--- product_id: 286646 title: "Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened" price: "AED 89" currency: AED in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.ae/products/286646-hyperbole-and-a-half-unfortunate-situations-flawed-coping-mechanisms-mayhem store_origin: AE region: United Arab Emirates --- # 4.6/5 star rating Rainbow-colored chapter pages 13,200+ reviews Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened **Price:** AED 89 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🌈 Laugh, relate, and belong with the cult classic that’s more colorful than your Monday meetings! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened - **How much does it cost?** AED 89 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ae](https://www.desertcart.ae/products/286646-hyperbole-and-a-half-unfortunate-situations-flawed-coping-mechanisms-mayhem) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Used but in Good Condition:** Eco-friendly choice with free shipping—grab this gem before it’s gone! - • **Visually Unique Rainbow Pages:** Each chapter printed on different-colored pages for a vibrant, tactile reading experience. - • **Raw, Relatable Humor & Honesty:** Dive into brutally honest, hilarious takes on depression, identity, and everyday chaos. - • **Perfect for Millennial Managers:** Balance work stress with laughter and insight—your new go-to for mental refreshment. - • **A Bestseller with a Cult Following:** Ranked #34 in Comic Strips and #144 in Fiction Satire—join the thousands who can't put it down. ## Overview Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh is a bestselling, critically acclaimed illustrated memoir blending humor and raw honesty. Featuring over 13,000 rave reviews and a unique rainbow-colored page design, this used copy in good condition offers millennial professionals a refreshing escape through candid stories on mental health, identity, and everyday mayhem. ## Description A #1 New York Times bestselling illustrated memoir, this “funny and smart as hell” (Bill Gates) collection captures everyday life, mental health, and human absurdity through deceptively simple drawings and razor-sharp wit . Every time Allie Brosh posted a new piece on her beloved blog Hyperbole and a Half , the internet erupted—and now her breakout book brings that voice to the page in full color. Featuring new content, this expanded edition includes ten never-before-seen essays, a fully revised and expanded piece, and fan favorites such as “The God of Cake,” “Dogs Don’t Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving,” and the groundbreaking essays “Adventures in Depression” and “Depression Part Two,” widely praised for their honesty and insight. With minimalist illustrations and brutally funny observations, Brosh explores dogs, cake, growing up, emotional chaos, and the strange logic of the human mind. Her work manages to be laugh-out-loud hilarious while also offering one of the most relatable and accessible portrayals of depression ever written. Funny, smart, and emotionally resonant, this illustrated essay collection launched Allie Brosh as a major voice in American humor and remains a defining work of contemporary humor. Review: Hilarious Book! - Allie Brosh has changed the internet, and all for the better. Her blog, Hyperbole and A Half, is a force to be reckoned with when it comes to internet humour. By combining acerbic wit and wonderfully ‘amateur’ MS Paint drawings, Brosh has created some of the best comedy on the internet. If you’ve ever seen the “All the Things!” meme, you’ve been impacted by Allie’s work. I’ve been keeping tabs on the blog since I first found out about it a couple of years ago. There was a time when Allie updated regularly; after a while, there was a big stretch of time when she didn’t. The reason for the gap in posts is that she was struggling against depression – and when she did update, she posted what is one of the best ways that people can understand what it’s like for those with depression. Her “Adventures in Depression” and “Depression Part 2” make for seriously compelling reading. That’s the beauty of her writing – it details intensely personal struggles intermixed with sweet humour and a real zaniness to which practically everyone can relate. Once you add in the professional amateurism of her drawings, its difficult to start reading her work without finishing ALL the posts. The same is true for the book. I was reticent to start reading it at 1am, because I knew that it was something I wouldn’t be able to put down before I finished the entire thing. Of course, I was right – I read the entire book before going to sleep. As it’s a mixture of some previously published work and never-before-seen stories, I figured that I would have a leg up on finishing it because I’d read some of it before. I ended up re-reading the stories I’d read before, so that was entirely not the case! It was well worth it, because even in the work I’d seen before there were some moments when I was struggling not to laugh out loud and wake my wife. In fact, I had to get up and get out of bed at one point because I was laughing so hard that I really thought that despite the Tempurpedic mattress’ inability to transfer kinetic energy that she might wake up terrified there was an earthquake. I really can’t recommend this book enough. Buy it, and make Allie Brosh deservedly rich! Review: This book is way better than cigarettes. - I got the book this morning, and as I was hobbled by pain from an ACL surgery and unable to take painkillers because they would make me loopy at work, instead I read this all day. (Shhhhh. It is okay. I also helped customers.) There are a million things I love about this book, but I can start with the fact that each chapter is printed on different-colored pages than the ones on either side of it, which makes the book look like a rainbow when it is closed. A RAINBOW, GUYS. The Depression chapters (previously published on her blog) are revelations to those who have experienced depression and touchstones of understanding for those who have not. The Dog chapters are hilarious to both dog-lovers and cat-lovers (AKA dog haters). The chapters that peek into her childhood make me wish I remembered anything about my life before I was twelve. But you know what? I'm going to take a page from this book, and just imagine that my childhood was just as fantastical, wild, revelatory, unintentionally hilarious, and unique. Yes, there are a few chapters that are repeats from the blog. Sadly, the fish incident did not make it... that one is still my favorite. But the ones that did make it are definitely worth the re-read. Also, the majority of the book is new material, including some introspective chapters ("Thoughts and Feelings" and the two-part "Identity" chapters). Those, to me, were the best ones of the whole book. I love that the author is so freaking honest (can you swear on desertcart? Imma go with no) about EVERYTHING. She holds this mirror up to her guiding principles and then picks everything apart until she's left with this uncivilized and selfish husk, which she then covers up in a sparkly jumpsuit to make it all better. WHICH IS SOMETHING WE ALL DO. We're all basically uncivilized and selfish. But this author has the guts to admit it. YOU ARE BRAVE, ALLIE. YOU ARE. I feel strangely proud of the author for producing this book. Proud like a father, even though she is no relation to me and I have never really met her. I want to give her all the gold stars possible. If there were more than five available for this review, I would have gone with more than five. All the way up to eleventy. Buy this book. Read it. Go read the blog. Re-read everything. Then buy the book for your friends. ## Features - Used Book in Good Condition ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #13,680 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #13 in Educational & Nonfiction Graphic Novels #28 in Comic Strips (Books) #431 in Memoirs (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 13,289 Reviews | ## Images ![Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71DsHN46D6L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hilarious Book! *by T***N on August 16, 2014* Allie Brosh has changed the internet, and all for the better. Her blog, Hyperbole and A Half, is a force to be reckoned with when it comes to internet humour. By combining acerbic wit and wonderfully ‘amateur’ MS Paint drawings, Brosh has created some of the best comedy on the internet. If you’ve ever seen the “All the Things!” meme, you’ve been impacted by Allie’s work. I’ve been keeping tabs on the blog since I first found out about it a couple of years ago. There was a time when Allie updated regularly; after a while, there was a big stretch of time when she didn’t. The reason for the gap in posts is that she was struggling against depression – and when she did update, she posted what is one of the best ways that people can understand what it’s like for those with depression. Her “Adventures in Depression” and “Depression Part 2” make for seriously compelling reading. That’s the beauty of her writing – it details intensely personal struggles intermixed with sweet humour and a real zaniness to which practically everyone can relate. Once you add in the professional amateurism of her drawings, its difficult to start reading her work without finishing ALL the posts. The same is true for the book. I was reticent to start reading it at 1am, because I knew that it was something I wouldn’t be able to put down before I finished the entire thing. Of course, I was right – I read the entire book before going to sleep. As it’s a mixture of some previously published work and never-before-seen stories, I figured that I would have a leg up on finishing it because I’d read some of it before. I ended up re-reading the stories I’d read before, so that was entirely not the case! It was well worth it, because even in the work I’d seen before there were some moments when I was struggling not to laugh out loud and wake my wife. In fact, I had to get up and get out of bed at one point because I was laughing so hard that I really thought that despite the Tempurpedic mattress’ inability to transfer kinetic energy that she might wake up terrified there was an earthquake. I really can’t recommend this book enough. Buy it, and make Allie Brosh deservedly rich! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This book is way better than cigarettes. *by L***C on October 29, 2013* I got the book this morning, and as I was hobbled by pain from an ACL surgery and unable to take painkillers because they would make me loopy at work, instead I read this all day. (Shhhhh. It is okay. I also helped customers.) There are a million things I love about this book, but I can start with the fact that each chapter is printed on different-colored pages than the ones on either side of it, which makes the book look like a rainbow when it is closed. A RAINBOW, GUYS. The Depression chapters (previously published on her blog) are revelations to those who have experienced depression and touchstones of understanding for those who have not. The Dog chapters are hilarious to both dog-lovers and cat-lovers (AKA dog haters). The chapters that peek into her childhood make me wish I remembered anything about my life before I was twelve. But you know what? I'm going to take a page from this book, and just imagine that my childhood was just as fantastical, wild, revelatory, unintentionally hilarious, and unique. Yes, there are a few chapters that are repeats from the blog. Sadly, the fish incident did not make it... that one is still my favorite. But the ones that did make it are definitely worth the re-read. Also, the majority of the book is new material, including some introspective chapters ("Thoughts and Feelings" and the two-part "Identity" chapters). Those, to me, were the best ones of the whole book. I love that the author is so freaking honest (can you swear on Amazon? Imma go with no) about EVERYTHING. She holds this mirror up to her guiding principles and then picks everything apart until she's left with this uncivilized and selfish husk, which she then covers up in a sparkly jumpsuit to make it all better. WHICH IS SOMETHING WE ALL DO. We're all basically uncivilized and selfish. But this author has the guts to admit it. YOU ARE BRAVE, ALLIE. YOU ARE. I feel strangely proud of the author for producing this book. Proud like a father, even though she is no relation to me and I have never really met her. I want to give her all the gold stars possible. If there were more than five available for this review, I would have gone with more than five. All the way up to eleventy. Buy this book. Read it. Go read the blog. Re-read everything. Then buy the book for your friends. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Somewhat Dated But Still Entertaining & Insightful *by A***Y on September 30, 2020* I was a huge fan of Hyperbole and A Half, the blog, back when the only internet connection I had was 40kbps dialup (on a good day), coming from a laptop with a duct taped case, flickering screen, two missing keys, and a USB dongle modem to replace the original which got fried by lightning. Back then, I would wait a small eternity for each image to load and lean in, squinting at the dying screen, just to laugh at the entertaining and relatable content. Back then, I couldn't afford the book, and as with most meme-like things it faded to the back of my mind leaving only the "ALL the things!" meme in its place. At some point between then and now, my best friend related a story from this very book - one of her favourite books of all time - to me in order to explain that I wasn't alone in how I handled my depression and how frustrating I found others' responses to it. In the story, Allie (the author) explains that the empty lack of joy caused by depression is akin to having a dead fish. Everyone keeps telling her to just try not having dead fish or reassuring her that someday she'll have not-dead fish, completely ignoring that she is upset that her fish are dead and refusing to acknowledge that they cannot just be magically resurrected. All she wants is for someone to just acknowledge that the fish are dead and understand that having dead fish sucks. That story resonated with me, and for roughly a year, I used the metaphor to let my friend know when I was feeling depressed but not looking for magic fixes - just comforting acknowledgment. Eventually, it faded from mind, replaced by more modern references or direct honesty. Then Allie's second book happened recently. I pre-ordered it on that very same best friend's urging and absolutely loved the experience. Allie's art is so charmingly expressive even in its simplicity and she writes about things which make me feel far less alone in how I experience the world. I was excited to have everything I remembered loving about the blog in a modern book. When I related this to my friend, she bought me this book and I was overjoyed to have more of the same - I hadn't even remembered this existed! So, here I am, having just finished reading Hyperbole and A Half, the ebook rather than the blog, on a lovely flagship phone with a beautiful screen... in a format which makes me squint and lean in to read the pictures, on a mediocre wifi connection, through a router which was purchased to replace one that got fried by lightning. Some things never change. Or perhaps, they shift a bit in ways which remain achingly familiar. The relatability of the fish story is one such thing... and the urge to meme "ALL the things!" once again is also quite strong. That said, however, I wish I had read the books in order. This one is slightly dated in the language choices and in my opinion Allie has grown significantly as an author in her newer book, Solutions And Other Problems, which made it feel a bit like I was reading a regression in this order. The relatability and entertainment values are still very much there, but some stories drag too long and others are very clearly written from an early-2010s perspective. For example, in a story about discovering that one of her dogs is developmentally challenged, Allie refers to the dog's apparent lack of mental acuity by saying her dog might be r*t**ded [censored for Amazon; written fully in the book]. I couldn't help but cringe at this, even though she was using the term in a literal, pseudo-medical sort of assessment and this was written before we as a society came to the conclusion that the word needs to be avoided for all its harmful associations. It only happens in a single chapter, after which she refers to this dog as "the simple dog," but even that feels a little unpleasant. Everything else, however - even when the stories drag on longer than they should - is great. There are interesting, entertaining, heartbreaking, fascinating, relatable, and hilarious things in relatively proportionate doses. Allie's narrative voice is as conversational and smooth as listening to a good friend talk to you at a social gathering, creating a sense of camaraderie despite the obvious barrier created by being total strangers. Even the stories about "the simple dog" and the other dog adopted to be her companion are fun, especially when the dynamic between them is explored. As with the sequel book, I found the mental health issues extremely relatable. Much like Allie describes in this book, I also beat myself up internally every time life with depression makes simple tasks difficult... and then get even more demotivated by the self hatred, creating a perpetual cycle of uselessness. I imagine many people with clinical depression can relate. Additionally, I enjoyed the bits about self image and having intrusive thoughts. Here, Allie explains how she struggles with self-loathing because she wants to do bad things (like kick sand at people or make fun of people) but chooses not to because she wants to be a better person. For her, it's difficult to reconcile the realization that she has the potential to be a bad person with the effort she expends to make sure she's not. It's a refreshingly honest exploration of human nature, self image, and the existential crises caused by the places where those things don't quite properly align. It's also the source of my favourite quote in the book: "...so, you'd rather know the truth and be mad?" / "No. I want the truth to be different." That feels oddly timeless and appropriate to many situations, especially this year. Overall, I think this book deserves 4.5 stars, but we're still stuck in a world without half-star ratings on Amazon, so I'm going to round it down to properly indicate that I feel it's not quite as good as the sequel which I gave five stars. I enjoyed it and I'm sad that it's over because I want so much more from this author. The format and voice are so unique, I'm not sure I'll be able to find anything else of the sort - at least not easily. But, hey, at least I feel a little less alone in how I experience the world, now. And I both got some good laughs and a chance to enjoy my best friend's favourite book. 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