Canada

Name: Canada
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Mike Myers
ISBN: 9781501948039

Author: Mike Myers

Narrator: Mike Myers

Unabridged: 5 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/22/2016

Categories: Nonfiction, Humor

Synopsis

Comedy superstar Mike Myers writes from the (true patriot) heart about his 53-year relationship with his beloved Canada. Mike Myers is a world-renowned actor, director and writer, and the man behind some of the most memorable comic characters of our time. But as he says: "no description of me is truly complete without saying I'm a Canadian." He has often winked and nodded to Canada in his outrageously accomplished body of work, but now he turns the spotlight full-beam on his homeland. His hilarious and heartfelt new book is part memoir, part history and pure entertainment. It is Mike Myers' funny and thoughtful analysis of what makes Canada Canada, Canadians Canadians and what being Canadian has always meant to him. His relationship with his home and native land continues to deepen and grow, he says. In fact, American friends have actually accused him of enjoying being Canadian-and he's happy to plead guilty as charged. A true patriot who happens to be an expatriate, Myers is in a unique position to explore Canada from within and without. With this, his first book, Mike brings his love for Canada to the fore at a time when the country is once again looking ahead with hope and national pride. Canada is a wholly subjective account of Mike's Canadian experience. Mike writes, "Some might say, 'Why didn't you include this or that?' I say there are 35 million stories waiting to be told in this country, and my book is only one of them."

Reviews

Goodreads review by Michelle on April 19, 2021

Funny, witty, and at times deeply moving, Canada is Mike Myers' love letter to his home country. Never once did I worry about crime. I had the presence of mind to realize what a great thing it is, to live in a safe country. Other countries talk about freedom, but the freedom to walk home at night, k......more

Goodreads review by Laurie • The Baking Bookworm on December 21, 2016

With the first line of his book Myers relays his love for our mutual home country of Canada. While many people know of him as an actor from SNL and the Shrek and Austin Powers series (among others), most people who have seen him in interviews know that he is also a fiercely proud Canuck. As a proud C......more

Goodreads review by Brandon on February 10, 2017

With his new book Canada, comedian/actor Mike Myers sets out to unload as much information about the country he grew up in while also detailing an abridged version of his life story. The result is an often entertaining yet interesting experiment. At the outset, Myers is quick to explain that his book......more

Goodreads review by Paul on October 10, 2022

Canada is comedian Mike Myers’s home and native land, and he clearly loves Canada very much. I love Canada, too, even though I am not a Canadian. And the creator of the Wayne’s World and Austin Powers films clearly has two purposes in writing his 2016 book that is titled simply Canada. It is both a......more

Goodreads review by Kon on July 28, 2021

Mike Myers is so likable and charismatic that it's impossible not to love this book. I did this one in audiobook and Mike narrated it. It reads a lot like a light autobiography than the history of Canada. I learned A LOT about Canada, but that's not saying much as I knew next to nothing about it bef......more