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  • Do You Mind If I Cancel?

  • (Things That Still Annoy Me)
  • Written by: Gary Janetti
  • Narrated by: Gary Janetti
  • Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (57 ratings)

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Do You Mind If I Cancel?

Written by: Gary Janetti
Narrated by: Gary Janetti
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Publisher's Summary

"If you love storytelling in the style of David Sedaris, this audiobook - narrated by Janetti himself - is for you." (Yahoo Lifestyle)

This program is read by the author.

Fans of David Sedaris, Jenny Lawson, and Tina Fey...meet your new friend Gary Janetti.

Gary Janetti, the writer and producer for some of the most popular television comedies of all time, and creator of one of the most wickedly funny Instagram accounts there is, now turns his skills into a hilarious, and poignant audiobook chronicling the pains and indignities of everyday life.

Gary spends his 20s in New York, dreaming of starring on soap operas while in reality working at a hotel where he lusts after an unattainable colleague and battles a bellman who despises it when people actually use a bell to call him. He chronicles the torture of finding a job before the internet when you had to talk on the phone all the time, and fantasizes, as we all do, about who to tell off when he finally wins an Oscar. As Gary himself says, "These are essays from my childhood and young adulthood about things that still annoy me."

Original, brazen, and laugh out loud funny, Do You Mind if I Cancel? is something not to be missed.

Praise for Do You Mind If I Cancel?:

"Gary Janetti's book is so rolling-on-the-floor funny, so brilliantly observant, and so full of heart." (Kevin Kwan)

"The writing of Gary Janetti, whether televised or tweeted, is famously incisive and sharp-tongued. What a revelation it was, therefore, to discover in these revealing personal essays an artist of great tenderness and vulnerability. And he's still funny as hell." (Armistead Maupin)

"It’s no surprise that Gary Janetti's book is laugh-out-loud funny. It is just as cutting, wild, and droll as I hoped." (Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times best-selling author of Daisy Jones and the Six)

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What the critics say

"Gary Janetti's book is so rolling-on-the-floor funny, so brilliantly observant, and so full of heart, I'm sure a jealous Prince George will decree that Gary be locked up in the Tower of London." (Kevin Kwan, New York Times best-selling author of the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy)

“It’s no surprise that Gary Janetti's book is laugh-out-loud funny. It is just as cutting, wild, and droll as I hoped.” (Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times best-selling author of Daisy Jones and the Six)

"Almost as soon as I began to read Gary Janetti’s Do You Mind If I Cancel?, I found myself feeling the way I felt when I first encountered Fran Lebowitz and David Rakoff: laughing and wanting to shout out the best bits to whoever else was in the room, even if no one else was there. This crazy quilt of memoir, cultural history, one-liners aplenty, and periodic arias of hopefulness, frustration, and brashly rude rage, is a work of intertwined great humor and great feeling. I’ve already lost my copy, snatched up by its next eager reader.” (Benjamin Dreyer, New York Times best-selling author of Dreyer's English)

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hilarious and beautifully written

I loved it start to finish. You will not regret the purchase! Gary's inflection brings it to life and all you want is more! amazing read! as a former server, his story on tea ruining his life brought me so much joy! could relate so very much!

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Perfection.

Not a gay man who grew up in New York in the '70's? Me neither. But I promise you that you will relate to Gary's stories. Always hilarious and sometimes heart breaking, I mean it when I say there is something for everyone. I will buy the book, too, so that people will know I read it, but the audiobook is read by Gary exactly how you dreamed it would be. The book is perfectly short, leaving you wanting to hear just a couple more of Gary's stories. Thanks for this gem.

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Rapier Wit

Left me wanting more. So funny, so sarcastic. Gary, you nailed it. Great narration, too.

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Laughed Out Loud

My husband and I listened to this on part of a road trip through boring ol' Saskatchewan. We were laughing so much. Time flew by and the book was over. We were suddenly three and a half hours closer to our destination.

I took one star off because there was just too much unnecessary cussing. I don't mind swearing during emotional/heated moments, trying to get a point across, or even joking. It just seemed constant and quickly became the annoying part to listen to.

I loved his narration. I always love when an author narrates their own book. He did it perfectly I didn't want to stop listening when it finished. lol.

This book was well written, evoking emotions, deep yet also lighthearted at the same time.

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Annoying narration

Unfortunately not very funny and the narration voice is annoying. Waste of a credit in my opinion.

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