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3.83 AVERAGE
3.83 AVERAGE
This one is definitely more “pulled from the blog” format but it was still so enjoyable and open and funny and I’m sad I have no more of her books to read. She has immense presence and I love reading her work.
It’s not worth it. This humor is not for me. Maybe if I had read it instead of listening? I got halfway and thought I would finish but it’s now at the point where I’m deeply avoiding listening to any audiobook, which tells me I need to move on.
more repetitive and less funny than her later works, but still that classic entertaining/heartbreaking irby double whammy
dark
emotional
funny
lighthearted
sad
slow-paced
dark
sad
tense
medium-paced
I have never identified with a book so strongly as I have with Samantha Irby’s Meaty. Irby writes with unflinching humor about the death of her mother, her Crohn’s disease, sex, dating, and life as an underpaid, overweight writer. Though on the surface, we may not have much in common, the affiliation I feel is a testament to her ability to connect through radical honesty and vulnerability. Irby is a woman who suffers no fools and doesn’t hesitate to let you know when you’ve crossed her line. “After all that grunting and shoving and groaning, you might STILL have to get your vibrator out while this motherfucker passes out.” Her acerbic wit and colorful language adapt themselves effortlessly no matter the seriousness of her subject matter. A childhood characterized by poverty, loss, and pain are not so much mined for their comedic potential as exorcised by Irby’s indominable spirit.
dark
emotional
medium-paced
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
It felt that there was one topic that is supposed to be uncomfortable to talk about and just kept bringing it up to seem real or funny. It was more just repetitive and made it hard to want to keep listening.
I read this after her most recent books, but I would recommend starting with this book before the others. This book has some background that will make the other books better if you read this first.
The stories in this book are consistently good and although the other, more recent books made me laugh harder at points I think the stories in this book were in many some ways more engaging.
The stories in this book are consistently good and although the other, more recent books made me laugh harder at points I think the stories in this book were in many some ways more engaging.