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    <body><![CDATA[at first, i was afraid this book was all margaret cho-esque, as in, based solely on the humor of mom's inability to speak english. and it started out that way. but then, it got better. and it actually got funnier. it was witty and humorous but also something deeper than that. and of course, as a kor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3756693">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Makes me wish I had written this book, except I'm nowhere near as funny and talented as the author.  Growing up Asian American, I've seen all sorts of embarrassing shit I've tried to bury in my past.  Annie Choi brings that stuff front and center.  Makes me think my family was way normal by comparis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3625505">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is hilarious! I picked it up at the bookstore and had to buy it then and there. I read passages to anyone who will listen, and to anyone who can tolerate the interruptions of my laughter and wheezing.<br/><br/>This book is a collection of stories and anecdotes about being Korean-American...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6747185">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Essays about Annie Choi's life growing up in a loving buy dysfunctional Korean American family. This is not a bad book. As memoirs go, it isn't a great one either. <br/><br/>The funny  parts are not as funny as Shalom Auslander's Foreskin's Lament. The quality and selection of the funny/neurotic p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75122037">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was actually an extremely fun book to read--Choi tells several stories about growing up with her (Korean) family, especially her mother, in a comic and engaging way. If you happen to be like me, and grew up watching the early comedy of Margaret Cho (WHAT IS THIS ASS-MASTER? DOES IT MASTER THE A...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24961820">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Annie Choi is hysterical.  And I think her mother just got on her last nerve.  But you would feel the same way if she gave away one of your stuffed animals every time one of your cousins or distant relations came to visit.  So unfair!  Happy Birthday or Whatever is Annie Choi’s collection of vigne...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43108248">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really loved this book! The author finds humor in everyday life (although, I have to say, her everyday life is quite extraordinary) and I felt like I was by her side living through some of the hilarious situations as she wrote them. Anne goes back from childhood and traces her steps growing up in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77152470">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I always love it when I meet a family as crazy, infuriating and fantastic as my own. :)<br/><br/>Despite coming from as different a heritage as possible (French-German-Czech as opposed to Annie's Korean) I really related to Annie here. My mom also wanted the model straight A student star athlete f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36643785">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked up this book by Annie Choi on another of my quickies at the airport.<br/>Not much time…just pick up what grabs your attention kind of deal.<br/>I wasn’t looking for anything in particular from this book…I was more after an easy, fun read than on a mission to discover the meaning of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21101208">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Annie Choi's blog; love it. Love her funny voice and unique perspective on things. So I thought I'd really, really love this memoir.<br/><br/>Well...it was okay, I guess. Good for a few laughs here and there. There was just too much emotional distance for me to really connect with it, thoug...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12426858">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I know I’ve been talking about Annie Choi’s incredibly funny memoir as the ideal book for the Asian-American audience that loved YELL-OH GIRLS and THE DIM SUM OF ALL THINGS.  But while I still believe that it’s great for Asian American young women, I also think that this is the perfect book fo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8725056">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've looked at this book about three times in the stores...but have yet to buy it. (Only because I know that I should be spending reading time doing &quot;school stuff,&quot; but that is SOOOO less fun than pleasure reading! :)<br/><br/>It's another memoir...I am thinking along the lines of the &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5629929">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[3.5, leaning toward 4. A fast and fun read--I really liked her hyperbolic sense of humor and extended metaphors, and there's a particular moment in the book that hit a little close to home and I actually cried for. While I'm a little annoyed at how Asian-American memoirs/stories in general tend to r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77064758">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't know whether Annie Choi does stand-up or not, but she so could.  I can actually hear her Korean mother in my head as I read the funny (but horrible) accounts of life in a Korean-American household.  While the particulars are specific to Ms. Choi's Korean-American status, they &quot;big pictu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55517817">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There's nothing wrong with this book, which is a collection of aurobiographical stories about growing up as a first-generation Korean in the U.S. There also isn't much to make the book exceptional. With the emphasis on the family's purportedly hilarious yet incessant sniping and bickering, it is som...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5543381">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just finished reading the memoir &quot;Happy Birthday or Whatever.&quot; It was really good; very humorous, but revealing as well. It's by a young woman--I think it's Margaret Choi-- whose parents are Korean immigrants. So she explains, quite humorously but also there is some pathos in there, abou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17616878">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an auto-biographical funny book about life in a family where the parents are immigrants (from Korea in this story) and the kids are American. I had a lot of friends like that in high school, and the book sounded funny. It was and it was a fast, enjoyable read. Warning: if you are offended b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56225902">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wonderful book. Rather bittersweet, as well, but Choi manages to describe a lot of the more difficult aspects of Asian-American families with a hilarious, very strong voice that's uniquely hers. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Anyone, especially female, who grew up with an Asian and/or Pacific Islander mother should read this book.  Having a Filipino mother, I know what it's like to feel like I'm trapped in an Amy Tan novel.  It's a book of memoirs of her life, totally and completely hysterical and just a pleasure to read...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1100945">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[annie choi's memoir of growing up in a korean family has its moments of hilarity, but not often enough.  i found myself a little bored half way through, but i felt the last few essays were hilarious.]]></body>
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