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3.38 AVERAGE
3.38 AVERAGE
It is a funny, and compelling read - or at least it starts out that way. The first half of thebook is the endearing humor of the author, direct, endearing, odd, and smart. Her growing up years make you cringe adn marvel that she has survived nad thrived. It's tokd with an unsentimental tone. THe second half of the book gets a bit draggy. If you like her, you'll enojy the read.
She is a really interesting person, not a huge fan of her stand up but this book made me laugh quite a bit.
This book will not make you suddenly like Sarah Silverman - if you're not a fan, don't bother.
If you are a fan, however, (and I am) it's an interesting picture of her life (so far) and has some laugh-out-loud bits as well as some more serious stuff that you probably didn't know about her if you're not an obsessive fan.
An easy, quick, good read.
I still adore her.
If you are a fan, however, (and I am) it's an interesting picture of her life (so far) and has some laugh-out-loud bits as well as some more serious stuff that you probably didn't know about her if you're not an obsessive fan.
An easy, quick, good read.
I still adore her.
It's a quick, relatively light read which at times felt a little disjointed and more like a blog w/ unrelated entries than a narrative. My favorite part was her perspective and back story on the controversial joke she told on Conan and how the debate played out. I felt like she purposefully avoided any mention of Jimmy Kimmel in this book though.
When I mentioned how I thought that was weird to Michael, he said: "Oh, this isn't a tell all?" to which I replied, "Well, she does talk a lot about bedwetting..."
"Oh, then it's a tell-some"
When I mentioned how I thought that was weird to Michael, he said: "Oh, this isn't a tell all?" to which I replied, "Well, she does talk a lot about bedwetting..."
"Oh, then it's a tell-some"
I did not love this bok. It was OK, but unless you realy like Silverman, there is not much to recommend it. I realy good memoir generally transcends the subject, you can cull something universal from the experiences of another. I didn't really get that from this. Neither did I get belly laughs, so it didn't quite succeed on that front either. It wouldn't be a waste of an afternoon if you needed something to read on the beach, though. I like Silverman a little more after reading it. Limited recommendation.
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I'm not sure how I feel about Sarah Silverman's comedy--I like it sometimes but I wouldn't leap to describe myself as a fan. That said, her book is probably the best of the bunch of comedian memoirs that came out around the same time (at least, I read them around the same time. I'm including Bossypants and Rachel Dratch's book, both of which I love.) This is a well-told memoir with serious things to say, and the flippant/crude humor style is a lot easier for me to take when it's grounded with that thoughtfulness.