Reviews

Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong

tacotexas's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

4.0

fortunata's review against another edition

4.0

Hillarious, witty, and often explicitly detailed - this book felt exactly like watching an Ali Wong's comedy special. It was interesting learning more about her, in the form of advice and letters written to her two daughters.

While I've been a bit disappointed by some other comedian's books, this one felt natural, like listening to a friend tell you something funny that they experienced. It also includes some great life advice!

Highly recommend listening to the audio book to hear this narrated by Ali herself. Her delivery makes it completely worth it.

laurapoulosky's review against another edition

4.0

Very funny, but also with life lessons about accepting oneself and others, especially one's family. Raunchy, but that doesn't bother me from a woman comic.

anandazhu's review against another edition

3.0

more like 2.5 stars but has its fun moments

kaitlizcolby's review against another edition

funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced

3.5

dbggonz's review against another edition

funny hopeful lighthearted sad fast-paced

3.0

When this book came out I was crazy about Ali Wong but after hearing about her marriage fall apart, this book is cringey at best to read. All her pride about how well their marriage works and how they're different than other couples... well, as a love letter to her girls there's definitely a few lessons to be learned.

readingwithavengeance's review against another edition

**DNF** While I appreciate taking the power back by using words like “pussy” more frequently and without shame, there is a limit to how many times one should hear the word inside of an hour. Also, gross-out stories can be funny and effective once in awhile, but hearing the one about you making out with a guy after vomiting on him right after hearing about your pregnancy stories of picking flakes of skin off your nipples and what you do with your “period juice” is a total turn off. Then to consider these are letters to your daughters? Yes, I understand the concept of satire, but still.

sarahvankuiken's review against another edition

2.0

She made some good points at times, but overall, not for me.

marmoo's review against another edition

4.0

Ali Wong’s blunt humor translates well to this collection of essays—diminished, certainly, with the loss of the physicality and delivery that make her stand-up so impressive, but also elevated by the space to flesh out her personal story.

The conceit of the collection as written for her young daughters to read as adults works better in some places than others. For sharing the intimate details of her family life, it’s a clever hook; for the more general riffs, it came across as more of a gimmick. Even when the formula wore a tad thin, however, Ali Wong was never not a fun hang.

cchang8762's review against another edition

4.0

Audiobook read by her was great.
Loved the other pov in the afterward by her husband Justin Hakuta.