Notaro is outrageously funny and honest in this book. It's a collection of stories/experiences that will make you laugh so hard! Seriously, you can't read this book on a plane or train, otherwise people will think you are being strange, or your head will explode trying NOT to laugh. Great, quick read.

Got about 15% of the way and had to stop. Not interesting. Not really funny. Annoying.

I have an OCD thing where I always finish a book I've started, no matter how much I dislike it. I've suffered through some pure trash, trudging through while thanking God I'm a wicked fast reader. Well, I finally met my match with this book. I dislike this lady's writing style so much I just can't do it. Wow, what a horrible book!

I bought this several years ago (I think Jory recommended it) and didn't find it as funny as I'm finding it now... she has a great turn of phrase. I wish the stories were longer, though-- I feel like I'm reading the archives of someone's blog, which is fine, it's just a little exhausting. The stories are usually two or three and a half pages.

And honestly, I find a lot of the stuff kind of repulsive... I think honesty is funny and refreshing, but I really don't need to read about her zits or her boogers or her dogs eating poop. It's gross. I wish she wouldn't, because the rest of it is so hilarious. Nothing seems to gross her out or be off-limits, which may appeal to some people but it doesn't really to me.

It reminds me in quite a few ways of Hypocrite In A Pouffy White Dress by Susan Jane Gilman, but I have to say I like Hypocrite way better. Gilman covers the same hilarious territory and without Notaro's defiant sort of repulsiveness. I feel like Gilman is plenty honest without putting anyone off, while Notaro seems to think yuckiness=funny. I also think I identify a lot more with Gilman's storytelling style and experiences than I do with Notaro's.

I tried to enjoy the two Laurie Notaro books that I've read as so many people find her vignette style story telling humorous. I just don't see what's funny about her wishing for the day that her husband is diagnosed with Alzheimer's, or her incessant talk about "tootsie roll" dog poop, or her description of her body odor, among other things. Pass!

Laurie Notaro has quickly jumped to the top of my favorite peoples, let alone authors, list! Sarcastic honesty is often the only way to survive the life we have been dealt and Laurie is a Primetime Special of it! If you think you're life is pathetic, this will quickly make you realize your doing just fine. A must read!

This is the funniest book I have ever read in my life. Every single chapter had me actually laughing out loud. The author is brilliant, sarcastic, a little inappropriate, & refreshingly honest. This is the 2nd time I've read it (the first being 10 years ago) and I'd laugh just as hard reading it a 3rd time. I can't wait to read her other books.

I read this b/c a gal who works with my husband told him I should read it. I don't really know why; the author definitely has an interesting style for writing, but I didn't really get the point of the book?

what can I say? I started reading Laurie Notaro's books out of order, but with Laurie, it doesn't really matter because they are all funny. This, her 2nd book, is no exception. Easy reading, took me less than 24 hours and lifted my mood. Thanks, Laurie, for helping me keep my sanity and reminding me that there are others out there like me.

i thoroughly enjoy reading about people who are bigger disasters than i am... it is heartening. especially if they are published authors, which gives me hope. although this book did make me realize that not much has happened to me in my twenty five years on earth, and i haven't got anywhere half the bad dating stories that ms notaro has. note to self: be crazier/dumber.

A collection of stories that beings with a history of Notaro's love life and ends with paranoia of getting older and turning 34, Autobiography takes a bit getting used to. However, once you acclimate to Notaro's voice, the book is an enjoyable, funny, juvenile (and sometimes crass) telling of one woman's attempts to avoid complete adulthood.

I'm not sure why I pick up these self deprecating memoirs where the author treats fat as the worst possible fate. Maybe this is a popular trend? Other than that I like the writing style. The book is written in short essays, chronicling her "transition from all-night partyer and bar-stool regular to mortgagee with plumbing problems and no air-conditioning." (read full review here)