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Attempting Normal
- Narrated by: Marc Maron
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
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Publisher's Summary
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
People make a mess.
Marc Maron was a parent-scarred, angst-filled, drug-dabbling, love-starved comedian who dreamed of a simple life: a wife, a home, a sitcom to call his own. But instead he woke up one day to find himself fired from his radio job, surrounded by feral cats, and emotionally and financially annihilated by a divorce from a woman he thought he loved. He tried to heal his broken heart through whatever means he could find—minor-league hoarding, Viagra addiction, accidental racial profiling, cat fancying, flying airplanes with his mind—but nothing seemed to work. It was only when he was stripped down to nothing that he found his way back.
Attempting Normal is Marc Maron’s journey through the wilderness of his own mind, a collection of explosively, painfully, addictively funny stories that add up to a moving tale of hope and hopelessness, of failing, flailing, and finding a way. From standup to television to his outrageously popular podcast, WTF with Marc Maron, Marc has always been a genuine original, a disarmingly honest, intensely smart, brutally open comic who finds wisdom in the strangest places. This is his story of the winding, potholed road from madness and obsession and failure to something like normal, the thrillingly comic journey of a sympathetic f***up who’s trying really hard to do better without making a bigger mess. Most of us will relate.
Praise for Attempting Normal
“I laughed so hard reading this book.”—David Sedaris
“Funny . . . surprisingly deep . . . laced with revelatory insights.”—Los Angeles Times
“Superb . . . A reason that [it] is a superior example of an overcrowded genre—the comedian memoir—is Mr. Maron’s hardheaded approach to his history, the wisdom of experience.”—The New York Times
“Marc Maron is a legend because he is both a great comic and a brilliant mind. Attempting Normal is a deep, hilarious megashot of feeling and truth as only this man can administer.”—Sam Lipsyte
Praise for Marc Maron and WTF
“The stuff of comedy legend.”—Rolling Stone
“Marc Maron is a startlingly honest, compelling, and hilarious comedian-poet. Truly one of the greatest of all time.”—Louis C.K.
“I’ve known Marc for years and I can tell you first hand that he’s passionate, fearless, honest, self-absorbed, neurotic, and screamingly funny.”—David Cross
“Revered among his peers . . . raw and unflinchingly honest.”—Entertainment Weekly
“Devastatingly funny.”—Los Angeles Times
“For a comedy nerd, this show is nirvana.”—Judd Apatow
Critic Reviews
“Funny . . . surprisingly deep . . . laced with revelatory insights.” (Los Angeles Times)
“Superb . . . A reason that [it] is a superior example of an overcrowded genre—the comedian memoir—is Mr. Maron’s hardheaded approach to his history, the wisdom of experience.” (The New York Times)
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- Amazon Customer
- 18-05-2020
funny and honest as hell!
A great listen! Marc is a funny, fucked up dude. His performance in reading the book is engaging and entertaining. Glad I found it :)
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- The beard that could
- 16-10-2023
This book was written for me
Ok not intentionally but listening to this book as an up and coming comedian myself I feel as if Marc Marion is actually me from the future who wrote this book to tell myself where my story continues if I can only be so lucky.
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- Adam Takesce Doong
- 01-08-2021
It’s worth a listen
Well, he certainly normalises masturbation. I didn’t know anything about Marc Maron before listening to this, other than he was a guy who had a podcast a friend recommended. Now I feel I know him well. A little too well, perhaps. Recommended for people who are already fans and want to know more about Marc. If I had a dollar for every time he says “shtreet” instead of “street” I would be a very rich man. That could be a drinking game for university students listening to Marc Maron’s narration.
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