How to Be Perfect

If you like shows like The Office (U.S.) and The Good Place, you will love the sense of humor in this. (I have not seen Parks & Rec yet, but that is on our list once Matt and I finish 30 Rock.) I laughed out loud a lot, because it turns out Kant is kind of ridiculous and Schur presents him as kind of a stick in the mud, and also one would hope that a seasoned comedy writer would be funny, and he is.

Schur manages to take a topic that I have little interest in (navel-gazing erm, philosophy) and presents a whole bunch of different people's attitudes toward it (utilitarianism! the golden mean! existentialism! which people should fear being hit by trolleys!) in a way that it's not only understandable, but somehow simultaneously hilarious and earnest about ways we can always do better at being human? Which, just today I told Matt that I wished people were better, also very earnestly, and Matt is now well on his way since I put this book in his nightstand book stack! (jk he's already a way better person than I am, but he will still enjoy this book as much as I did, and also he bought it for me for Valentine's Day but he told me he wanted to read it when I was done.)