50 Ways to Leave Your 50’S by Scott Ludwig

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Scott Ludwig’s hilarious illustrated memoir about his last year before sixty. 50 Ways to Leave Your 50’s follows the author as he counts down the final year of his fifties — one adventure at a time — in stories, lists, and cartoons.

Ludwig is no stranger to making readers laugh, and this self-deprecating collection is his funniest yet: the aches, the anxieties, and the absurdities of approaching sixty, rendered with warmth and impeccable comic timing. Published in 2015, it is a celebration of aging disgracefully — on purpose. Ludwig’s cartoons punctuate the prose with visual punchlines, and his stories — of colonoscopies and bucket lists, of vanity and mortality — are laugh-out-loud funny precisely because they are true. Ludwig’s self-deprecation never becomes self-pity; instead, it is the engine of his comedy and the source of his surprising wisdom about aging well.

For the fifty-something and those who love them — proof that the best years have the best jokes. Growing older has never been this funny.

50 Ways to Leave Your 50’s is Scott Ludwig’s hilarious illustrated memoir about his last year on earth before turning sixty. Published in 2015 by iUniverse, this self-deprecating collection of stories, lists and cartoons follows the author as he counts down the final year of his fifties — one adventure at a time.

Ludwig is no stranger to making readers laugh: his earlier humor book In It for the Long Run included the reader-favorite chapter “You Can Call Me Al.” Here he turns the same sharp, good-natured wit on everything the big 5-0 throws at you — aging, fitness, family, work, and the wisdom (or lack of it) that comes with experience.

Part memoir, part comedy survival guide, 50 Ways to Leave Your 50’s is the perfect gift for anyone staring down a fiftieth birthday, slogging through middle age, or simply in need of a good laugh. Funny, honest and endlessly relatable, it proves that the best way to face getting older is to do it laughing.