Book #110: One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories by B. J. Novak

I was in need of an audiobook to fill some time in between Armand Gamache books (the library doesn't have an audiobook copy of the fifth book, so I just have to get around to reading the e-book copy I currently have checked out), and this one was available, and it was pretty short. I kind of thought this was going to be a memoir-ish type book, because that's basically what you always get from actors, but this was actually a collection of short (some, very very short) stories that Novak wrote. It was actually a very fun book to listen to on audio, because he is a great reader and he had plenty of other famous friends sub in and help do the other voices in his stories, including lots of favorites from The Office, like Jenna Fischer, Mindy Kaling, and Rainn Wilson. I thought some of the stories were very funny and well done, like the blind date between the woman and the African warlord, the rematch between the tortoise and the hare (the opening story, which was funny and thoughtful), and the one about the sex robot who became sentient and fell in love with the person who bought her. But some were really dumb and too short. There were over sixty stories, and many of them were one page or less, which makes you wonder why the editors didn't make him cut at least a few of those and expand some of the other stories. I feel like the less-than-one-page stories are more just funny than actually bringing anything to the table, and having like 30 of them in the book just took down the quality of the whole book, I thought. But overall, it was a funny read/listen, and a few of them even made me think too.