I loved this book. Sh*t My Dad Says – US link/ UK link is the story of a return home:

‘At 28 years old, I found myself living at home, with my 73-year-old father. As a child, my father never minced words, and when I screwed up, he had a way of cutting right through the bullshit and pointing out exactly why I was being an idiot. When I moved back in I was still, for the most part, an idiot. But this time, I was smart enough to write down all the things he said to me…’

In this slim volume we meet Justin Halpern and his dad. Almost one million people follow Mr Halpern’s philosophical musings every day on Twitter, and in this book, his son weaves a brilliantly funny, touching coming-of-age memoir around the best of his sayings. What emerges is a chaotic, hilarious, true portrait of a father and son relationship from a major new comic voice. As Justin says at one point, his dad is ‘like Socrates, but angrier, and with worse hair’; and this is the sort of shit he says…

I read Sh*t My Dad Says – US link/ UK link in one sitting. It does not have many pages and has agreat deal of white space, but it is near perfect. It is a documentation of a return to traditional values with a thick overlay of profanity. It is not a guide to life but it is a great way to stop a person from drinking their own Kool Aid. I will give this out as presents to those of my friends who need it. This quote is one I have used when people start boring on about how great some new gadget they have is:

“Son, no one gives a shit about the things your cell phone does. You didn’t invent it, you bought it. Anybody can do that.”

Go buy Sh*t My Dad Says – US link/ UK link, you won’t regret it.