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I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies): True Tales of a Loudmouth Girl

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Here are more scathingly funny tales from the wild side! Laurie Notaro survived the debauched ride of her twenties and the bumpy road to matrimony. Now she’s ready to take on the thirtysomething years . . . and almost middle age has never been more hilarious.

Laurie is married, mortgaged, and now—miraculously—employed in the corporate world, discovering that bosses come in all shapes, sizes, and degrees of mental stability. After maxing out her last good credit card at Banana Republic, she’s dressed for success and ready to face the jungle: surviving feral, six-foot-plus Gretchen (“Three Thousand Faces of Eve”) before battling the overbearing, overstuffed (in way-too-small pants) new mom Suzzi, who ruthlessly cancels Laurie’s newspaper column and learns that payback can be a bitch. Laurie also explores the backstabbing world of preschoolers at a Halloween party, the X-rated madness of a family trip to Disneyland, and the pressure from her QVC-addicted mother and the rest of the world to reproduce. But while losing more friends to babies than to booze, she realizes there’s a plus side: at least for a couple of months she gets to be the thinner friend.

I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies) is Laurie Notaro at her deliciously quirky best. Can a woman prone to what her loved ones might term “meltdowns” (she considers them “Opportunities to Enlighten”) put a smile on her face and love everybody? Take a guess.

228 pages, Paperback

First published June 8,2004

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228 pages, Paperback
Published
June 8, 2004 by Random House Publishing Group
ISBN
9780812969009
ASIN
0812969006
Language
English

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BlackCherryBoy
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April 26,2025
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I picked this book up at the recommendation of a coworker. She raved about "the Sims story."

I'll grant you, the Sims story was funny enough, but I could not make it through this book. It is self-congratulatory and written by someone who knows they are, indeed, funny. Every sentence is rambling and convoluted, trying to be individually funny rather than building to a funny point.

The writing style was just aggravating and I quit pretty early.
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Qwartney
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April 26,2025
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I was looking for a quick and funny read and picked up this book. It was definitely a really quick read! Based on the reviews I was really anticipating something of a higher caliber. Most of the stories in the book are just sorta blah for me personally and brought me little or no amusement at all. Some did make me laugh, but overall I didn't think the collection was as funny as I was hoping it to be.
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Dullboy
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April 26,2025
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LOVED IT! Hilarious, brilliant, ridiculous. Fantastic.
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AsianG
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April 26,2025
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"Did you laugh? Did you laugh once?"
"No."

Hard on the head, cringeful, unfunny. It might be about time for me to stop reading Laurie Notaro books expecting to enjoy them. Because, uh, it's not gonna happen.
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muryisweebin
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April 26,2025
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I've said it before...I love Laurie Notaro! It's been a tough week and I wanted to read something uplifting. I knew that I could count on Notaro to pull though and make me laugh. In particular, I liked the "I Love Everybody" section, which included a very relatable trip to Cost-Co. There was also a great section on dealing with the abandonment of friends who have decided to have children. I feel her pain! I probably laughed the most on the section where she explains her grandmother's fascination with the Lifetime network. I also ended up sharing part of the book with my mom. She is basically in her last days and the book made her laugh. This was huge for me.
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April 26,2025
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Baaaaaaad. I struggled to read much of this book at all; the author is extremely rude and self-deprecating to a point that I feel like it’s just to make her “observations” on others “ok.” Well, it’s not ok. Several jokes about people’s bodies and (more shockingly) about special needs folks. If you’re looking for a super-ableist read, I guess you found it in this book.
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Tryfaina
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April 26,2025
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I remember reading this book, a couple of times before, but since I had neglected to mark it down on Goodreads, I had to read it again.

This is one of the funniest books I have ever read! Rarely, if ever, do I literally LOL at a book... this one had me snickering, chuckling, and burst-out-laughing more times than I can count. I read one particular passage to my mom and husband and could barely get through it because I was laughing so hard.

Which passage?

The chapter "Disneyland: A Tragedy in Four Acts." In case you weren't amused by the part were Goofy flipped the bird at the Mad Hatter, or the part where Eeyore feels up her mom, then just wait until the part about her riding the kiddie acorn-coaster. The ridiculousness of it, and the relatableness of it (e.g. a 30-something childless woman who everyone assumes is "special") instantly made this book, and this author, one of my favorites!
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April 26,2025
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I couldn't finish this book. Laurie Notaro thinks she is Jennifer Weiner. The beginning scene about how she had to pee, she was sure of the results, and it was going to be so life-changing - and it was just a drug test because she got a job. Welcome to adulthood. It wasn't funny, it was tacky.

I didn't get through the first 40 pages, because already the character came across as selfish, immature, and spoiled. I didn't want to read any more of Notaro thinking she was clever with her attempt at being amusing.
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