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3.38 AVERAGE
3.38 AVERAGE
This book is a compilation of essays and anecdotes about her childhood and career. Her stories about her dad are really sweet, I loved the transcribed voice messages. She does seem to go through every time she has put her foot in her mouth and give explanations and apologies. I think she's still mad at Guy Aoki though, that one took up some space.
I find it difficult to describe this book. It's a memoir where very little of note happens. It's a series of comedic essays which are sometimes a little too serious to be entirely funny. It serves to reveal Silverman as a more complex person than is demonstrated by her comedic persona. But that's not all that surprising: I expected her to be more complex.
And the book is incredibly self-aware and peppered with emails between Silverman and her editors and descriptions of the writing process.
I'm glad I listened to it because I'm not sure it would have been as enjoyable to read it. I think that would have been like reading a transcript of someone's stand-up routine.
And the book is incredibly self-aware and peppered with emails between Silverman and her editors and descriptions of the writing process.
I'm glad I listened to it because I'm not sure it would have been as enjoyable to read it. I think that would have been like reading a transcript of someone's stand-up routine.
Although hilarious in parts, it sort of felt like Silverman didn't really want to write a book and was rushing to finish it for her editor. Her childhood stories endeared her to me, but even more so had me missing Tina Fey and Mindy Kaling and their books.
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Hilarious! If you love Sarah, you'll love this book. She puts it all out there. Funny look at her as child and rising to stardom. Who knew!
Sarah Silverman is very good comic. She also comes off as very likeable. She is not, however, a good writer. Or perhaps I should say she is not a good book writer because parts of this book are laugh out loud funny, endearing, interesting and even poignant. As a book however, it is uneven in every conceivable way – tone, style, voice, pacing …
However, if you aren’t expecting a literary classic (and why would you be) or a soul baring in-depth autobiography, then I recommend it for the laughs, the behind the scenes views of Saturday Night Live and The Sarah Silverman Show and of course, for the name dropping.
However, if you aren’t expecting a literary classic (and why would you be) or a soul baring in-depth autobiography, then I recommend it for the laughs, the behind the scenes views of Saturday Night Live and The Sarah Silverman Show and of course, for the name dropping.
I've been reading a lot of funny memoirs lately, but Silverman takes the cake. It seems wrong to describe her humor as "subtle" since she's so over the top, but that's exactly what I'd say about this book. Instead of showcasing the joke in each paragraph, Silverman tucks one into each sentence so you read over it and are laughing before you realize what the joke was. When you read over the sentence, you're cracking up for a good five minutes before you can continue on. It's a straight-forward memoir, starting, appropriately, with her childhood problem of wetting the bed and continuing on to her teenage problem of wetting the bed. We're right along with her as she breaks into comedy, still occasionally wetting the bed.