Listened to: "Too Fat to Fish" by Artie Lange

Listened to: Too Fat to Fish by Artie Lange, 2008, downloaded from Overdrive.com.

A good listen. Fat, drunken, idiotic fucker writes book and then gets hooked back on heroin and is unable to finish narrating the audio version. Plenty of funny parts and lots of drug taking that induced head scratching over why Artie is still alive.

After Artie's dad fell off a roof and was paraplegic Artie started to use drugs and guzzle booze to deal with it. He lucked into a longshoreman job in Newark and kept drinking with all the money he made there. He saves enough dough to quit working as a longshoreman and make a try at show business. Auditions and stand-up in Manhattan and New Jersey lead to getting an agent and making it onto the first season of Mad TV out of 8,000 or so applicants to the job. Artie continues boozing, gets further hooked on cocaine, goes to rehab, relapses back on booze and cocaine, later gets hooked on pills, takes heroin on the advice of a drug dealer who says Artie is popping too many pills, cleans up with Subutex, relapses again. Still not dead.

Artie really likes blow-jobs from whores.

Not much else to say. Plenty of good stories that would have been much better if read by Artie and not read by Bob Levy and Baba-freaking-Booey. Gary did a competent job - for a baboon who is an amateur narrator.