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April 26,2025
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Definetly hilarious! First Laurie Notaro book I've ever read. was recommended to me by a girl working in a local bookstore. Different style of writing then i'm used to and had a hard time following her writing as it's not in story form, but I'd read her others.
April 26,2025
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I didn't love it at first, but it grew on me. I laughed a few times. It's not that I wish I hadn't read it, but it wasn't as funny as I expected. I've heard from several people that it's more funny if you have been in her shoes at some point. Maybe that was the problem for me. I've never had anything resembling the majority of her situations, so I guess I just didn't get it. The situations I felt I had more in common with were the ones I found the funniest.
April 26,2025
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A very funny quick read. My favorite part was the Stinkin' Drunk Twelve-Step Program.
April 26,2025
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Hilarious short stories!! Great for reading before bed so you can fall asleep with a smile on your face! This book is a collection of wacky, random and hillarious true stories experienced by the author. This book is a quick and light-hearted read that will crack you up!
April 26,2025
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I absolutely love Notaro's books. It's a rare talent to be able to take mundane everyday life tasks and make then larger than life funny.
April 26,2025
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This New York Times Bestseller is positively hilarious. Columnist Lourie Notaro invites readers to experience little 4 page glimpses into her life. Notaro is maddeningly funny, and you’ll feel embarrassed if you read this book around other people (as you’ll be laughing so often). If you’re a fan of Seinfeldian humor you’ll love Notaro.
April 26,2025
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Whenever I go to a used bookstore, I head to the humor shelf first. I don't know why; I'm almost always disappointed. The titles are so funny. The books generally are not. The last book I read was Laurie Notaro's Crossing the Horizon, a hefty piece of historical fiction. One of the things I vowed to try this year was to read more than one book by an author when possible, and I remembered I had this collection of Notaro's humor on my shelf. Her fiction was a winner, but her humor was a bit too much of a tell-all for me. I prefer some things to be left to the imagination. These essays revealed way too much information on her idiosyncracies for me! I did find myself laughing out loud a couple of times but looked over my shoulder as if I'd get in trouble for it when I did.
April 26,2025
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I want to be friends with Laurie Notaro. She's rude, cynical, angry, sarcastic, usually drunk, and completey hilarious. The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club is a collection of short stories taken from Notaro's unbelievably amusing life. One of my favorite stories describes Laurie visiting her grandmother in the hospital and having to explain to "Nana" exactly what Monica Lewinsky did with Bill Clinton.
Ohter books from Notaro that are equally hilarious: I Love Everybody And Other Atrocious Lies, We Thought You Would Be Prettier, and Autobiography of a Fat Bride.
April 26,2025
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This woman deserves a medal for this book. There were moemnts on the subway that I was trying to surpress my laughter, snorting, crying, while still trying to breathe that everyone in the train car was watching me like i'm having an epilieptic fit. It was worth every embarrasing thing they must have been thinking about me, to have read this book. While the chapters in the middle were much funnier than the ones at the end- I still didn't feel like the book went out with a whimper. Worth every penny (and then some) that I paid for it.
April 26,2025
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Laugh out loud hilarious. I was even reading out portions to my husband while we drove along on a recent road trip. Even he was laughing over it.

Nice to see there are other neurotics in the world other than just ourselves who are willing to put it all on the line for us. Shows us how we are all just humans.
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