up to you.