Naked Beneath My Clothes/Audio Cassette

Rating:
Summary: some good laughs
Review: The audio cassette is the way to go. Why read the book when you can listen to Rita herself? With this kind of material, the written version is an incomplete substitute for the original -- standup, spoken comedy. It's all in the delivery! (If you read the book, you need to imagine it in her voice, and if you don't know her voice you are totally not getting it.) This tape is better listening than most of the stuff on the radio all day, so as long as you can concentrate on your driving and listen at the same time, it's good car audio. Or beach audio, or wherever. You'll get a few laughs, a few zings, some nods, some quotes to pass on, you'll want to play parts of it for various people in your life. I won't impart the material here, 'cause that would spoil it, so all I can say is it's worth a listen. It didn't make tears roll down my face, but it made me smile and laugh many times.

Rating:
Summary: some good laughs
Review: The audio cassette is the way to go. Why read the book when you can listen to Rita herself? With this kind of material, the written version is an incomplete substitute for the original -- standup, spoken comedy. It's all in the delivery! (If you read the book, you need to imagine it in her voice, and if you don't know her voice you are totally not getting it.) This tape is better listening than most of the stuff on the radio all day, so as long as you can concentrate on your driving and listen at the same time, it's good car audio. Or beach audio, or wherever. You'll get a few laughs, a few zings, some nods, some quotes to pass on, you'll want to play parts of it for various people in your life. I won't impart the material here, 'cause that would spoil it, so all I can say is it's worth a listen. It didn't make tears roll down my face, but it made me smile and laugh many times.

Rating:
Summary: Rita's Better Live or on tape
Review: This book was alright. I love Rudner, and I think most of my enjoyment of the book was because I was able to hear Rita's voice in my head as I read the book. If you can't do that, alot of the humor will likely fall flat. She's definitely got some insight into modern life, and the humor is almost as funny the second time around as it is the first.