Although I did laugh throughout the book, this was definitely not my favorite. Just not as funny as her others. I am on a Notaro marathon over the holidays as a gift to myself (I just discovered this author). It Looked Different on the Model is already so much better!!!

Let me just say this: Notaro has nothing on Jen Lancaster. The book started out ok, with some semi-funny stories, but the disjointed way the chapters read ultimately made me lose interest. The tales started to sound WAY out in left field (as in "too unbelievable to even make me laugh") and some of them I couldn't even keep up with - someone would say something completely random and since I'm not the author, I had no idea what this person was talking about. I didn't even finish the tales because they became too ludicrous.

What a disappointment. I had high hopes for this one, but it felt forced. In fact, I forced myself to finish it. I did laugh out loud a few times, but overall found her comedy lackluster and sometimes offensive. Not a fan.

I thought you would be funnier.

Boring - she's kind of a Gen-Xer Erma Bombeck (and Bombeck actually was kinda funny at times). Maybe it's because I am a skinny girl, but I found her jokes about fatness to fall flat & I really didn't want to hear about chubby ankles. Eh.

The most important thing I learned from this book was that when you order a book from the library it's important to remember the title of the book you requested. That way when they call and you go to pick up your book you won't be insulted when the librarian says to you.."we thought you would be prettier" he was afterall merely reading off the title of the book and not expressing his disappointment.

This was my favorite book of hers that I've read. Just funny stories written by a sarcastic woman. So different than the people I surround myself with!!

Went camping and found it in a washroom, Kind of ironic because it was a piece of crap. Can Laurie Notaro please say "i find myself way more amusing than anyone else does". I did suck it up until 27 pages remained and then decided i would rather stab myself in the eyes then finish what little was left! Whine, whine, whine!

Quite good.

This was a really fun book. I picked it up initially because I enjoyed her first book so much (The Idiot Girls' Action Adventure Club, during the reading of which I burst out laughing while on an airplane and felt like an idiot). This is her fourth book now, I think. Still funny, but there were also a couple vignettes that were a little more serious— same humor, but she tackles more mature issues (like moving her grandmother from the house she's lived in all of Laurie's life, a favorite bar of her youth closing down and thus marking the end of an era that she discovers really ended long ago). It was a refreshing read for me.

I love Laurie's books, I think she's very funny. I really enjoy the fact that most of the stories are a few pages long so I can read one or two before I drop off to sleep since I have very little leisure reading time during my work week. It's light, easy reading and enjoyable humor to me, although sometimes a little too gross for my taste.

I don't find her nearly as funny as Jen Lancaster or Jenny Lawson, but still funny in a different way.

I've always liked Notaro for many reason, not the least of which is that she's from here (the greater Phoenix area) and her references and stories hit (literally) very close to home. Things have been so stressful lately and I really needed the laugh this gave me. (And, really, if anyone ran for office and touted Stupid Jail, they'd totally have my vote.) I did, indeed, laugh out loud a few times -- couldn't help it.

This book is closer to a 2.5. Truthfully, the sense of humor in this book was a bit baffling at times. I question how being "dorky" equates to being crabby, and I found the book to be far more cynical at times than funny. There were a few stories that I quite enjoyed, such as the one being married to a "book man" and or the one about the giant rat, but overall I was expecting dorkiness, and I didn't really find it here. However, I still plan on reading more of Notaro's work as I do like her narrative voice, crankiness and all.

Brutally Funny

Laurie Notaro is like Jennie Lawson's big sister. If you're ok with profanity and frank descriptions of body parts and bodily functions (which, for the record, I totally am), this is laugh-out-loud, cringy fun. So glad I read this at home where they already know I'm nuts instead of in public around judgy strangers!