Shrinkage, Bryan Bishop
Shrinkage, Bryan Bishop
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Shrinkage
Manhood, Marriage, and the Tumor That Tried to Kill Me

Author: Bryan Bishop, Adam Carolla

Narrator: Bryan Bishop

Unabridged: 8 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/29/2014


Synopsis

From the popular sidekick on the Guinness World Record-breaking Adam Carolla Show comes this candid, comical, and uplifting memoir of the author's courageous battle and recovery.

At thirty years old Bryan Bishop’s life was right on track: as the sidekick on The Adam Carolla Show, his career was taking off and, newly engaged, his personal life was soaring to new heights. Then he was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor.

Suddenly Bryan’s promising future was looking at a troubling schedule of radiation and chemotherapy. But having found refuge in comedy, “Bald Bryan” recounts his alternately heartbreaking and hysterical experience of cancer treatment and recovery, from writing his will with the bravado of a pulp novelist, to taking chemo in a strip club, to achieving his life-long dream of getting another woman in the shower with him and his wife (even if it was only for physical therapy). These and other charmingly twisted scenes make the serious truly a laughing matter. Now four years since his initial diagnosis, Bryan celebrates how his aggressive treatment shrunk his tumor and gave him a new lease on life.

Through odds and obstacles, blunders and dilemmas, Bryan radiates through his narrative with wonder and humor. This profound, honest, and surprisingly funny recovery audiobook is a Cancer Schmancer for the Jimmy Kimmel Live! crowd.

Length: 8 hours and 01 minutes

About The Author

BRYAN BISHOP has been the on-air sidekick for The Adam Carolla Show since 2006. What started as a syndicated morning radio show evolved into The World's Most Downloaded Podcast, as certified by the Guinness Book of World Records. In 2009 - while he was engaged - he was diagnosed with a brain tumor: an inoperable brain stem glioma. He was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Christie.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Gwynne

So divided on this one. The best things: (1) fascinating, honest, but fairly upbeat account of an unusual, personal, difficult experience (i.e., having an inoperable brain tumor). (2) Full of down-to-earth advice that will come in handy if I ever get cancer, or when someone I know does. (3) Especial......more

Goodreads review by Matthew

As a fan of the Adam Carolla podcast as well as Bryan Bishop (and Anderson Cowan)'s own podcast, The Film Vault, I thought I knew Bryan Bishop. And to some degree, his memoir "Shrinkage" doesn't dispel some of those ideas. He's admittedly smug (or self-satisfied), though this book doesn't have nearl......more

Goodreads review by Dana

This book was painful to get through. I was not a fan of this author, his personality and his writing fell flat for me. The humour felt forced and some of the "tumor tips" were more common sense than actual tips. If any of you have seen the Advice Mallard meme than you know what I'm talking about. A......more

Goodreads review by Eliot

Somehow I found myself with an advanced copy of this book and jumped right in. Bryan's writing style is very conversational and comfortable, filled with goofy footnotes and random asides throughout. This can be a bit much in the early part of the book as he recounts his life up until his diagnosis,......more

Goodreads review by Heidi

I received a free copy of this book through Goodreads First Reads. FTC guidelines: check! I had never heard of Bald Bryan so I didn't have any preconceived notions about how his memoir should read. I found his humor to be similar to the tone of Adam Carolla's book: In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks.......more