Tickled Pink

Rating:
Summary: Hurray!
Review: What's not to like? Rita Rudner is funny and generous and warm, altogether engaging. I caught her act in Las Vegas last year and she is freakin' adorable. (And hot. That's right, I said it so there.) AND a snazzy dresser. Rita delivers her signature zingers in spades, and the reader gets a good overview of what it must be like to come up through the ranks in the comedy circuit. But you know what makes this book so good, so appealing? It's the voices Rita gives her characters. Each one is distinct and resonant, so gravid with character is seems to carry the entire life of the speaker in it. A writer must be very tuned into people to do that, which explains why Rita is able to make her comedy relevant and liberating to the audience, and why the audience seems to like her at once. Rita, if you ever read this, please note that three stars is a lot for me; four stars means a book changed my life and five stars means the book changes my life and the author comes over to paint my house. Mozel Tov girly-girl, the book is sweet and low-down.

Rating:
Summary: Hurray!
Review: What's not to like? Rita Rudner is funny and generous and warm, altogether engaging. I caught her act in Las Vegas last year and she is freakin' adorable. (And hot. That's right, I said it so there.) AND a snazzy dresser. Rita delivers her signature zingers in spades, and the reader gets a good overview of what it must be like to come up through the ranks in the comedy circuit. But you know what makes this book so good, so appealing? It's the voices Rita gives her characters. Each one is distinct and resonant, so gravid with character is seems to carry the entire life of the speaker in it. A writer must be very tuned into people to do that, which explains why Rita is able to make her comedy relevant and liberating to the audience, and why the audience seems to like her at once. Rita, if you ever read this, please note that three stars is a lot for me; four stars means a book changed my life and five stars means the book changes my life and the author comes over to paint my house. Mozel Tov girly-girl, the book is sweet and low-down.