Book description
From the comedian, actor, and former host of The Late Late Show comes an irreverent, lyrical memoir in essays featuring his signature wit.
Craig Ferguson has defied the odds his entire life. He has failed when he should have succeeded and succeeded when he should have failed. The fact that…
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1 author picked Riding the Elephant as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Okay, so this one is a bit of a cheat because I was already a huge fan of Craig Ferguson. It took me a while to get to this memoir, which is written more as a series of essays that jump around in terms of subject and what part of Ferguson's life he's unpacking. One of the things I respect and adore about Ferguson is his honesty about a range of subjects--sobriety, failed marriages, anxiety, his approach to being a creative--and all of that is explored with the sort of depth, candor and humor that I love when Ferguson is…
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