{"id":2513,"date":"2017-03-20T11:23:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T05:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/?p=2513"},"modified":"2017-03-20T11:23:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T05:53:22","slug":"based-true-story-norm-macdonald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/based-true-story-norm-macdonald\/","title":{"rendered":"Based on a True Story by Norm Macdonald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/based-true-story-norm-macdonald\/mac\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2514\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2514\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/based-true-story-norm-macdonald\/mac\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/mac.jpg?fit=500%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"mac\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/mac.jpg?fit=500%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2514\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/mac.jpg?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/mac.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/mac.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/mac.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2n5uIuj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Norm MacDonald\u2019s book Based on a True Story<\/a> is a nonfiction memoir. This is not your normal, straightforward memoir, far from it, actually. The best that I can describe it is off-the-wall. Having said that, there were parts of this book that were really funny. That was its saving grace, the humor was on point. I also like the ghostwriter part too. If you&#8217;re going to read this book, listen to the audiobook is much more fun. <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2n5uIuj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Check this book by yourself<\/a> and let me know your views on the same in comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norm MacDonald\u2019s book Based on a True Story is a nonfiction memoir. This is not your normal, straightforward memoir, far<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[408,406,407],"class_list":["post-2513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-macdonald","tag-memoir","tag-norman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgLsB5-Ex","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3663,"url":"https:\/\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/book-review-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-a-novel-about-creation-not-just-games\/","url_meta":{"origin":2513,"position":0},"title":"Book Review Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow \u2014 A Novel About Creation, Not Just Games","author":"saifuddin","date":"December 14, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Gabrielle Zevin\u2019s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is often described as a \u201cvideo game novel,\u201d but that framing undersells what the book truly achieves. 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