HERE'S THE DEAL: DON'T TOUCH ME (Howie Mandel) - April 5/10

Though it started out extremely poorly - I just don't care about Howie's childhood or the myriad of unusually cruel pranks he's pulled over the years - this book eventually became surprisingly readable and almost brutally honest. Mandel talks about his successes and his medical problems with a candidness that proves impossible to resist, and the book ultimately does what all good autiobiographies do: it makes the reader feel as though they know the writer personally. *** out of ****