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Paddle Your Own Canoe

One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living

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Paddle Your Own Canoe

Written by: Nick Offerman
Narrated by: Nick Offerman
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 Parks and Recreation actor Nick Offerman shares his humorous fulminations on life, manliness, meat, and much more in his first book.

Growing a perfect moustache, grilling red meat, wooing a woman—who better to deliver this tutelage than the always charming, always manly Nick Offerman, best known as Parks and Recreation’s Ron Swanson? Combining his trademark comic voice and very real expertise in woodworking—he runs his own woodshop—Paddle Your Own Canoe features tales from Offerman’s childhood in small-town Minooka, Illinois—“I grew up literally in the middle of a cornfield”—to his theater days in Chicago, beginnings as a carpenter/actor and the hilarious and magnificent seduction of his now-wife Megan Mullally. It also offers hard-bitten battle strategies in the arenas of manliness, love, style, religion, woodworking, and outdoor recreation, among many other savory entrees.

A mix of amusing anecdotes, opinionated lessons and rants, sprinkled with offbeat gaiety, Paddle Your Own Canoe will not only tickle readers pink but may also rouse them to put down their smart phones, study a few sycamore leaves, and maybe even hand craft (and paddle) their own canoes. Entertainment & Celebrity Gender Issues Men's Studies Social Sciences
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The title of the book gives the impression that the author is going to give you life advice. I was looking forward to that, since I found his interviews interesting. But this is the content of the book: 10% advice, 90% biography. After a point I don't want to know about your life in that much detail, especially about stuff that I, as a non-US reader, cannot relate to.

It's a pity because I really wanted to enjoy this. I loved his character in Parks and Recreation, and I found his relationship with his wife endearing as well.

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