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The Last Black Unicorn

Tiffany Haddish

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Jun 21, 2018 Jessica rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: kindle, memoir

I enjoyed the storytelling style of The Last Black Unicorn, but the chapter on dating someone with a disability ruined this book for me. That chapter was so unforgivably bad with the way she described his physical disability as something horrific, wrote all of his lines to mimic his speech impediment, and talked about how the relationship could never work because she could never be seen in public with him or allow her friends to meet him. She never took a critical look back at the way she treate ...more

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May 16, 2018 Michelle rated it liked it

Fun but not as funny as I’d hoped

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Feb 02, 2020 Sarah rated it liked it · review of another edition

There's quite a lot about Tiffany Haddish that I respect, both because she's hilarious and because she's overcome a lot. I listened to this book and while there were some parts that I wanted to be a bit better or more sensitive, her story about taking Will and Jada Pinkett-Smith on a Groupon swamp tour in Louisiana, for example, is one of the funniest things I've ever heard. I think this book is probably much better on audio because her inflection is so good, and so I'd recommend people listen t ...more

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