Book Review: One More Thing

Title: One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories
Author: B.J. Novak
Pages: 276

One More Thing is a collection of short stories. This is not an autobiography and a lot of the stories don't pertain to real life events yet alone the author's history. Is it comedy? I'm not sure. In some of the stories I could see the irony of the situation and it made me smile, but overall I did not find this book funny. It appears that I don't have a very developed sense of humor after reading reviews of how much others enjoyed this book. I like sarcasm and witty, yet obvious humor but this book was filled with more subtle jokes.

There were some short stories in this collection that I really enjoyed such as 'Julie and the Warlord' and 'Sophia'. I got a real kick out of 'New Hitler'. Most of them just puzzled me. It's possible I would have enjoyed an audio version of this much more than the text. Sometimes in comedy it is all about timing and delivery. This book just didn't work for me.  Back to straightforward chicklit and fantasy reading for me!