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Summary: Best book of the year!
Review: I read this book and I enjoyed it! I read it in 2 days! I couldn't put it down. It was one of those books that you wanted to read all the way through. It's funny and thought-provoking and it tells-it-like-it-is. I read the other reviewer's comments of the book and I just have to say, what were you expecting? Were you expecting some time-altering novel?! It's Whoopi! It's good. BUY THE BOOK.

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Summary: Light honest thought provoking book written by a funny lady!
Review: I read this book in just a few hours and I laughed the whole time. It was a funny, sort of brutally honest look at life as she sees it. It's not meant to be this majorly serious novel as I see some people are reviewing it as...it reads like it was written for fun. It brightened my day because it made me look lightly at my life and the lives of everyone around me. I find Whoopi's writing entertaining because almost everything she talks about has happened, at least in part, to me. For the first time in a long time I found a funny, hard-to-put-down book...I highly recommend it!!

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Summary: Very funny!
Review: I read this book in one day while flying from Washington DC to Boston. It made me laugh and think about the world we live in. Whoopi please write another book! I so enjoyed this one! The Wind chapter is the best!

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Summary: I thought the book was funny and entertaining..
Review: I read this book on the plane, on my way to VA. I laughed all the way. I needed some intertainment because the flights are so boring. Thanks Whoopi, I hope you write another book.

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Summary: I am stunned by how bad this book is.
Review: I really thought I was buying a humor book--boy was I wrong. Someone apparently told Whoppi that her thoughts, feelings, and philosophies on all things banal were of general interest. Wrong, wrong, wrong. How about an occasional funny line from a funny lady?

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Summary: Nice one Whoopi!
Review: I think I must've bought a different Book to the one reviewed by others readers here! I read the reviews before I actually read the book and so was pleasantly surprised by how great it actually is.

I found Whoopi's description of how she spent Christmas with her mum and brother, and how the rituals remain with her as an adult extremely moving and similar to my own memories. As a cyclist, I back her all the way on the bad habits of people who drive, and it was refreshing to read such honest and sensible views around political correctness etc.

I'm probably biased because I love Whoopi and her work to death, but for me, I'm looking forward to a sequel- assisted or not!

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Summary: It COULD'VE been funny...
Review: I think that Whoopi has the talent to be very, very funny. Unfortunately, a combination of prejudices and trying too darn hard ruin this book as an amusing volume.

She makes statements in it that are, quite simply, offensive and uncalled-for. In addition (less importantly, but still important) she seems to dive past actual funniness and devote pages and pages to vulgar observations that rarely afflict people other than herself.

Profanity tossed in for its own sake isn't funny. Neither are candid descriptions of the disgusting bathroom habits of one's mate. It's never a good idea to do something like that--Dave Barry, the king of humor writers, never descends to this level of juvenility because it IS NOT funny, choosing to rely on wryness and exaggeration instead. Unfortunately, Ms. Goldberg seems unable to see that.

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Summary: Disappointing!
Review: I was extremely anxious to read this book but was disappointed when I finally did. Perhaps I was expecting too much but most of the book seemed to be rehashed from interviews, articles and monologues. I was expecting to be illuminated or something. I'm still a diehard Whoopi fan but will probably wait until the next book comes out in paperback!

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Summary: This book is horrible, it is boring and badly written
Review: I was extremely excited to buy this book, that is until I read it. Whoopi rambles too much and some of her sterotype comments are just plain stupid. I have truely lost some of my respect for her now that I have read this book.

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Summary: Laughing to death!
Review: I was laughing so much that people on the train were staring at me. If you like Whoopi, you will like this book. There are serious parts to it but it was trully her. Granted I do know a couple things about her now that I could have gone my whole life without knowing but, it was a great read.