I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons
(Adobe EPUB eBook, OverDrive Read)
The question you're probably asking yourself right now is: What does Kevin Hart have that a book also has?
According to the three people who have seen Kevin Hart and a book in the same room, the answer is clear:
A book is compact. Kevin Hart is compact.
A book has a spine that holds it together. Kevin Hart has a spine that holds him together.
A book has a beginning. Kevin Hart's life uniquely qualifies him to write this book by also having a beginning.
It begins in North Philadelphia. He was born an accident, unwanted by his parents. His father was a drug addict who was in and out of jail. His brother was a crack dealer and petty thief. And his mother was overwhelmingly strict, beating him with belts, frying pans, and his own toys.
The odds, in short, were stacked against our young hero. But Kevin Hart, like Ernest Hemingway, J.K. Rowling, and Chocolate Droppa before him, was able to defy the odds and turn it around. In his literary debut, he takes us on a journey through what his life was, what it is today, and how he's overcome each challenge to become the man he is today.
And that man happens to be the biggest comedian in the world, with tours that sell out football stadiums and films that have collectively grossed over $3.5 billion.
He achieved this not just through hard work, determination, and talent. "Hart is an incredibly magnetic storyteller, on the page as he is onstage, and that's what shines through [in this] genial, entertaining guide to a life in comedy" (Kirkus Reviews).
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.
Kevin Hart. (2017). I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons. Simon & Schuster.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Kevin Hart. 2017. I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons. Simon & Schuster.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Kevin Hart, I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons. Simon & Schuster, 2017.
MLA Citation (style guide)Kevin Hart. I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons. Simon & Schuster, 2017.
| Library | Owned | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Shared Digital Collection | 1 | 0 |
There is 1 hold on this title.
OverDrive Product Record
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0439-1/{5E288306-C72D-4584-8DDF-D971C9DAEC20}IMG100.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0439-1/{5E288306-C72D-4584-8DDF-D971C9DAEC20}IMG200.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0439-1/{5E288306-C72D-4584-8DDF-D971C9DAEC20}IMG150.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0439-1/{5E288306-C72D-4584-8DDF-D971C9DAEC20}IMG400.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- formats
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781501155581
- name: Adobe EPUB eBook
- id: ebook-epub-adobe
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781501155581
- name: OverDrive Read
- id: ebook-overdrive
- identifiers:
- otherFormatIdentifiers
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781501155574
- mediaType
- eBook
- primaryCreator
- role: Author
- name: Kevin Hart
- isOwnedByCollections
- True
- title
- I Can't Make This Up
- dateAdded
- 2017-07-07T03:12:00Z
- contentDetails
- href: https://link.overdrive.com?websiteID=141&titleID=3051420
- type: text/html
- account:
- name: Sacramento Public Library (CA)
- id: 1151
- sortTitle
- I Cant Make This Up Life Lessons
- crossRefId
- 3051420
- subtitle
- Life Lessons
- id
- 5E288306-C72D-4584-8DDF-D971C9DAEC20
- starRating
- 4.1
OverDrive MetaData
- isPublicDomain
- False
- formats
- fileName: ICantMakeThisUp_9781501155581_3051420
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 44260888
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781501155581
- rights:
- type: Copying
- value: 0
- type: Printing
- value: 0
- type: Lending
- value: 0
- type: ReadAloud
- value: 0
- type: ExpirationRights
- value: 0
- name: Adobe EPUB eBook
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-epub-adobe
- onSaleDate: 6/6/2017
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5e288306-c72d-4584-8ddf-d971c9daec20&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- fileName: ICantMakeThisUp_9781501155581_3051420
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 42034671
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781501155581
- name: OverDrive Read
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-overdrive
- onSaleDate: 6/6/2017
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5e288306-c72d-4584-8ddf-d971c9daec20&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- keywords
- value: Facebook
- value: nike
- value: Rolling Stone
- value: Comedy
- value: hard work
- value: running
- value: Success
- value: oscars
- value: how to
- value: Kevin Hart
- value: Twitter
- value: comedians
- value: CBS
- value: funny books
- value: instagram
- value: funny memoir
- value: snapchat
- value: neil strauss
- value: night school
- value: tommy john
- value: jumanji
- value: obstacle course
- value: comedian memoir
- value: i can't make this up
- value: kevin hart book
- value: get hard
- value: 2019 oscars host
- value: 91st academy awards
- value: funny reading
- value: k hart
- value: kevin hart audiobook
- value: kevin hart instagram
- value: kevin hart memoir
- value: kevin hart movies
- value: kevin hart tiktok
- value: kevin hart twitter
- value: ride along
- value: ride along 2
- value: the wedding ringer
- value: tko:total knock out
- value: what now?
- creators
- role: Author
- fileAs: Hart, Kevin
- bioText: Kevin Hart is an award-winning actor and comedian. His films, including Kevin Hart: What Now?, Central Intelligence, Think Like a Man, Get Hard, Ride Along, The Wedding Ringer, and The Secret Life of Pets have earned over $3.5 billion at the box office. His stand-up comedy tours, including Let Me Explain, Laugh at My Pain, and What Now?, have sold out arenas and football stadiums, leading Forbes to name him the "king of comedy." He is also the first comedian with a Nike sneaker line; a television producer, creating the BET show Real Husbands of Hollywood and the Laugh Out Loud Network; and CEO of Hartbeat Productions. Hart currently lives in Los Angeles with his family.
- name: Kevin Hart
- role: Author
- fileAs: Strauss, Neil
- bioText: Neil Strauss is an award-winning Rolling Stone editor, New York Times columnist, and writer/cowriter of eight New York Times bestselling books including The Game and The Truth.
- name: Neil Strauss
- imprint
- 37 Ink
- publishDate
- 2017-06-06T00:00:00-04:00
- isOwnedByCollections
- True
- title
- I Can't Make This Up
- fullDescription
- New York Times bestselling author, superstar comedian, and Hollywood box office star Kevin Hart turns his immense talent to the written word in this "hilarious but also heartfelt" (Elle) memoir on survival, success, and the importance of believing in yourself.
The question you're probably asking yourself right now is: What does Kevin Hart have that a book also has?
According to the three people who have seen Kevin Hart and a book in the same room, the answer is clear:
A book is compact. Kevin Hart is compact.
A book has a spine that holds it together. Kevin Hart has a spine that holds him together.
A book has a beginning. Kevin Hart's life uniquely qualifies him to write this book by also having a beginning.
It begins in North Philadelphia. He was born an accident, unwanted by his parents. His father was a drug addict who was in and out of jail. His brother was a crack dealer and petty thief. And his mother was overwhelmingly strict, beating him with belts, frying pans, and his own toys.
The odds, in short, were stacked against our young hero. But Kevin Hart, like Ernest Hemingway, J.K. Rowling, and Chocolate Droppa before him, was able to defy the odds and turn it around. In his literary debut, he takes us on a journey through what his life was, what it is today, and how he's overcome each challenge to become the man he is today.
And that man happens to be the biggest comedian in the world, with tours that sell out football stadiums and films that have collectively grossed over $3.5 billion.
He achieved this not just through hard work, determination, and talent. "Hart is an incredibly magnetic storyteller, on the page as he is onstage, and that's what shines through [in this] genial, entertaining guide to a life in comedy" (Kirkus Reviews). - reviews
- premium: True
- source:
- content:
Starred review from June 12, 2017
Comedian Hart tells all in this emotion-filled memoir full of grit and humor. Writing with Rolling Stone contributor Strauss (The Game), Hart describes growing up in North Philadelphia in the 1980s and '90s with a cocaine-addict father and a caring, determined mother. Like Hart's standup, the book's tone is self-deprecating and honest: "My life began with one of the biggest lies men tell women," he writes. "I'll pull out, I promise." He writes that he inherited his mom's " commitment to hard work and my father's unique sense of humor," as well as the ability to accept reality and move on in life. His father ended up in prison and his older brother began dealing drugs; meanwhile, his mother encouraged him to finish community college but without success. Eventually Hart landed a job as a sneaker salesman in an athletic store. He was outgoing and a jokester, and eventually his coworkers encouraged him to audition at a local comedy club; it was then that he found his calling, noting the crowds' laughs "were almost as good as sex" and very addictive. His relentless drive and firm commitment to his art as a funnyman propelled his career from a stint on the Def Comedy Jam tour to a series of stand-up gigs in New York and eventually Hollywood. Inspiring and thoroughly entertaining, Hart's memoir brings his readers into his hilarious universe of stories and philosophy.
- premium: True
- source:
- content:
The popular comedian debuts with "the stories behind the jokes, and a few lessons...about life, success, parenting, and relationships."In his first book, Hart spares little detail about his personal and profession life. He chronicles his childhood with an absent father and protective mother, his toxic first marriage, and his rise to fame, punctuating each section with a lesson. Growing up in Philadelphia, the author wasn't sure what he wanted to do with his life. He watched his brother get kicked out of the house for selling drugs and being violent with his mother, experiences that reverberated through his teen years. His mother worked hard to give her children a decent life, and she kept Hart busy with after-school activities to make sure he was never alone to get into trouble like his brother. He assumed his mother's work ethic and diligence, and when he found stand-up comedy, it consumed him. Unfortunately, while he was pursuing his dream, shuttling between Philadelphia and New York, his relationship with Torrei, his first love and first wife, suffered. Comedy nerds will love the details about the author's climb up the ladder, and the sections on his adopted family at the Comedy Cellar and his relationship with fellow comedian Keith Robinson give great insight into the life of a comic who is constantly working to get better. There are some nasty personal details about Hart's relationship with Torrei and how, according to him, it became mutually abusive, ever more so with the pressure of an advancing career and children. Some of the author's lessons border on platitudes--e.g., believe in yourself, shrug off the bad stuff and move forward--and the tales about how he learned these things sometimes render the breakdowns at the ends of the sections unnecessary. But Hart is an incredibly magnetic storyteller, on the page as he is onstage, and that's what shines through here. The book could have been trimmed by about 50 pages, but Hart is a genial, entertaining guide to a life in comedy. COPYRIGHT(1) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
- popularity
- 1493
- links
- self:
- href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BWwAAAA2I/products/5e288306-c72d-4584-8ddf-d971c9daec20/metadata
- type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
- self:
- id
- 5e288306-c72d-4584-8ddf-d971c9daec20
- starRating
- 4.1
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0439-1/{5E288306-C72D-4584-8DDF-D971C9DAEC20}IMG100.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0439-1/{5E288306-C72D-4584-8DDF-D971C9DAEC20}IMG200.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0439-1/{5E288306-C72D-4584-8DDF-D971C9DAEC20}IMG150.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0439-1/{5E288306-C72D-4584-8DDF-D971C9DAEC20}IMG400.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- isPublicPerformanceAllowed
- False
- languages
- code: en
- name: English
- subjects
- value: Biography & Autobiography
- value: Self-Improvement
- value: Nonfiction
- value: Humor (Nonfiction)
- publishDateText
- 06/06/2017
- otherFormatIdentifiers
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781501155574
- mediaType
- eBook
- shortDescription
- New York Times bestselling author, superstar comedian, and Hollywood box office star Kevin Hart turns his immense talent to the written word in this "hilarious but also heartfelt" (Elle) memoir on survival, success, and the importance of believing in yourself.
The question you're probably asking yourself right now is: What does Kevin Hart have that a book also has?
According to the three people who have seen Kevin Hart and a book in the same room, the answer is clear:
A book is compact. Kevin Hart is compact.
A book has a spine that holds it together. Kevin Hart has a spine that holds him together.
A book has a beginning. Kevin Hart's life uniquely qualifies him to write this book by also having a beginning.
It begins in North Philadelphia. He was born an accident, unwanted by his parents. His father was a drug addict who was in and out of jail. His brother was a crack dealer and petty thief. And his mother was... - sortTitle
- I Cant Make This Up Life Lessons
- crossRefId
- 3051420
- subtitle
- Life Lessons
- publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- bisacCodes
- code: BIO013000
- description: Biography & Autobiography / Rich & Famous
- code: HUM000000
- description: Humor / General
- code: SEL021000
- description: Self-Help / Motivational & Inspirational
