📖

Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

Martin, Steve
Buy on Amazon Kindle
contemporary fiction memoir past tense first POV ~174 pp
features extracted 2026-04-12

Vibe

introspective autobiographical melancholic

A contemporary fiction. Expect minimal worldbuilding, dense, literary prose. Plot-driven and deeply introspective. Contains notable humor.

Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 40
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 60
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 10
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 90
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 85
externalintrospective
Ending 50
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 30
intimateepic

Content

Violence 30%
noneextreme
Sexual content 20%
noneexplicit
Humor 90%
seriouscomedic
Romance 40%
nonecentral

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count43,511
Page count~174 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVfirst

Similar Books

Yesterday I Was The Moon
Unnahar
contemporary fiction · memoir
more serious lighter prose darker
84% similar
I Wish You All the Best
Mason Deaver
contemporary fiction · young adult LGBTQ+ drama
more romance more serious darker
80% similar
Look Me in the Eye
Robison
contemporary fiction · autobiographical memoir
more violent lighter prose darker
78% similar
The Seven Storey Mountain
Merton Thomas
literary fiction · memoir
more serious less romance darker
77% similar
The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds
Alexander McCall Smith
contemporary fiction · literary fiction
more serious darker
77% similar