• Humblebrag

  • The Art of False Modesty
  • By: Harris Wittels
  • Narrated by: Harris Wittels
  • Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
  • 3.9 out of 5 stars (296 ratings)

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Humblebrag

By: Harris Wittels
Narrated by: Harris Wittels
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Publisher's summary

From comedian and writer (Parks and Recreation, Eastbound & Down) Harris Wittels comes a hysterical breakdown of boasts, brags, and self-adulation disguised as humble comments and complaints - based on his popular @humblebrag Twitter feed.

Something immediately annoyed Harris Wittels about Twitter. All of a sudden it was acceptable to brag, so long as those brags were ever-so-thinly disguised as transparent humility, such as:

"Just filed my taxes. Biggie was right, mo money mo problems."

"I hate when I go into a store to get something to eat and the male staff are too busy hitting on me to get my order right :( so annoying!"

Taking action by naming this phenomenon and creating the Twitter account called Humblebrag - dedicated solely to retweeting the humblebrags of others - Wittels's new word took the Internet by storm. Harris also shows readers what humblebrags might look like from some of history's most notable names, as well as devoting an entire chapter to a man who just might be the greatest humblebraggart of them all...

©2012 Harris Wittels (P)2012 Hachette

Critic reviews

"I haven't read this, and never intend to, but Harris is my friend, so I feel obligated to give him a 'blurb' for his book. He's a funny writer...I'm sure it's not that bad." (Aziz Ansari, comedian, NBC's Parks and Recreation)
"Great, Harris. This is a really good use of your time." (Mindy Kaling, comedian and NYT bestselling author of Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?)
"Harris Wittels is a hilarious performer and writer and with this book he has coined a new term for that thing that drives us crazy. But honestly, I don't know how I feel about this whole thing. It makes me nervous." (Amy Poehler)

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Not my cup of tea.

Interesting concept and insight into Twitter posts. I enjoyed it at first, but author comes off like a complete jerk after a while. Four hours of the same thing... over and over... and over.

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Cathartic to hear your sassy voice. We miss you.

What made the experience of listening to Humblebrag the most enjoyable?

Hearing Harris' voice again. It's hard to accept he's gone, it was too sudden and without goodbyes. But hearing him talk, sass, and joke for 4 hours is so incredibly cathartic.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Humblebrag?

Harris' sass and humor immortalized in 4 hours worth of shit talking twitter users for their shameless tweets.

What about Harris Wittels’s performance did you like?

His dry delivery of insults is sassy-humor perfection.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes

Any additional comments?

Thank you for these 4 hours of memories and emotions, Harris. It's both cathartic and hilarious. You'd appreciate how crazy you make me look when listening in public, Harris. People see me going from full-tilt laughter from the tweet-insults to quivering-lipped and quietly crying when realizing your gone, and your genius and your friendship is gone forever. :(

We love and miss you, Harris.

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Not Really a Book - More of a List - A LONG list

Here is the summary of this book.

The author reads a tweet that can be classified as a "humblebrag"
The author replies with an equally short snarky comment mocking the humblebragger.

That is it. Over four hours of this - the same joke over and over and over. We get it.

Seriously. Listen to the sample and you will have experienced the entire book. There is no more.

How was this published? (Why did I buy it!?)

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This was hilarious!

This book was a nonstop laugh session. I look forward to volume 2! I would recommend this for an honest look at the art of humblebragging.

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Criticize published tweets...repeat

I have to agree with the last reviewer. For someone who has such contempt for the tweets of others, he certainly spent hours and hours reading them. He even put them into groups but even these were distinctions without differences. I think I was expecting some insight resulting from the amount of time spent reading and copying these things. But all this book does is copy the tweet, point to the obvious, copy the next tweet point to the obvious for page after page.

I understand that this is a matter of not managing my own expectations. I was hoping for insight. As polished as the author/narrator is, I think even he was becoming bored by the end.

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The best purchase I have made on Audible!

I loved this book. It is hysterical. I actually laughed out loud every ten minutes or so. It is also an interesting study in human behavior and you can't help but think about some of the things you say or post on social media sites. The author is very insightful and his sense of humor is entertaining. I did not stop listening until it ended. I will listen to this again when I need a good laugh. I am going to be sharing this with friends. I have a new favorite audible book. Don't miss out on this one!

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Total waste of my credits

Interesting premise but I should have known you’d only need 5 min TOPS to flesh out the idea to satisfaction. I didn’t know what I was hoping for but I definitely didn’t get it from this book. I kept waiting for it to take off or hook me.... but nope.

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Long live Harris Wittels!

Finished this in 1 day while doing data entry at work & had to fight back the laughs so I didnt look crazy to my co workers. Harris' humor was so unique. Listen to Harris' Foam Corner on the old Comedy Bang Bang podcasts if you havent!

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I find this hard to even call a book

If you enjoy listening to your friends troll twitter then this is the book for you. This is pure crap. Anyone could write a book like this with little effort. He reads tweets and proceeds to shit on whom ever based on their humble brag. It's repetitive and therefore redundant. I want more than my money, I want my time back.

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This is Not Really a Book

I love Audible and I love Harris Wittles's work on both Parks and Rec as well as East Bound and Down so I was excited for this book but when I listened to the first 20 minutes I was really disappointed to find that it was not really even a book at all. It was basically just a bound version of his Humblebrag Twitter feed read by him in a disinterested monotone without any additional content. I couldn't listen to it for more than 5 minutes at a time. After 20 total minutes I gave up completely.

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