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Start Without Me
Start Without Me: (I'll Be There in a Minute) | Gary Janetti
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Gary Janetti is bothered. By a lot of things. And thank God he’s here to tell us. In Start Without Me, bestselling author Gary Janetti returns with his acid tongue firmly placed in cheek to the moments and times that defined him. From his coming of age in 1970’s Queens, to his stumbling toward adulthood, and love, in 90’s New York, and the digital world of today where you can happily live behind your phone. For Gary “most everything was wonderful. It was only tiny, little things,” that stuck like a sharp pebble in a shoe. This laugh out loud collection of true-life stores from the man, “behind his generation’s greatest comedy” (The New York Times) is for anyone who has ever felt like they don’t quite fit in. For all of us that have thought, just maybe, those small slights that life flings at us, over and over, are worth remembering. A book for any of us that have felt the joy in holding a decade long grudge. Which is to really say, Start Without Me is for all of us. Deeply poignant, savagely funny, and slyly tender, Start Without Me will have readers wishing it would never end.
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Cathyloves2read
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I may have missed the point of this book. I thought it was going to be funny. Although the stories were cute, I didn‘t find most of them funny. Each chapter tells a different story about an event that happened in this man‘s life. There was no rhyme or reason to the order on which these stories appeared. They weren‘t in order by date. They were just pretty random. I won this book on Goodreads, and thank them for that.

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JoyBlue
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This second memoir from American TV writer, producer, and actor Gary Janetti is a quick, fun read. Read my full review here: https://debbybrauer.org/#start-without-me-ill-be-there-in-a-m...

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TheReadingRaccoon
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I found this book funny, touching and strangely relatable. Humor is what he‘s built his career on but I actually teared up when he writes about never thinking he‘d be able to legally marry and losing a beloved neighbor and friend of the family.
Check this one out if you enjoy hilarious (but often sweet) musings about life, love and pop culture.

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TheHeartlandBookFairy
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If you need to lighten up a little bit, are looking for laugh out loud funny, look no further…. this is the book you want! Read it right now!! Or better yet, listen to it... Read by Gary Janetti himself, delivered in a way that only he can.A collection of hysterically funny true life stories from his youngest years to his fifties. Things that have shaped his life and clearly, have bothered him. From spending his single digit(cont in comments)

TheHeartlandBookFairy years hiding in the basement during summer break to coveting the sun in the quest of the best tan as he gets older. From having no friends (and mostly being OK with that) To having the closest thing to a best friend in a 30 year old nun at summer camp. From planning on how to get married, do it once, get her pregnant on the 1st try, and have her killed off the day after the baby is born in a tragic accident, Which would effectively allow him to live life as a parent with a child and hide his gayness forever to falling in love with and marrying Brad later in life, living openly as a gay married couple and realizing that he doesn't really want children. His relationship with his sister, his parents, travel, college college and career. The commencement address was one of my favorite parts of the book, I went back and listened to it a second time! Filled with nostalgia, his take on movies, foods, malls, and more, especially for those of us who grew up in the 70s and 80s, was spot on and lol funny! Everything is funny but underneath all of that, there is there is wisdom born from a lifetime of vulnerability. This was my 1st Janetti book but it will not be my last, I can't wait to listen to more! 2y
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