Paddle Your Own Canoe
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Nick Offerman
Parks and Recreation actor and Making It co-host Nick Offerman shares his humorous fulminations on life, manliness, meat, and much more in this New York Times bestseller.Growing a perfect moustache, grilling red meat, wooing a woman—who better to deliver this tutelage than the always charming, always manly Nick Offerman, best known as Parks and Recreation’s Ron Swanson? Combining his trademark comic voice and very real expertise in woodworking—he runs his own woodshop—Paddle Your Own Canoe features tales from Offerman’s childhood in small-town Minooka, Illinois—“I grew up literally in the middle of a cornfield”—to his theater days in Chicago, beginnings as a carpenter/actor and the hilarious and magnificent seduction of his now-wife Megan Mullally. It also offers hard-bitten battle strategies in the arenas of manliness, love, style, religion, woodworking, and outdoor recreation, among many other savory entrees.A mix of amusing anecdotes, opinionated lessons and rants, sprinkled with offbeat gaiety, Paddle Your Own Canoe will not only tickle readers pink but may also rouse them to put down their smart phones, study a few sycamore leaves, and maybe even hand craft (and paddle) their own canoes.
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Author
Nick Offerman
Pages
352
Publisher
Penguin
Published Date
2014-09-02
ISBN
0451467094 9780451467096
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"Cool book! I have a signed first edition. I'm just starting on this very addictive bookshelfing hobby of mine. "
Mark Guidry
"Liked it. Good book, well written, get a great insight into offerman's personality. Fun humor, a bit of well placed obscenities and neat flash-backs: a kind of tell-all. I think the only real reason it didn't captivate me totally, was because he's really not Ron Swanson."
Dana Reinert
"Loved the illustrations- they are probably the funniest thing. There are some parts in the middle that remind me of a wedding toast (thanking random friends) but the part towards the end is more interesting when he talks about acting"
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Leah Burns
"Nick Offerman seemed to write a book simply because he could and all his peers were doing it too. It was a delightful read, though not laugh-out-loud like Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari or Yes Please by Amy Poehler. If you like Nick though, or plan to see him live, then go ahead and binge that ****. He’s a really sweet guy, and he’s really into himself. He shares a religious and rural upbringing that he talks a lot about too. In that way especially, his perspective is interesting and comforting. In my opinion, reading autobiographies by celebrities or influences is always grounding and reassuring."
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