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Summary: Laughed through the whole book
Review: I have always liked a book that could make me laugh, I just didn't know there could be one that would make me laugh all the way through the book. I read it on a flight when I was traveling alone. I felt silly laughing out loud among strangers, but it did make the trip go quickly, and I didn't get put in any soft rooms. I would say if the subject of drinking isn't offensive to you, this is one very fun book! I am giving this book to both of my grown daughters to read.
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Summary: SO BAD.
Review: I bought this book after stumbling across it at the amazon.com web site...it sounded hysterical and had gotten great reviews and seemed like the perfect book for an upcoming cross-country flight. It was so not funny. So not original. Who cares about someone passing out on a lawn? I just didn't find the book even remotely amusing...my college/early-20 days were far more amusing to me than this book ever could be. In order to find this book funny, my guess is that you'd have to be there...it's one unfunny, unoriginal, uninspiring, half-assed inside joke.
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Summary: A lot of fun
Review: I read this on the airplane. It was hilarious. I can't wait for her new book to come out.
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Summary: absolutely pee in your pants funny.......
Review: I am so happy to see that other people who read this book had a similar reaction to me. I was sitting on the subway going to work and reading this book, when I started laughing so hard that tears were coming down my face. Needless to say, I had to put the book away for fear of cackling out loud. Laurie is a friend of a friend and when he recommended the book I was doubtful. However, I have never laughed so hard - she gives David Sedaris a run for his money. It makes us remember the fall-down drunk, self-deprecating loser in all of us. I'm buying it for all my girlfriends for X-Mas and I suggest you all do the same!
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Summary: If you think the cover's funny, wait 'til you read the book!
Review: I saw the cover, and I laughed. I read an excerpt online, and I laughed. I *had* to have this book. Once I got it, I kept it on my desk at work so I could read it during lunch. Eventually I had to take it home because my constant chuckling disturbed my coworker. Laurie Notaro has a gift, and bless her heart for sharing it with us. She takes the most hideously embarrassing moments of her life and the lives of her friends and family, and publishes them for our amusement. This girl will expose any flaw for a laugh. She's the kind of hard-drinking life-of-the-party gal you would love to have as a friend, except you know you'd only wind up as fodder for her next collection of stories. Some of my favorite moments were in the restaurant where she thinks she sees her eighth grade math teacher-the one who made her add fractions in front of the Slow Class until she cried-and offers to figure their tip to prove that she can. And when she goes to the gym and is shocked to see women roaming around the locker room with their "lentils" exposed, she asks, "Who has that much self-esteem that they could bare it all and not burst into tears?" I hear she's finishing her next book, Autobiography of a Fat Bride, and I plan to snap it right up. It should be clear that Idiot Girls Action-Adventure Club is not a novel, and while some of the stories are related, many are not. It's the kind of book you can pick up any time, turn to any page and be assured of disturbing your co-worker.
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Summary: I am an Idiot Girl, too!
Review: This is the funniest book I have read in a looooong time. I read the book in a day and a half, then read it again. Do yourself a favor and buy this book, then buy copies for your Idiot Girl-friends. Laurie Notaro needs to write another book soon!
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Summary: Best airport read
Review: I picked the book up for something to read while I was on a flight, but I didn't expect it to be so funny! The book is a ten if you want to relax. It's compilations of her funny stories in a book. ...
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Summary: Great, lighthearted, fun read!
Review: I picked up this book based on the cover and the title. I read the first page while sitting in the book store, immediately bought it and ran home to read it. My only apprehension about the book was that it appeared to be a collection of short stories, which I hate, because I'm always disappointed when they're over. I don't think i've ever laughed out as much as I did while reading Notaro's stories. I love her dry sense of humor and candid story-telling. The only disappointment I felt while reading this book was when I got to the last page-- I didn't want it to end.
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Summary: Finally A Club That Would Have Me As A Member
Review: If you approach essay collections with caution, unconvinced about the benefits of spending 200 pages knocking around inside the author's head -- hesitate no longer. Any one of this book's essays is worth the price of the entire book. Laurie Notaro has taken life's foibles -- the type that aren't so funny when they happen to you -- and turned them into a hilarious chronicle of her self-described "magnificent and clumsy life." Never did I think I would laugh so uncontrollably at all the life quirks, curve balls, hiccups and motley disasters that have made me the bitter and cynical gal I am. Notaro effortlesly tackles a grandmother who bursts with Emily Littellas, public restroom etiquette, dumpster diving for HoHo's with your granddad, accidentally becoming responsible for human remains, obstreperous parents who have e-mail, high school reunions, being mistaken for a homeless person at jury duty, commitment-phobe comeuppance, self-esteem at the gym, mortification at the gyno's, crippling candy apples at the bank drive-through, misidentifying people at restaurants and about a thousand of the other misadventures that life loves to randomly heave at the unsuspecting. Personally, I never suspected 90% of the things life has tossed my way. What a relief to find out not only that these types of things do happen to other people, but that you can laugh at them until your stomach hurts -- and that we even get our own club.
If Dorothy Parker and Mark Twain had a great-grandchild running amok in 2002, it would be Laurie Notaro.
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Summary: Short and Sweet and Always good for a Laugh
Review: In this hilarious collection of the incidents which have befallen Laurie in her lifetime, we get a glimpse of each of our most embarrassing moments wrapped up into cute little chapter. Drafted from Laurie Notaro's newspaper column, each chapter is mostly unrelated, and perfect for an afternoon of reading when there is nothing better to be done. This is truly a clever and smart novel. The writing is not superior, but rather gets right to the core of what it is to live the life of Laurie Notaro. walk to the Walk and talk the Talk. I recommend it to any woman who's looking for a good book to read before bed, at meals, or while getting her hair done. Great Read!
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