TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hodgman,John
TI  - Vacationland: true stories from painful beaches 
SN  - 9780735224803
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - New York, New York
PB  - Viking
KW  - Hodgman, John.
KW  - Authors, American
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Humorists
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Humor
N1  - The bookkeeper for the Church of Satan -- Dump jail -- Mongering -- 309.28 -- Rocks on top of other rocks -- Pills are science -- Daddy Pitchfork -- Nerve food -- Graveyard fun -- Maine humor -- A kingdom property -- The IT guy for Duck Dynasty -- So thin is the skin of my people -- You are normal people -- Vacationland -- A little beyond the safe limits of travel -- Yippee
N2  - "John Hodgman--New York Times bestselling author, semi-famous personality, deranged millionaire, increasingly elderly husband, father, and human of earth--has written a memoir about his cursed travels through two wildernesses: from the woods of his home of Massachusetts, birthplace of rage, to his exile on the coast of Maine, so-called 'Vacationland,' home to the most painful beaches on earth. Vacationland is also about John's wandering in the metaphoric wilderness of his forties, those years when dudes especially must painfully stop pretending to be the children of bright potential they were and settle into the failing bodies of the wiser, weirder dads that they are. Other subjects covered include the horror of freshwater clams, the evolutionary purpose of the mustache, which animals to keep as pets and which to kill with traps and poison, and advice on how to react when the people of coastal Maine try to sacrifice you to their strange god"--
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