Book Recommendation – The Naked Truth

If you are looking for something to make you chuckle, laugh or guffaw, may I suggest a book I just finished? The Naked Truth by Leslie Nielsen.

If you have been a reader of this blog for awhile, you are aware of my silly sense of humor. Airplane!, Top Secret, and the Naked Gun Trilogy are among my favorite laugh out loud movies. Airplane! was the catalyst that threw Leslie Nielsen into many comedic roles.

If you take a look at the top of the book’s cover, it says that the book tells Leslie’s “Incredible Life Story – Uncensored, Uninhibited, and COMPLETELY MADE UP! The book reads just like Leslie is doing a voiceover in the Naked Gun films. It is one crazy line after another. Nielsen “offers a zany account of his life and career, providing outrageous anecdotes about his four decades in show business, famous people, and more.”

One reviewer states: This is two books in one- a parody and honest retelling of one’s life couched in blatant lies.

Sewn into this fabric of fantasy is about 25% truth-telling. The lies ares so obvious that it is not difficult to detect. Yet, within the blatant hyperbole there is much to learn about the underpinnings of an actor’s mind and motivation.

I guess hindsight gives everyone the right to distort the facts. Who cares- as long as it makes for a good story, and this book does.

I had to get the full book at the library, because the audio book was abridged. I wanted to read the whole thing after hearing the shortened version.

All in all, it was a funny way to relax and waste some time without having to think too much. Who doesn’t need that now and then?

4 out of 5 stars