Let's Be Less Stupid: An Attempt to Maintain My Mental Faculties Audiobook

Quotes

• “Smarten up with Marx’s quizzes, brainteasers, anecdotes, and self-help guides while giving your funny bone a witty workout.”

  — Elle

• “The New Yorker humorist demands to know what middle age has done with her brain—but if this new collection is a measure, she’s as sharp as ever.”

  — O, The Oprah Magazine

• “Delivers salutary cognitive jolts amid the general hilarity…If you regularly arrive in rooms with no memory of what you were looking for, this one is for you.”

  — Nature

• “Since one of the meditation techniques mentioned is laughter, merely reading this book could help your hippocampus feel the burn. Start with Marx’s suggestions, then plot your personal brain boot camp since, sadly, liposuction is not an option for shaping up an aging brain.”

  — BookPage

• “Patty Marx’s unending wit, comedy, insight, and panic are here on display in her new, exciting, book.”

  — Steve Martin, American comedian and actor

• “Patty Marx has plenty of advice to help you keep your mind young, while acknowledging how hopeless the dream of maintaining a young brain really is. So, don’t think about it; let your mind go blank; look at the pictures, and laugh out loud.”

  — Bill Nye, television host

• “This book is hilarious. In gleefully mocking her own feeble brain, Patty Marx reveals herself to be downright brilliant. Predictably, her humor is packed with merriment, fizzy wit and belly laughs, but here’s the surprise: she brings truckloads of knowledge to her complex subject and even the occasional flash of wisdom.”

  — John Lithgow, Emmy Award winning-American actor

• “Patty Marx’s new book on the mind and its slippages is one more welcome Marxian performance: fascinating truths, offered with wit, and wonderful wit, with truth inside it.”

  — Adam Gopnik, Canadian American writer for the New Yorker

• “If you had a conversation with your funniest, smartest friend about your secret fear of losing your mind, this is what it would sound like. Marx’s book is hilarious, engaging, and jammed with wonderfully oddball science, delivered with her inimitable wit. A must-read for anyone who has a brain.”

  — Susan Orlean, American journalist and author of Saturday Night

• Patty Marx's unending wit, comedy, insight, and panic are here on display in her new, exciting, book.

  — Steve Martin

• This book is hilarious. In gleefully mocking her own feeble brain, Patty Marx reveals herself to be downright brilliant. Predictably, her humor is packed with merriment, fizzy wit and belly laughs, but here's the surprise: she brings truckloads of knowledge to her complex subject and even the occasional flash of wisdom.

  — John Lithgow

• Patty Marx has plenty of advice to help you keep your mind young- while acknowledging how hopeless the dream of maintaining a young brain really is. So, don't think about it; let your mind go blank; look at the pictures, and laugh out loud.

  — Bill Nye

• Patty Marx's new book on the mind and its slippages is one more welcome Marxian performance: fascinating truths, offered with wit, and wonderful wit, with truth inside it.

  — Adam Gopnik

• Does laughing out loud make you smarter? Scientists need to study the brains of people right after they've read anything by Patricia Marx."—Andy Borowitz

• Patty Marx is one of the funniest, smartest people I know. I am pretty sure I have gotten smarter, or at least less stupid, since reading this book. You will too!

  — Roz Chast

• In this juggernaut trek through various scientific labyrinths, Ms. Marx proves that it takes a huge and powerful brain to find out how stupid you are. Of course, she fails -- in fact seems to lose interest in that dismal quest about halfway through -- but so what; her purpose is to squeeze laughs out of anything and everything she does, or finds out, or screws up. What a brain, andthus what a book.

  — Bruce McCall

• If you had a conversation with your funniest, smartest friend about your secret fear of losing your mind, this is what it would sound like. Marx's book is hilarious, engaging, and jammed with wonderfully oddball science, delivered with her inimitable wit. A must-read for anyone who has a brain.

  — Susan Orlean