So the full title of the book is The Tao of Bill Murray: Real-Life Stories of Joy, Enlightenment, and Party Crashing
Where I found it
I was at my favorite used book store. Sometimes I'll look at what they have in the humor section. They keep comics there like Garfield and Calvin and Hobbes stuff, but they also keep stuff by and about comedians. I picked this bad boy up for 75 cents.
Plot
I guess you could call this a biography. The author has talked with lots of people about Bill Murray and watched all of Bill Murray's films. He compiled this collection of stories and tried to give it a little structure. It's a random collection of stories about a man known for doing lots of very random and spontaneous things.
Favorite parts
Apparently Bill Murray had picked up a Japanese phrase book well before signing up to do Lost in Translation. When he realized that he would be in Japan, he brought the phrase book along and said lots of silly outrageous things to complete strangers.
Bill Murray and some brothers worked as caddies at a golf course while growing up. They were frequently paired with an old blind golfer and would routinely tell him that he was making great shots. As their exaggerations continued to grow they told him that he had hit a hole in 1 and the golf club awarded him a trophy. By the time that the club awarded this old blind golfer his third hole in 1 trophy they figured out what the Murray boys were doing and told them to quit it.
Bill Murray routinely plays at a Pro-Am golf tournament in California. One year he spotted a girl who had become separated from her parents. He asked security to pass her off to him so that he could help. He climbed a tree with the girl and pretended to auction her off. The stunt worked and when she was reunited with her parents, she said, "Mommy. I climbed a tree with Bill Murray!"
Rating 4/5 stars
An extremely entertaining book. The structure of the book seems a little arbitrary, but I got some good laughs out of it. This is the sort of book that you don't have to read on a schedule. You can pick up wherever you left off. If we didn't all get sucked into our cell phones while sitting on the toilet, this would be a great book to keep in the bathroom.
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