Eden loaned me this book, curious as to what my opinion would be. She gave it a lukewarm reveiw on Amazon, which I actually thought was a little too kind.

There were some funny moments…but for me, these usually amounted to a chuckle rather than laugh-out-loud funny. I found Notaro’s prose frequently wandering about, making me wish she’d just get to the point already. I skimmed a lot. I agree with Eden’s assessments that this book needed better editing and that much of it read like blog posts. Well written blog posts, but blog posts nonetheless.

Most of the time, I felt like Notaro was trying too hard to be funny and witty. She’s obviously read a lot of David Sedaris and Dave Barry, but unfortunately her efforts to emulate their style came off as forced to me.

Overall assessment? Meh. I was more bored than amused.