# Based on a True Story

**Author(s):** Norm Macdonald
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (1 unpaid reviews; need 5)
**Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/based-on-a-true-story/verdict.json
**Genres:** humor, literary-fiction, biography
**Pages:** 256
**Publisher:** Random House Audio
**Published:** Fri Jan 01 2016 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780812993622
**ISBN-10:** 1524703184
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/based-on-a-true-story

## Description

Fictional Memoir. A Novel containing scattered facts which are interleaved into fictional stories creating a journey through a fictional memoir of the author, which includes growing up in rural Canada, his SNL (TV show) days and many other anecdotes.
This is an adventure and a retrospective of life. A humoristic literary work with a very unique style, matching the author's comedic and reflective take on life.

## SageChimp reader verdict

Based on a True Story has only 1 unpaid published review on SageChimp (need 5). That is not enough to say whether the book is genuinely well-liked or amplified by paid/ARC/BookTok hype. Do not treat Amazon, Goodreads, or social scores as SageChimp evidence.

- **Status:** Not enough unpaid reviews (`insufficient_data`)
- **Paid-hype signal:** Cannot judge paid hype from this sample (`insufficient_data`)
- **Unpaid reviews:** 1 (avg 4.0/5)
- **ARC / incentivized reviews:** 0
- **Machine-readable:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/based-on-a-true-story/verdict.json

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## Community Reviews (showing 1 of 1)

### ★★★★ (Untitled) — kristin