title: It Takes a Worried Man: A Memoir
author:  Brendan Halpin 
description: Traumatic, touching, and shockingly funny. Bottom line: Man at his best. <i>People</i><br /><br />Raw, undisciplined, and frequently very funny.<br /><i>Boston Sunday Globe</i><br /><br />Comic, moving, profane, honest, and thought-provoking . . . an irreverent, heartbreaking, dumbfoundingly funny book about love, fear, and perseverance.<br /><i>The Arizona Republic</i>
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  ## More Sh*t My Dad Says
  
  
    
  
  
  ### Justin Halpern
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ‘Human beings fear the unknown. So, whatever’s freaking you out, grab it by
  the balls and say hello. Then it ain't the unknown anymore and it ain't scary.
  Or I guess it could be a sh*tload scarier’ Sam Halpern.
  
  
  Soon after _Sh*t My Dad Says_ began to take off, comic writer Justin Halpern
  decided to take the plunge and propose to his then girlfriend. But before
  doing so, he asked his dad's advice, which was very, very simple (and
  surprisingly clean): ‘Just take a day to think about it.’ This book is the
  story of that trip down memory lane, a toe-curlingly honest pilgrim’s progress
  of teenage relationships, sex and love by one of the funniest writers at work
  today.
  
  
  Sh*t people say about Justin Halpern:
  
  
  
  
  
  ‘Ridiculously hilarious’ _Chelsea Handler_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ‘Shoot-beer-out-your-nose funny’ _Maxim_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ‘Funny, silly, honest, lively and fresh’ _Sunday Times_
  
  
  
  
  
    
  