A review by reaperreads
How to Talk Dirty and Influence People by Lenny Bruce

5.0

I personally loved this book. I recognized that there were some mixed reviews about it because of the politics-oriented last third of the book, but having read such play-by-play court hearings as the PMRC ordeal, I have become accustomed to this sort of reading. Lenny Bruce is an incredibly articulate, satirical, and often outright hilarious writer. Of course that was his job, but it is one thing to make that stuff sound good on stage and a complete other thing to make hilarity apparent in a book. This is now tied for first place among my favorite autobiographies/memoirs with A Choice of Weapons by Gordon Parks. There is just something about early twentieth century American writers that is beyond artistic--and most definitely beyond most writing I see today on New Release shelves in nearby book stores (of course there are always exceptions, but it's the point of the matter that counts, not the literalness).