Age Group:

Adult

Genre:

Non-Fiction, Autobiography

Story:
Artie Lange, comedian and cast member of The Howard Stern Show, takes the reader on a tell-all journey through his childhood, adolesence and later years. Lange, a talented storyteller, describes his troubling addiction to drugs, his struggle with obesity and his fumbled exploits with women. Despite a rough exterior, Lange reveals the emotional, introspective side of himself in Too Fat to Fish.

My Thoughts:
A highly enjoyable, quick read from someone I’d never even heard of prior to picking up the book. Artie Lange’s brutally honest account of his life is both amusing, funny, insulting and poignant all at once. Despite all the alcoholism and drugs, Artie has a surprisingly astute recollection of childhood memories, from meeting Frankie Vallie as a toddler to getting arrested for a mistaken bank heist. I picked out this book a lot based on the quirky front cover, but it really surprised me in its attention to detail, and its deeper message of the fickle nature of addiction.

Borrow Too Fat too Fish from your local VPL library today!  

Looking for another revealing autobiography? Try Judith Moore’s Fat Girl: A True Story.

Have you read either of these books? What did you think?