Oh, the Things I Know!: A Guide to Success, Or, Failing That, Happiness, Library Edition

by Al Franken

Product Description Al Franken, or Dr. Al Franken as he prefers to be called, has written the first truly indispensable book of the new millennium. Filled with wisdom, observations, and practical tips you can put to work right away, Oh, the Things I Know! is a cradle-to-grave guide to living, an easy-to-follow user's manual for human existence. What does a megasuccess like Al Franken - best selling author, Emmy-award winning television star, and honorary Ph.D. - have to say to ordinary people like you? Well, as Dr. Al himself says, “There's no point in getting advice from hopeless failures.” Join Mr. Franken - sorry, Dr. Franken - on a journey that will take you from your first job (“Oh, Are You Going to Hate Your First Job!”), through the perils and pitfalls of your twenties and thirties (“Oh, the Person of Your Dreams vs. the Person You Can Actually Attract!”), into the joys of marriage and parenthood (“Oh, Just Looking at Your Spouse Will Make Your Skin Crawl!”), all the way to the golden years of senior citizenship (“Oh, the Nursing Home You'll Wind Up In!”). Don't travel life's lonesome highway by yourself. Take Al Franken along, if not as an infallible guide, then at least as a friend who will make you laugh. For adult listeners. From the Back Cover A Grammy nominee. The bestselling author and Emmy-winning television star guides graduates across the uncertain seas of post-academic life. Inspired, inspiring, and laugh-out-loud funny. He's taken on political satire and skewered self-help. Now Al Franken turns the world of earnest, inspirational self-help books on its head. More advanced than Robert Fulghum, more fit than Maria Shriver's husband, Oh, the Things I Know! is Franken's commencement address for the 21st century. A cradle-to-grave guide for living, it takes young grads from their first job (Oh, Are You Going to Hate Your First Job!) through their twenties and thirties (Oh, the person of Your Dreams vs. the Person You Can Actually Attract!), into marriage and parenthood (Oh, Just Looking at Your Spouse Will Make Your Skin Crawl!), and all the way up to senior citizenship (Oh, the Nursing Home You'll Wind Up In!). What does a mega success like Al Franken have to say to ordinary people? There's no point in getting advice from hopeless failures. Filled with wit, wisdom, observations, and practical tips, this is an easy-to-follow user's manual for human existence. Why travel life's highway all by your lonesome when you can bring Al Franken along? About the Author Two-time spoken word Grammy ® award winner AL FRANKEN is the author of four previous bestsellers. A long-time comedy writer who rose to prominence as one of the original Saturday Night Live writers in the 1970s, Franken won five Emmy® Awards for his work on SNL.