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That's A Bad Name For A Book 2: Because therapy is expensive, so I wrote another book instead.

by Marlin Zelmore

A comic sequel built from essays, rants, and confessions

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A comic sequel built from essays, rants, and confessions

Marlin Zelmore’s second book continues in a collection format, mixing essays, rants, and personal confessions with comedy. Its subjects range from childhood memories and everyday absurdities to the awkwardness of making a sequel with an intentionally ridiculous title. The subtitle frames the book’s premise as writing in place of therapy, while the description emphasizes candid reflections and comic tangents. Together, these elements place humor alongside the messiness of ordinary life, with the jokes sometimes turning toward the discomfort of recognizing oneself in the material.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in humorous graphic novels.
  • Readers who enjoy comic essays, rants, and personal confessions.
  • Those drawn to humor about everyday absurdities and overthinking.

Themes

Humor and self-reflectionChildhood memoriesEveryday absurditiesOverthinking and candid confession

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Book overview

In this outrageous sequel of essays, rants, and questionable wisdom, Marlin Zelmore Jr. doubles down on the chaos. If Book 1 made you laugh when you weren't supposed to, Book 2 will make you laugh louder and maybe worry about why you're laughing at all.

 

Nothing is safe this time: not childhood memories, not everyday absurdities, not even the idea of writing a sequel with such a ridiculous title. With sharper punchlines, sillier tangents, and brutally honest confessions, Zelmore delivers comedy that's equal parts uncomfortably relatable and wildly entertaining.

 

This is a book for the people who know life is messy and choose to laugh about it anyway. For the overthinkers, the shower-argument champions, and anyone who has ever laughed in church or muttered "why is this too real?" in public.

 

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