Finally! It took me horrendously long to finish this book (which I only did because I have a serious problem with starting books and not finishing them, yes that's my own issue, I know). It wasn't a terrible book by any means, but it was just okay. There were a few chapters of this book in which I cracked a smile, but I didn't really find any chapters laugh-out-loud funny, which was a bummer.

This is my first Laurie Notaro book I have ever read; not knowing that she wrote more before this. The book was funny. I did laugh out loud at maybe three parts. It's a book of short essays taking you through the life of a complete spazz of a woman and I would definitely read more of her books! It's not something that I could put down easily. It was fun reading from essay to essay finding out what dilemma she would get into next.

Laurie Notaro writes like I talk... she writes like I wish I could write, but when I try to convert my speech to written hilarity, it never comes out right. She has that talent.

Her end-of-the-story punchlines... her "zingers"... are sometimes too obvious or they make me roll my eyes with a "Why oh why didn't you stop a sentence or two before?" the feelings and humor strike me just right 95% of the time and I love that. She is one of a select few authors who make me laugh out loud when I read her stuff.

I could only give this book 2stars because I actually only read a 31-page sample on my iPad. In those 31 pages, I only chuckled once, so I decided that was enough to put it on my "Read" shelf and move on. Tally-ho!

I just love laurie notaro's style of writing....she's very funny and I love how the chapters are broken up into different little stories. This kind of structure makes it very easy to finish a chapter, put the book down for a few days, and then pick it back up without having to remember what just happened in the last chapter you read days earlier. For someone like myself, who only has time to read for a short time each day, this is great. With that being said, this book falls right in line with her previous titles as far as humor and wit....you just can't go wrong with notaro :)

I only read the first say 50 pages and realized... it wasn't something I would like to spend time with... I didn't think the first pages I read where funny or interesting... so I returned it back to the library. I think it maybe my fault, I was really hoping for something either knee slapping hillarious or something really intellectual ... it wasn't either so I moved on. This is purely based on my taste not a reflection of the writer or the book.

Terrible. I'm surprised the Goodreads rating isn't lower. The author made herself the most unlikable person and every story feels forced and exaggerated. The Miami herald touting the author as "the funniest writer in the solar system" on the back cover is probably the funniest thing about this whole book.

This book was not funny at all! Miami Herald boasts that "Laurie Notaro may be the funniest writer in this solar system." I have ready memoirs that are way more amusing than this. I was so bored and found little to no humor in her essays.

Although parts of it were pretty funny she's overly sarcastic to the point of making it unenjoyable to read.

The first of these I finished. I like that she lives in this area, and I enjoy that the style of this book is in chapters. Sometimes I get lost when there are individual chapters though and can't remember where I am or if I finished or what. But now I am done! yea! So mostly I am glad that I am done.

Notaro's 4th book, another essay collection, with a few great gems, and a couple of clunkers, but all very readable. Since I haven't read all of her books, I have to say that her maturation from her first book to this one is obvious mostly in her subject matter. She is like an early version of Jen Lancaster. Enjoyed it, and will probably read more of her books when I need something light and silly.

The book banks on it's ability to amuse but if you look closely at the end of each sentence there is a tiny image of Porky Pig saying "That's all folks!"