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The Fran Lebowitz Reader by Fran Lebowitz

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Adoro Fran Lebowitz, adoro il suo umorismo, ho adorato moltissime parti di questo libro. Unico difetto a mio parere è una lunghezza un po' eccessiva, per quanto sia sempre incredibilmente piacevole leggere le battute taglienti della Lebowitz, avrei tagliato.

lozelson_'s review

5.0

God I love her

yellowdresses's review

2.0

This would've been so much better if it'd been read aloud instead of written down.

profumodipergamena's review against another edition

4.0

funny lighthearted fast-paced

sinjake's review

3.5

funny reflective medium-paced

nickolette's review

1.0

I love Fran Lebowitz the public figure, the canny social satirist, and it looks like I hate Fran Lebowitz the writer.
“Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass. Your life story would not make a good book. Do not even try.”
She says and she’s been living by this credo for decades. Her so-called writer’s block-ade. These essays have been written back in the late 70s – early 80s and we can think of them as the mistakes of youth. That period of a person’s life that she is allowed to believe in her artistic ability. The essays all have the same structure – an ok intro and then pointless lists, some “funny advice” or what have you that manages to bore the reader by the end of the first page of a three-page work.