Free Range Chickens
Simon Rich
Random House
7/10
Brief, bizarre, and hysterical- this is the world of Free Range Chickens. Brought to you by one of SNL’s finest writers Simon Rich, Free Range Chickens is a tiny book full of large laughs and one liners that will have you reciting bits until your friends disown you. Though it is only 176 pages long, the book covers all the basics: youth, adolescence, adulthood, and Dracula (“You come to castle.”). A little bit of everything, and a whole lot of nothing. Interesting bits include “I think my teenaged daughter knows I read her diary,” “If adults were subjected to the same indignities as children,” and “What I want my tombstone to say when I die of encephalitis next week.”
“-Got your nose!”
“-Please just kill me. Better to die than to live the rest of my life as a monster.”
–Caitlin Elgin