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Mack The Life: The Autobiography (2012)

by Lee Mack(Favorite Author)

3.68 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0593069420 (ISBN13: 9780593069424)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Transworld Publishers

review 1: This is my third comedian autobiography so I don’t know if that makes me experienced in the world of reviewing for this genre but what I have learnt from the variety of autobiographies is that everybody’s different.I bet you’re thinking duh! Well, I expect common conventions that are in the autobiography but except that it follows their life and once they were a crap comedian and now they are not.Yes, Lee Mack’s autobiography does this but in the strangest way possible I suppose this is one of the books where it is further away from their real life. What do I mean? Well Lee Mack mentions his children about three times (I didn’t count) and mentioned his wife a couple more times. Whereas, other autobiographies I have read (Michael McIntyre’s Life and Laughing is ... morewhat I am thinking of), it wasn’t about his home life. If you read this book you will find out that he hates all the celeb stuff and so doesn’t agree with sharing this. So you won’t see him on the front cover of OK his life. But he doesn’t lie which yes happens in some autobiographies; yes I am thinking of Michael McIntyre again. Anyway, this autobiography is unique in its structure with the psychiatrist office at the end of each chapter analysing his life- so funny! He subtly ties in gags throughout: before reading this book I would have thought it happened by magic, I have now learnt it doesn’t. I first came to think of Lee Mack as a result of ‘Not Going Out’ which is one of my favourite box sets ever! I wouldn’t recommend this to people who were looking for other comedy except gags.If you love gags then this book is definitely for you.
review 2: If you like Lee's sense of humour you will enjoy his book. It charts his entry into the comedy circuit and his TV career to date. There's not much about his personal life but as long as a book can hold my interest and ( in this case) make me laugh then that's fine by me. The first part of the book had me laughing and reading bits out to my husband, I really enjoyed reading about Lee's holiday camp days. In between each chapter are the bits where he is talking to a psychiatrist and although they had some little amusing bits in them, they didn't really bring much to the book and instead got quite annoying. Towards the end Lee came over as a bit full of himself which seems a shame because throughout the rest of it he seems really likeable. Overall a good insight into the world of comedy and a most enjoyable book. less

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