Based On A True Story A Memoir

Rather than tell you his real life story, Norm decided to write of his one-time plan to borrow millions of dollars from various casinos in Las Vegas, turn that money into millions for himself, then retire to a ranch in Montana. Deep down, Norm seems to be happy. But Based on a True Story is much more than a memoir; it's the hilarious, inspired epic of Norm's life. Based on a True Story: A Memoir User Review - Publishers Weekly. When Norm Macdonald, one of the greatest stand-up comics of all time, was approached to write a celebrity memoir, he flatly refused, calling the genre "one step below instruction manuals." Norm then promptly took a two-year hiatus from stand-up comedy to live on a farm in northern Canada. And genius is never understood in its own time. In dispatches from a road trip to Las Vegas (part of a plan hatched to regain the fortune he'd lost to sports betting and other vices) with his sidekick and enabler, Adam Eget, Norm recounts the milestone moments, the regrets, the love. In the spare moments of a Las Vegas gambling adventure—replete with murderous. Based on a True Story: A Memoir Norm MacDonald. A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year.