Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches Audiobook (Free)

“I love everything about this hilarious publication except the font size.” -Jon Stewart

Although his career like a bestselling author and on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart was founded on fake news and invented facts, in 2016 that regular didn’t seem as funny to John Hodgman anymore. Many people are doing it now.

Disarmed of falsehood, he was remaining only with the terrible truth: John Hodgman is an old white male monster with bad facial hair, wandering such as a privileged Sasquatch through about Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Seashores three wildernesses: the hills of Traditional western Massachusetts where he spent much of his youth; the painful seashores of Maine that want to eliminate him (and some day time will); and the metaphoric haunted forest of middle age group that connects them.

Vacationland collects these real life wanderings, and through them you learn of the horror of freshwater clams, the evolutionary purpose of the mustache, and which animals to maintain as dogs and which to eliminate with traps and poison. There is also some advice on how to react when the people of coastal Maine try to sacrifice you to their unusual god.

Though wildly, Hodgmaniacally funny as normal, it is also a poignant and sincere account of one individual facing his forties, those years when guys specifically must stop pretending to be the kids of shiny potential they were and settle into the declining bodies of the wiser, strange dads that they are.