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3.55 AVERAGE
3.55 AVERAGE
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This book wasn't for me.
I came to it after watching Lebowitz's Pretend It's a City, which I enjoyed a lot, the sarcasm and jokes were witty and fresh. But this book seemed more like the rants of a 20 year-old girl who hasn't experienced, much less appreciated, anything outside of NYC. I found a handful of essays quite funny and original, but most of them didn't resonate.
I came to it after watching Lebowitz's Pretend It's a City, which I enjoyed a lot, the sarcasm and jokes were witty and fresh. But this book seemed more like the rants of a 20 year-old girl who hasn't experienced, much less appreciated, anything outside of NYC. I found a handful of essays quite funny and original, but most of them didn't resonate.
Wow! Did I not like this book. What a slog! There were a couple of mildly amusing parts, but if you don't find Lebowitz funny, there's nothing interesting here. It's not like it's amusing and educational.
I might have found her mildly amusing if I came across an article in a magazine, but page after page of the same snarky, world-weary prose is really hard to take. And it's aimed so much at people living in New York! Having never even been to New York, I just don't care. I'll cut her a little slack and admit that the material might have dated, but the fact that she was in her 20s when she wrote a lot of the essays and still adopts the "I've seen it all" tone I find a little offensive.
A great disappointment. I would have abandoned it about 60 pages in but I was reading it for a book club and couldn't convince the other members to give it up. They came to regret that decision as neither of them liked it either.
I might have found her mildly amusing if I came across an article in a magazine, but page after page of the same snarky, world-weary prose is really hard to take. And it's aimed so much at people living in New York! Having never even been to New York, I just don't care. I'll cut her a little slack and admit that the material might have dated, but the fact that she was in her 20s when she wrote a lot of the essays and still adopts the "I've seen it all" tone I find a little offensive.
A great disappointment. I would have abandoned it about 60 pages in but I was reading it for a book club and couldn't convince the other members to give it up. They came to regret that decision as neither of them liked it either.
I love her, I worship her. I love the Netflix doc series. She might be the funniest person in existence. She’s a treasure. I wish I was her, am I her? I hope so.
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