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: A very funny collection
Summary: 4 Stars
Laurie Notaro's first book, The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club, includes nearly forty essays that were originally published in the author's humor column in the Arizona Republic. (Notaro's fifth book, An Idiot Girl's Christmas: True Tales from the Top of the Naughty List, was released in November 2005.) A self-described "idiot girl," apparently in her twenties when most of these essays were written, Notaro portrays herself as one of fortune's less favored. She is not, that is, one of those perky-breasted blondes whose clothes always fit right and who's engaged to a doctor, but rather the funny gal pal type, who's more often than not unwashed and underdressed, and more often than she should be under the table. Drinking and smoking apparently consume a good portion of Notaro's days, providing fodder for her humor--though it may be that many of the details of her allegedly misspent adulthood are exaggerated in her writing for comic effect. In either case, hopelessly straight laced suburban mother than I am, tales of nicotine and alcohol abuse tend not so much to amuse as to disturb me.
Happily, there's more to the book than substance abuse. And when Notaro turns from tales of drunkenness to, say, vaginal exams and maxi pads, she's laugh-out-loud funny. In fact, this book set me laughing a good many times, as, for example, when Notaro reprimands Monica Lewinski for the effect she's had on the author's grandmother:
"Now you see what you've done, Monica Lewinski, you stupid, stupid tart, I thought. Because of you, I have to explain to my nana, while she's in a hospital bed with an enlarged gallbladder, what oral sex is. Do you see the damage you've caused? Do you see where your sinful path has led?"
In addition to being funny, the essays included in the collection are strung together well so that they form a coherent narrative.
Now that I've gotten to know Notaro, so to speak, I'm eager to read more from her. I just hope that the next book or two will find her off the bottle and over the butts. Lung cancer and liver damage just aren't that funny.
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Book Review: effin great and funny!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This lady is the best person ever!!
i'm really glad that she's from Arizona!!
i'll be happy to neighbor with her anyday!!
and maybe share my lawn tools too!!
if only that could ever happen.
Notaro is a very talented author and i'm glad my english teacher got me hooked on her books.
Book Review: She is the funniest woman alive
Summary: 5 Stars
I used to read Laurie Notaro's colunm when I was in college at ASU. I moved up to the pacific northwest and found this book. When I read it I was reminded of the good times in college as well as the ones I almost don't remember. I have recomended this to everyone of my friends and have even gotten my mom and my bosses wife to read it and like it. I recommend this and any of her other books to anyone. The stories are short and almost anyone can relate to at least part of it. My favorite is the story of how she wanted to take a quick trip to Costco and the adventure that came about. At least I know I'm not the only one.Book Review: Must Buy!
Summary: 5 Stars
If you appreciate a witty and self deprecating sense of humor this book is a must. The entire series is fantastic but this is by far my favorite in the bunch.Book Review: I'm out of step with the world-
Summary: 3 Stars
I only found this book moderately amusing. I much preferred two of her other books, Autobiography of a Fat Bride and I Love Everybody. In fact, I did not finish this one.