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Some parts of this made absolutely no sense in audio format.
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The title is the best part, it goes downhill from there. 
Some parts were funny, most were just ...ok. 
It tries to be very insightful but the insights it offers are pretty basic and don't stick around after you turn the page. I ended up skipping a lot of the filler lists between chapters because they were just bland jokes that weren't quite funny and felt like they were just there to pad the page number. 
Reading this was like getting to know someone who seems nice enough but halfway through you realise you're not going to be friends and you have to sit through the rest of it with a forced smile until you finish and never have to see each other again. 
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Zimmerman perfectly captured my feelings about visiting the South in a chapter that comedically explores his struggle to maintain his individuality and healthy habits while returning home to visit family. IYKYK. He writes:

“There’s a tension in southern air—the strange bedfellows of homophobia and humidity, and the ever-present terror that the person you were might be long behind you, but they are still breathing down your neck” (p.10).

Yet, IIHIH? is, in all seriousness, a funny, fast-paced book that I devoured from cover to cover in less than 32 hours. Zimmerman doesn’t just tackle topics; he recounts his coming of age—accepting his sexuality, losing his birth religion, searching for love, acclimating to an Ivy League college as a low-income student, moving to a major metro (NYC), and incorporating life lessons learned while navigating the highs and lows of transitioning from one’s 20s into their 30s.

IIHIH? has a similar feel to Just By Looking at Him by Ryan O’Connell and Big Gay Wedding by Byron Lane—hilarious and honest, yet deeply aware of the complexities of navigating life in the margins. These essays made me LOL while others, despite their brevity, struck me with their depth. This was my first time being introduced to a comedian through literature. I appreciated this debut and it made me want to check out more of Zimmerman and his stand up. What a treat.

A David Sedaris for my generation, meant as positively as possible.
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It’s funny and I loved it ! 
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would've been a 5 if the chuckles went audible

3.5 honestly didn’t expect to rate so high but i think there was something about this collection that felt different than other audiobios/memoirs etc it didn’t feel like it was going anywhere or building to any conclusions which i enjoyed it felt like connected to real life that way. there were jokes that didn’t land but it didn’t bother me too bad. will recommend to fellow religiously traumatized queer folk