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Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches by John Hodgman is a travel available to read on EtoBox.

What is Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches about?

"I love everything about this hilarious book except the font size." —Jon StewartAlthough his career as a bestselling author and on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart was founded on fake news and invented facts, in 2016 that routine didn't seem as funny to John Hodgman anymore. Everyone is doing it now. Disarmed of falsehood, he was left only with the awful truth: John Hodgman is an older white male monster with bad facial hair, wandering like a privileged Sasquatch through three wildernesses: the hills of Western Massachusetts where he spent much of his youth; the painful beaches of Maine that want to kill him (and some day will); and the metaphoric haunted forest of middle age that connects them.Vacationland collects these real life wanderings, and through them you learn of the horror of freshwater clams, the evolutionary purpose of the mustache, and which animals to keep as pets and which to kill with traps and poison. There...

Who reads Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches?

It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.

Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
John Hodgman
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Published
2017
Language
EN
Category
travel
Subjects
Travel, Lifestyle
Rating
4 / 5 (736 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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