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Memoirs and Misinformation
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Jeff Daniels
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
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New York Times best seller
"None of this is real and all of it is true." (Jim Carrey)
Meet Jim Carrey. Sure, he's an insanely successful and beloved movie star drowning in wealth and privilege — but he's also lonely. Maybe past his prime. Maybe even...getting fat? He's tried diets, gurus, and cuddling with his military-grade Israeli guard dogs, but nothing seems to lift the cloud of emptiness and ennui. Even the sage advice of his best friend, actor, and dinosaur skull collector Nicolas Cage isn't enough to pull Carrey out of his slump.
But then Jim meets Georgie: ruthless ingénue, love of his life. And with the help of auteur screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, he has a role to play in a boundary-pushing new picture that may help him uncover a whole new side to himself — finally, his Oscar vehicle! Things are looking up!
But the universe has other plans.
Memoirs and Misinformation is a fearless semi-autobiographical novel, a deconstruction of persona. In it, Jim Carrey and Dana Vachon have fashioned a story about acting, Hollywood, agents, celebrity, privilege, friendship, romance, addiction to relevance, fear of personal erasure, our "one big soul", Canada, and a cataclysmic ending of the world — apocalypses within and without.
Critic Reviews
“A mad fever dream... Carrey and his collaborator Vachon pull out all the stops as their protagonist Jim Carrey careens from midlife blues through love and career complications toward the apocalypse...gems of comic fantasy and the nuggets of memoir gold.” (Kirkus)
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- Question Everything
- 07-17-20
WHAT?!?
I like Jim Carrey. I think he's funny, creative, entertaining, and humorously animated. Lately, I've been seeing that he's had an epiphany that awakened him to a new way of seeing life and the universe. I had questions regarding what happened to give him that "ah ha" moment. When I heard he wrote a memoir, I preordered it, figuring it would give me answers. Nope! Nada! Not even close!
The book starts out very dark and psychotic, describing Carrey as an emotional mess with 2 highly-trained rottweilers who came at a price tag of $100,000 each that he uses for protection and companionship. It then talks about a movie role Carrey gets convinced to mentally and physically prepare for where he'd play Mau Tse Tung (deceased former Chairman of China's People's Republic). During that preparation process, he marries an actress who sees Carrey as her financial ticket in life. She encourages him to take on a sex partner who visited during a wild party on Carrey's estate. This concubine ends up leaving the estate on a stretcher after overdosing on drugs. Carrey gets a reality check and is convinced by handlers to drop the Mau preparation, stop having extramarital sex and take an acting part in Hungry, Hungry Hippos where he electronically meets an animated version of his deceased friend Rodney Dangerfield. As I'm reading about Carrey sliding deeper and deeper into psychosis and hedonism, I'm figuring at any moment one of these experiences is going to be the catalyst to turn his life around. Then the book takes a strange twist where sleeping Carrey wakes up to find his estate is on fire because of the California brush fires and just when he's about to die in the fire, he's rescued by Eco-Terrorists who are taking advantage of his fried security system and burnt watchdogs to kidnap him so they can get funding for their cause. They don't succeed because while taking Carrey to the safehouse aliens attack California and Sean Penn, Nicholas Cage, Gweneth Paltrow, and Kelsey Grammer join in to fight them. After a few chapters of the alien attack, the actors are dead and Jim is left floating in a half-inflated dingy borrowed from John Travolta. And that's where the book ends! My reaction was WHAT?!?
I'm seriously disappointed.
On the plus side though, Jeff Daniels does a stellar performance in reading it, and the actual writing is creatively picturesque. But as for answering my questions about his metamorphosis. It didn't.
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- billjv
- 07-08-20
Revealing at times, at times holding back
Full disclosure - I am a big Jim Carrey fan - and because of that I went in thinking I would really enjoy the book, just because I am very interested in how Jim has navigated his career and life. I knew some of his views on life and success through some of the interviews and YouTube clips he has done. I kind of expected a wild ride in some ways (it IS Jim Carrey, after all) but what I didn't really expect is such introspection on the Hollywood machine and it's relation to capitalism, and how that also plays out in our world today in various ways. Without spoiling the fun, there's a lot there for those that wish to see.
Jeff Daniel's voice does a great job, although I would have loved it if Jim himself had read the audiobook. There were a couple of times where I felt the story dragged a bit, but overall it was a real "page turner" for me. Did Jim Carrey reveal all? No. Does it feel honest? Yes, I think so. Did I come away feeling like I understand the life of one of the most recognizable people on the planet? In some ways, yes, I definitely have a better understanding of some of the things that I think have dogged and challenged him in his personal journey. Some of his thoughts are in code, honestly. It's probably going to take a while to unpack it all. I will be reading it again.
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- Mia
- 07-16-20
The audible version of taking an edible.
I felt this book. I made many disturbing faces and snickered often while listening to the book straight through. It was intoxicating brilliant- yet not a book that will please many of the people I know, only my favorite people.
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- J. Patterson
- 07-17-20
I hate listened to this.
After hearing Howard Stern rave about this book and interview Jim Carrey this past week I figured I would use a credit to get it and was thoroughly disappointed. It was a 100% hate listen. Like a fever dream, it was just a long rambling mess. Was it a failed screenplay? It seems like it. I kept hoping it would get better and it didn't it was the same from beginning to end. I guess I expected more. The only good thing that came out of it was 2 and 1/4 listening speed.
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- LSRT
- 07-09-20
I wanted to like it.
Every few minutes I would ask myself WTH am I reading?!? I had hoped for more of Jim Carrey but that was not the goal of this book. Or was it?!?
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- Jennifer Katz
- 07-08-20
Beautiful, Ridiculous, Deep and Wonderful. Wow!
Deep and amazing. I loved this audiobook and will listen to it again. There is so much going on that it's like that movie you want to see again and again because you know there are layers you can only see if you watch it a few times. Jeff Daniels was perfection. Best audiobook I've listened to in years.
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- aaron
- 07-13-20
Should Be Required Reading for K-3rd Graders in US
Setting all hyperbole aside, this is quite possibly the single greatest memoir ever written.
All the rumors you hear about this only being 80-90% true are complete hogwash. Believe me, this book is 100% factually accurate. ALL this stuff actually happened. And thank God Jim kept meticulous notes, journals, and camcorder cassettes in order to bring all the action to life!
Some of the greatest memoirs of all time - Churchill, Clinton, OJ Simpson - can't hold a candle to the story Jim weaves here. He's mentally firing on all cylinders and cognitively at the tippy-tip-top of his game. The man is unstoppable. He's like Paula Abdul in the eighties.
His writing style is something to be cherished and gushed over. College courses will one day be taught about how he wrote this book. It's as if the corpse of Hunter S. Thompson somehow procreated with Ernest Hemingway, while Carrot Top was standing over them and drooling.
It really is that incredible.
This is the ultimate Hollywood tell-all, and I can only hope and pray that it gets the accolades and praise it so richly deserves.
The only downside is having Jeff Daniels read it. While Jeff's a very fine bedtime story reader, I can't help but think of how much more entertaining this audiobook would've been with a REAL voice actor that actually could do passable impressions of Nic Cage, Anthony Hopkins, Gwyneth Paltrow, and others. This could easily have been the single greatest audiobook of all time, had the producers decided to take this painfully obvious route. I mean, in all seriousness, even Jim himself could've done an exponentially better job reading the book aloud. As it stands, we're left with a tired, uninterested grandpa reading the book aloud to us, wondering what could've been.
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- Baytown Anita
- 07-10-20
Pure junk
you will return it or not finish it. absolutely worst book I ever tried to read or listen to
Pure junk
Worst narration
It HURT my ears the writing was so horrible
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- jeffrey danner
- 07-14-20
Hoped for your enlightenment Jim
I’ve followed your path to enlightenment with awe and waited eagerly for this book. As it was more of a Hollywood story, sigh, I was greatly disappointed. Loved the writing style and adventure though. Your awakening is most fascinating for me. I hope you will share more of that please. Know you are deeply loved
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- Julie
- 07-09-20
Weird.....
And not in a good or entertaining way. What happened to this wonderfully funny man? Some folks just cant "do" fame. He vers off into some odd places i cant describe....I think this was a horrible example of what his story could be.
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- MR S G WILSON
- 07-19-20
Confusing
I was looking forward to this. I didn’t really know what to expect. It doesn’t really build on any characters and makes little sense (to me) most of the way through.
I recall any tension comedy or drama. I think it’s supposed to be deeply though provoking.
This is my first review. Only because I feel like I’ve wasted 5 hours on this. Sorry Jimbo.
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- millie sogara
- 10-19-20
memorable not misinformed
A shape shifting narrative, at once Carey's musings, at once sci-fi metaphors. an uissable voyage.
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-20-20
Enjoyable but...
confusing! enjoyed the stories and the goings on but half the time I did not know what the hell was going on nevermind what was real or unreal! Maybe that is the point!!
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-10-20
Disappointed And Surprised
Let me begin by saying that I am a massive Jim Carrey fan. So it should come as no surprise to you that I was really very excited when I heard that he was writing a novel. And I was even more excited when the title of the novel had "memoirs" in it. I've always found Jim Carrey's personality, behind all the shabangg, to be very... otherworldly; as though he's unlocked some next level of living. And that is exactly why I love taking a deep dive into his mind. So I went in expecting just that. Instead, I got a fictional tale, that while also doing a deep dive of sorts into the outlandish mind of Jim Carrey, didn't really allow me to brush past false tales and land straight to reality.
The story did give me glimpses of what Jim Carrey is, but I finished the book a little perturbed and exhausted. It was a little pretentious, a little crazier than expected and a ride that overall disappointed more than excite.
All in all, dumb down your expectations and you're in for a ride.
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- Sara price
- 08-01-20
I can't stop listening to this masterpiece
Mr Jim Carrey this book is amazing u should make it into a movie
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- Anonymous User
- 07-26-20
Extremely boring
Sorry Jim, but you obviously should stay to comedy. I know that you think that this should be deep and profound, but it's just boring to listen to.
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- Exmothian
- 07-12-20
Unique and Moreish!
After a short while you're thinking "what the...?!" but once you abandon your reality it becomes a very entertaining and intriguing story. Narrator for once adds positively to the experience. The ending begs a sequel with the return of the ladies on the Triumph!
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- Will Sam
- 03-16-22
A funny and insightful critique of Hollywood
A funny and insightful critique of stardom in Hollywood. Really enjoyable and although it's a bit out there... it's also totally believable. God bless Nicolas Cage.
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- Virginia Quigley
- 10-26-21
One of the most pointless books I’ve ever heard.
I just don’t get it. Pointless. If is non fiction what is it actually about? No idea. Save yourself some valuable time and listen to something else instead. Sadly I have to give it one star in order to submit a review, when actually it deserves 0 stars.
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- Antlers
- 04-29-21
Meh...
Don’t know what I was expecting but having followed Jim on his ethereal journey over the last few decades and this was sorely disappointing. Big fan of Jeff too but just found his voice monotonous and droning. There are some decent lines along the way, which teased out the odd smile but tough to get through - it’s grating rather than gritty! Can’t bring myself to score it a 1, so it’s scraping a two! First book to send back to audible.
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- Nathan Dutton
- 09-02-20
Don't beam me up.
Different. Wasn't prepared for such a story. Daniels voice was like slow jazz. Perfect.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-02-22
Insanity meets self indulgence
I hang in with this, mainly because of Jeff Daniel’s narration - otherwise I would characterise this as self indulgent shite. A meandering story of nothing in particular.
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- Strider
- 08-05-21
Jim, I've missed you
Jim Carrey. One of the funniest men on the planet let's his art flow through these pages. Seeing inside the minds of one of the biggest stars of my childhood is great but sometimes I just want to find Jim and hug him lol. Literally unlike any thing else I've ever read and it was a welcome surprise. From Disney To relationships, UFOs to Anthony Hopkins and beyond into the nether. If you even remotely like Jim Carrey or just need a little change in perspective through some laughter - pick this up. And also, Nic Cage I love you, man.
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- Jay_Lobasso
- 01-17-21
Journey into the self
I have always been a Jim Carrey fan and that extends to his recent philosophies.
In choosing to read this book I presumed I would be presented with an alternate take on Jim's life, a sort of embellished autobiography. I never imagined the journey it would take however, and was thoroughly entertained, laughing out loud one minute, and feeling deep longing and pathos the next.
Truly a winding journey into the self, with a few embellished star appearances along the way that leave you laughing but also wondering how much embellishment was actually required.
Lastly, if Nicolas Cage was represented even minutely close to his real self, I would not at all be surprised as the Nic Cage in this book is glorious.
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- Katie Batty
- 10-26-20
Bizarre but brilliant
An entertaining book that gave thoughtful insights into fame, performance, capitalism and so much more.
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- katrina
- 09-07-20
first time I have ever WATCHED a book
No word currently exists in the human language to express the goodness of this audiobook.
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- Josh
- 08-12-20
Starts strong, strange ending
Enjoyable ride but gets weirder and weirder. Someone should probably ask Jim Carrey if he's okay.
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- Tracy
- 08-03-20
Started off good then got too weird
I enjoyed it to start with but it just got really weird at the end.