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Title: Autobiography of a Fat Bride : True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood by Laurie Notaro ISBN: 0-375-76092-X Publisher: Villard Pub. Date: 08 July, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.26 (27 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Makes you laugh so hard you'll snort
Comment: L. Notaro writes for us. Us women who just don't care about shaving our legs everyday, keeping our houses spotless and as long as the pets are fed and we eat at least decent one meal a day in between the candy bars and junk food we'll survive just fine, thank you. I absolutely adored her first book and started this one before I was out of the parking lot of the bookstore. Thank goodness I wasn't driving or it would have been really difficult to turn the pages and remember to signal.
From "mice" to weird neighbors, Ms. Noaro notices and appreciates the truly inane things that make life really interesting and worthwhile. She's the funniest writer I've ever read and I hope she has many more books to come.
Proving there really is someone out there who will love us just the way we are and then actually marry us turns into very
stories.
You know those things you talk about ONLY to your best women friends? L. Notaro writes about those things with wit, humor and a wry sense of good-naturedness about herself as well.
Rating: 3
Summary: Phyllis Diller Again?
Comment: Laurie Notaro has a way of coming up with the perfect phrase. You get an immediate, and often graphic, image of just what she is describing. So it's a shame that she can't take this talent and an obvious sense of humor to do something other than making herself out to be a pathetic, fat, ugly woman with a bad temper.
From the photo on the back and inside the back cover, it does not appear that Notaro is either ugly or fat. And since she has an evidently devoted new husband, she probably isn't the unloveable wretch she describes in Autobiography of a Fat Bride. So this whole schtick is apparently just a device she uses for laughs. Well, it wears thin fast. This is Phyllis Diller recycled and it wasn't that funny back then.
The only person who comes out of this book only mildly scathed is her husband, who is a two-dimensional nobody. The poor guy doesn't even get a name. He goes from "boyfriend" to "groom" to "husband." Jeez, even if you don't want to use his real name, make something up, Laurie, I mean, you are a writer.
I read this book knowing that as a baby boomer, I am not the intended audience, but it seemed to me that the subjects of dating, family, getting married, etc. were fairly common, and universal enough so that you didn't have to be an Idiot Girl to enjoy Autobiography. Wrong.
Rating: 5
Summary: This book sounds familiar
Comment: This is a well-written and wonderfully hilarious look at Laurie Notaro's experiences with adulthood, marriage, and children. From finding a good man and marrying him before he gets away, to her insecurities about her physical appearance, this book will keep you rolling with her clever wit and cut-to-the bone reality of middle-aged life. Everything about this book reminds me of a very special woman who, regrettably, is no longer in my life. If I didn't know better, I would have thought she had written it herself.
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Title: The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club : True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life by Laurie Notaro ISBN: 0375760911 Publisher: Villard Pub. Date: 02 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Day I Turned Uncool : Confessions of a Reluctant Grown-up by Dan Zevin ISBN: 0812967224 Publisher: Villard Pub. Date: 11 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Why I'm Like This : True Stories by Cynthia Kaplan ISBN: 0688178502 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 09 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: why I'm like this : True Stories by Cynthia Kaplan ISBN: 006051261X Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 03 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Running with Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs ISBN: 031242227X Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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