I took this with me to Florida and read it entirely on the plane/in the airport. It's a good type of book for that; there's no narrative thread to lose, so it's easy to stop and start again in a way that travel makes necessary.
Apart from the ease of reading, I wouldn't really recommend it, though. It' amusing enough in places, but it's also fairly crude and not as funny as I thought it would be. It felt like he couldn't make up his mind whether he was writing a memoir or his next set at the Comedy Castle. It's also somewhat disjointed, and not just in the "this is a book full of bits and random funny thoughts" way that humor books often are, but in a "I'm just putting words on a page with no idea where the next sentence will lead" way that makes it hard to ever really settle in. Even for a book you read in fits and starts during travel, you need some definite pit stops: moments where it's clear the author is saying, "Okay, that was fun, and now something different." Such moments in this book are not nearly frequent or apparent enough.
Overall, I prefer his more family-friendly fare, and after reading this, as an actor rather than as a writer. I'm not sorry I read it but I doubt I'll read it, or anything else by him, again.
Author: Tim Allen
Potentially objectionable content: Language, crude humor, etc.
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