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Indlæser... Quietly Hostile: Essaysaf Samantha Irby
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Still love reading about Irby farting and shidding. She's hilarious and her books always make me literally laugh out loud. ( ) (52) Not my thing. A collection of umm .. I guess essays is a kind term. Really just self-indulgent riffs on whatever happens to roll through the author's mind. Like expounding on sex in the city episodes, tips for being a good party guest, ways to talk to teenagers, taking a dump in public - you get the drift. Inane, repetitive, self-deprecating, juvenile - occasionally funny, but mostly cringe-worthy. Meaning I cringe for the author who puts herself out there. I mean all the way out there. I would hope she actually does more than lounge around watching Netflix and eating snack food all day. She writes about her slovenly life for which she seems alternatively horrified of and equally ready to defend and show-off. I guess there is only so many times you can be reminded that a person is low-class before you devalue what they are saying and feel disgust for them. While I love sharp and honest humor, I require more subtlety to truly be amused. I had to push myself to finish though did occasionally laugh. I would definitely not read her other books despite our similarities in age. Too crude and pathetic for me. I purposely read to escape the banal musings of everyday drudgery, not to roll around in them. Not my favorite of hers, and I've read all 4. I don't listen to the Dave Matthews Band, so that chapter was a bust. I' m not a fan of Sex and the City, so that chapter was also a bust. But I'm happy for Samantha that she is a writer on that show. A little bit more poop stories than I was comfortable with, but that's on me. I will still read anything she writes, because she is hilarious. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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"Beloved writer Samantha Irby has returned to the printed page for her much-anticipated, sidesplitting fourth book following her 2020 breakout, Wow, no thank you, a Vintage Books Original. The success of Irby's career has taken her to new heights. She fields calls with job offers from Hollywood and walks the red carpet with the iconic ladies of Sex and the City. Finally, she has made it. But, behind all that new-found glam, Irby is just trying to keep her life together as she always had. Her teeth are poisoning her from inside her mouth, and her diarrhea is back. She gets turned away from a restaurant for wearing ugly clothes, she goes to therapy and tries out Lexapro, gets healed with Reiki, explores the power of crystals, and becomes addicted to QVC. Making light of herself as she takes us on an outrageously funny tour of all the details that make up a true portrait of her life, Irby is once again the relatable, uproarious tonic we all need"-- No library descriptions found. |
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