Too Fat to Fish by Artie Lange, Anthony Bozza Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Too Fat to Fish
Book Review: Great seller
Summary: 5 Stars
I received my purchase on time and it was as it was described on the website.Book Review: Hilarious!
Summary: 4 Stars
This book is really funny. At times you feel sorry for Artie, but can't help laughing at his stories and the situations he gets himself into.Book Review: I rather go fishing.......
Summary: 1 Stars
A friend of mine who's a big Stern fan recommended that I read Artie Lange's book. I can't stand Stern, but I like reading biographies, and I thought this Artie person (who I've never heard of before) might be a cut above as a comedian. Boy was I mistaking.
The book is simply one of the dullest biographies I have ever read. Even Maureen McCormick's (aka Marcia Brady) train wreck biography had more humor than this "Fishing" garbage.
Half the book contains passages of Artie's childhood, which was so boring and provincial and uneventful, that I skipped over most of it.
The book gets a little bit more interesting when Artie starts to achieve some professional television gigs and reminisces about his MadTV days, where he self-identifies himself as a cocaine snorting swine. (Bingo!! Give the man a prize.)
Other than that, the book is just dull, and I don't think I even finished it. I just lost interest in the whole sordid tale.
Book Review: Love & Miss Artie!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
As a long time Stern listener (20+ years) when Artie joined the show - it was like listening it to the first time again! Love his story telling, impressions, the guy just seemed unstoppable!! A little about me, mid 40's, business professional, woman, no addictions, no therapies, just average run of the mill yuppie I guess. I bought the book the day it was available, but finally got around to read it...
Yes, I laughed out loud - and reading it so late, some of the stories weren't as new as I had heard through radio show fodder.. No worries - no spoiler alert here - but it was very difficult to read (emotion) due to where Artie is today. Knowing the demons he wrote about - were/are obviously still there just broke my heart. If you're an Artie fan, and I mean, a fan who cares, not someone who would share coke or buy him Jack all night - then you'll feel the same way... You want Artie back.
I hope he has another book - overcoming those demons - and continue to tell the stories he does so well.
Book Review: Not your usual Bio.
Summary: 5 Stars
Ive never been a big fan of autobiography's by actors. They are always the same story (and so is this one) but I dont know, this is one great book. Ive been an Artie fan ever since I saw him on MadTV season 1. At the age of 12, I started listening to Howard Stern. I became an instant fan. The book goes through Artie's life between 1993-1998 when he really hit rock bottom with cocaine. It then skipped over to when he joined the Stern Show. Its a great book and its probably one of the only auto biographies that Ive actually enjoyed (besides George Carlin's book "On Words"). Its a great book which really surprised me. Check out the audio book as well, even though Artie only narrated the first hour of it.