Hyperbole and a Half

Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

Allie Brosh | 4.44 | 176,256 ratings and reviews

Recommended by Bill Gates, and 1 others. See all reviews

Ranked #2 in Animated, Ranked #6 in Humor — see more rankings.

This is a book I wrote. Because I wrote it, I had to figure out what to put on the back cover to explain what it is. I tried to write a long, third-person summary that would imply how great the book is and also sound vaguely authoritative--like maybe someone who isn’t me wrote it--but I soon discovered that I’m not sneaky enough to pull it off convincingly. So I decided to just make a list of things that are in the book:

Pictures
Words
Stories about things that happened to me
Stories about things that happened to other people because of me
Eight billion... more

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Bill Gates CEO/MicrosoftWhile she self-deprecatingly depicts herself in words and art as an odd outsider, we can all relate to her struggles. Rather than laughing at her, you laugh with her. It is no hyperbole to say I love her approach -- looking, listening, and describing with the observational skills of a scientist, the creativity of an artist, and the wit of a comedian. (Source)

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Hyperbole and a Half is ranked in the following categories:

#9 in 2013
#53 in Adulting
#22 in Anxiety
#43 in Autobiography
#15 in Cartoons
#9 in Comedic
#10 in Comedy
#59 in Comic
#10 in Depression
#41 in Dog
#76 in Essays
#35 in Fun
#7 in Funny
#38 in Happy
#8 in Illustrated
#15 in Illustration
#59 in Internet
#39 in Light
#35 in Memoir
#27 in Mental Health
#36 in NPR
#95 in Real Life
#51 in Resilience
#29 in Scribd

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