The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life by Laurie Notaro Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life
Book Review: Seriously!
Summary: 1 Stars
This author tries WAY TO HARD to be funny! I did not laugh out loud once. I guess I was too busy rolling my eyes! Not impressed.Book Review: Laugh Out Loud Funny
Summary: 5 Stars
Laurie Notaro is the Queen of Toilet Humor. She makes "doody" fun! In The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club, the chapters entitled "Suckers" and "The Useless black Bra and the Stinkin' Drunk Twelve-Step Program" make me laugh out loud every time I read them. As soon as I read this book, I recognized Laurie Notaro as a kindred spirit and I wanted to be her friend.Book Review: A life worth writing about
Summary: 5 Stars
As the author of Road Trips, Broken Hearts & Other Debris of Growing Up, I am always on the lookout for women who write books I cannot read on airplanes because I am laughing too hard and too uncontrollably. All Notaro's books are like this, and much like with Dennis Hensley's Screening PartyI wanted to immediately become friends with all the characters. As a veteran of many rough nights and bad decisions, this book is a must read!Book Review: So awful I had to post a review
Summary: 1 Stars
If you enjoy below average 4th grade level reading, this book is for you. Does this woman really have a column in a Phoenix newspaper?? I'm dumbfounded. I guess some people are easily amused because this book is embarrassing unfunny. I'm convinced she made up all of these stories and I'm left to wonder, if she went to the trouble to invent this "wild child" persona for herself, couldn't she come up with some funnier fiction? The only thing I can figure is that she has no talent as a writer and caught some incredible lucky break somewhere along the way.
I don't know which is more pathetic, these stories being made up, or these stories being true. One thing is for certain, she somehow thinks it is an achievement to be a crass obnoxious ignoramus that takes an almost evil pleasure at hurting the feelings of strangers.
Why she feels the need to impress upon her readers how blatantly in-your-face hip she is and why I am supposed to care, I have no idea. Why did I read it? My girlfriend left it lying by the toilet. We're still arguing over who hates it more. It's so bad we don't want to pack it for our trip home but we have to because it belongs to the library :(
Book Review: Laugh out loud funny
Summary: 4 Stars
This book not only made me laugh out loud while I was reading it, but I also felt compelled to read the funniest passages outloud to any person around me. (Which tended to occur every 5 minutes or so.) Her stories are hilarious and I recommend it highly.