paddle your own canoe one man's fundamentals for delicious living

This alone reduces the dryness of the book. When I found out Ron Swanson himself narrated the book, I immediately grabbed a copy. Too dry: I bought the audio version of this book, as I enjoy listening to book on my 7 hour drive from school to visit family.

It also offers hard-bitten battle strategies in the arenas of manliness, love, style, religion, woodworking, and outdoor recreation, among many other savory entrees.Ī mix of amusing anecdotes, opinionated lessons and rants, sprinkled with offbeat gaiety, Paddle Your Own Canoe will not only tickle readers pink but may also rouse them to put down their smart phones, study a few sycamore leaves, and maybe even hand craft (and paddle) their own canoes.Īfter reading many of the one, two, and three star reviews on here, I felt I should write a short review to defend Nick and his book. Growing a perfect moustache, grilling red meat, wooing a woman-who better to deliver this tutelage than the always charming, always manly Nick Offerman, best known as Parks and Recreation's Ron Swanson? Combining his trademark comic voice and very real expertise in woodworking-he runs his own woodshop- Paddle Your Own Canoe features tales from Offerman's childhood in small-town Minooka, Illinois-'I grew up literally in the middle of a cornfield'-to his theater days in Chicago, beginnings as a carpenter/actor and the hilarious and magnificent seduction of his now-wife Megan Mullally. Parks and Recreation actor and Making It co-host Nick Offerman shares his humorous fulminations on life, manliness, meat, and much more in this New York Times bestseller.

Paddle your own canoe one man's fundamentals for delicious living