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  • By: TJ Klune
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How to Be a Normal Person

By: TJ Klune
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Summary

Gustavo Tiberius is not normal. He knows this. Everyone in his small town of Abby, Oregon, knows this. He reads encyclopedias every night before bed. He has a pet ferret called Harry S. Truman. He owns a video rental store that no one goes to. His closest friends are a lady named Lottie with drag queen hair and a trio of elderly Vespa riders known as the We Three Queens.

Gus is not normal. And he's fine with that. All he wants is to be left alone.

Until Casey, an asexual stoner hipster and the newest employee at Lottie's Lattes, enters his life. For some reason, Casey thinks Gus is the greatest thing ever. And maybe Gus is starting to think the same thing about Casey, even if Casey is obsessive about Instagramming his food.

But Gus isn't normal and Casey deserves someone who can be. Suddenly wanting to be that someone, Gus steps out of his comfort zone and plans to become the most normal person ever.

After all, what could possibly go wrong?

©2015 TJ Klune (P)2016 Dreamspinner Press

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Wonderful

I've got a fair few of TJ Klune's books on Audible and I do enjoy them immensely but this is the first book I've listened to with this narrator and it's taken it into a new level of enjoyment. This is simply beautifully performed and I know that as soon as I've finished (one chapter left!) I'm going to go straight back to the beginning and start it again. The characters are so easy to like, the love story unusual and compelling and the narrator does an equally wonderful job of comedy and pathos. Yes it's long (it seems to be TJ Klune's trademark) but this is the first book of the author's that I haven't got a little bit impatient with as the story played out and I put that down to this brilliant narrator. I'll definitely be seeking out more of his work and can throughly recommend this as one of TJ Klune's most outstanding works.

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A fabulous book

Made all the better by a Stellar narration. I'm sure other drivers thought I had a screw loose with all the laughing I've done. The tears however are another subject! Tj Klune is a master wordsmith.

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Relate-able feels

With this book, TJ Klune has reignited in me a love for the gay romance. The characters here are in no way cookie cutter or the sort of cut and past personalities that seem to be used in this strain of fiction that I have read over the past years. Here the individuals live and on more than one occasion I had a twinge in my chest, a catch in my throat, or tear of joy attempting to escape the corner of my eye. Gus embodied every awkward feeling and action that all of us feel to some degree, and who hasn't used the internet to research a perceived upcoming problem, Oh just me then. I haven't felt this way with characters in fiction since 'The Front Runner', which I read when that burst onto the literary scene back in the mid-seventies. This is on to take to your heart.

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love it

I must have listened to this book about 10 times already and it's still makes me laugh. it's just amazing, the story is perfect, the narration is fantastic. I'm so glad that there's a second book now, which is just as good.

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Amazingly Amusing Amorous situations

Absolutely loved it, couldn't stop myself listening to this very compelling story.
The narrator was on point to pull off all these diverse characters. My favorite parts were involving the recorded calls and both Mitzi and Mytzy. Also, whenever Gus was going 'what the hell' and 'oh my god' which he does quite a bit.

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Would be better read by Michael Lesley

Have got quite a few of TJ Klunes books. The best being lightning strike heart. There are bit of that in this one, though unfortunately Derrick McClain completely misses the point, and any humour is lost, There's a gay couple, one of which is 'an actor' but not an ounce of camp anywhere..
Michael Lesley would have brought the characters to life but as it is the story plods along in a very dreary fashion.. A shame really..

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Hooked

Quirky, warm, funny, mad, unexpected.
Loved it. This would be the third book of TJ Klune so I think it's safe to say I'm hooked.

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Perfect

This is amazing and the narrator is superb.
One of the best books I've ever read.

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Hilarious, heartwarming, and hard not to love!

Let me start by saying that I absolutely love this audiobook, and I listen to it more often than most would consider healthy — in other words, it's my comfort book.

This book ticks every box for me, from the good representation, characters, story, and pacing, to the delightful subversion of a particularly tedious plot cliché at the climax of the story. What a vibrant little fictional town Abby is, and what a heartwarming and cozy love story takes place within it. To me, there's never been a book so easy to love.


As a non-straight asexual, I'm overjoyed by the representation in this book, and I find it to be very accurate to my own experiences as an abnormal, weird, and strange asexual in a non-straight relationship. Furthermore, the comedy just speaks to me. On my first listen, I quickly learned not to listen to this audiobook in public — there are entire chapters that still make me cackle even to this day. Delightfully absurd.
One of the biggest draws for me that keeps me coming back to this book is Gus. Never before have I related to a character so much. I'm not sure whether Gus was written to be autistic-coded, but as an autistic adult I can safely say that he's the closest a character has ever gotten to my own personal flavour of neurodivergent oddity, and I love him for it.


This is a lovely listen, and I highly recommend it. The only critique I'd give is the overuse of the word "said". As long as you can tolerate the occasional long stretches where every line of dialogue ends with "… (name) said," you'll be golden.

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Wonderful

Like a hug in book form - Gus and Casey are adorable, and I love them both.

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