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I love Jenny Lawson. She's hilarious and makes me feel better about my own messed-up life, that I'm not alone in all this.
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This is (mostly) not a book to be savored in peace. It needs an audience, willing or otherwise, who will listen and laugh along with you when you read random passages aloud. It also needs people who are willing to oblige when you realize you can't just read a paragraph and they'll get it, so you give up, just shove the book into their hands, and order them to read the entire chapter (thanks, dad).
One chapter made me cry, dammit. The one with the vultures and machete, if you must know.
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One chapter made me cry, dammit. The one with the vultures and machete, if you must know.
Also: you ...more
This book is hilarious!
I highly recommend the audio version where JENny (not "JINny") sings the titles to each chapter and does some asides just for the listener. If she doesn't achieve the absolute genius of Beyonce the Giant Metal Chicken with each chapter, who could possibly complain? She's had a life MADE for this sort of thing, and while I often find myself disappointed in "humor" books, I definitely wasn't here.
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Lawson's voice works great in a blog format, but is less engaging in book format. Occasionally funny and certainly heartfelt, but still disappointing.
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Oct 28, 2012
Cathy
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Anna
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