Memoirs and Misinformation, Jim Carrey
Memoirs and Misinformation, Jim Carrey
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Memoirs and Misinformation
A novel

Bestseller

Author: Jim Carrey, Dana Vachon

Narrator: Jeff Daniels

Unabridged: 7 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/07/2020


Synopsis

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by John on May 24, 2020

Wtf did I just read......more

Goodreads review by Regina on August 30, 2020

I mean, if you’re going to read a semi-autobiographical novel by an A-list celebrity in which his journey culminates in a battle against aliens to save the California Coast (and the world) alongside Nic Cage, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kelsey Grammer, Kanye West, and the essence of Rodney Dangerfield, I guess......more

Goodreads review by Catherine on August 08, 2020

This book is incredibly weird...even for Jim Carrey.......more

Goodreads review by Matt on March 03, 2020

It hurts my heart to give this a low rating. I am sorry, Jim. The book was weird, and had hints of existential crisis, which normally I'd be into, but it just didn't click with me. Too many celebrity cameos or something. The ending was strange and not predictable, which I suppose is good, but overal......more

Goodreads review by Jumbo on July 10, 2020

A quick read that started out quite interesting. I was enthralled until about halfway through when it devolved into a slog of nearly incoherent rambling about the end of the world from a very rich man caught in a very deep existential and spiritual crisis. Jim has been on the decline in my psyche fo......more


Quotes

"A satirical adventure in which Carrey plumbs the chasms of Hollywood's self-obsessed culture." 
—Dave Itzkoff, The New York Times

“A simultaneously baffling and mesmerizing examination of Carrey’s psyche . . .  a reimagining of the traditional Hollywood tell-all.” 
—Thomas Floyd, The Washington Post

“Memoirs and Misinformation is, like the twisted political drawings Carrey posts on Twitter, entirely its own thing. A satire of Hollywood’s self-absorption coinciding with the end of the planet, none of it is real ... except when it is . . . A wholly strange work of autofiction, laden with symbolism and metaphor, sometimes beautiful, sometimes tragic.” 
—Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times

"An engaging, fun tale that plays with the public perceptions of celebrities, questions our compulsive need to view, and contains a gloriously off-the-wall conclusion." 
—Alexander Moran, Booklist

"Not a typical tell-all. . . . blends moving autobiography, name-droppish tabloid fodder, science-fiction, and anti-capitalist screed."
Entertainment Weekly

“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.” 
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