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A review by marieshan4321
The Fran Lebowitz Reader by Fran Lebowitz
funny
informative
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
4.0
Fran is absolutely hilarious and just oozes intelligence and wit. I'm so glad i found out about her work through Martin Scorsece's Pretend It's a City. However, while I enjoyed each piece in isolation, I found the collection a little repetitive after a while. Some essays I found absolutely brilliant and her dry sarcasm and wit defintely made me laugh a lot.
As a whole, each essay makes way more sense consumed as part of a magazine or newspaper column where you get one essay per week...which was the way its intend to be read so maybe it was my fault for reading it all at once.
Still, I would definitely recommend this alongside a scout through her talks that are available on YouTube. Fran is the grumpy badass icon we should all aspire to be at 70 something :)
As a whole, each essay makes way more sense consumed as part of a magazine or newspaper column where you get one essay per week...which was the way its intend to be read so maybe it was my fault for reading it all at once.
Still, I would definitely recommend this alongside a scout through her talks that are available on YouTube. Fran is the grumpy badass icon we should all aspire to be at 70 something :)