We Thought You Would Be Prettier: True Tales of the Dorkiest Girl Alive
by Laurie Notaro
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Author: Laurie NotaroEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-04-19
ISBN: 0812969014
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: Villard
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Summary: 5 Stars
I had mixed feelings about the first book I read by Laurie Notaro, Autobiography of a Fat Bride. I thought she relied too much on making herself to be the fat, ugly, stupid girl to get laughs, and that it was almost a throwback to the Phyllis Diller-type comediennes of the Sixties. But it was funny enough that I wanted to read more.
In We Thought You Would Be Prettier, Notaro still is the often the butt of her own jokes, but somehow now she seems more Roseanne than Phyllis Diller. Even her bio at the end of the book is good for a laugh. My favorites were the story of the flippy-haired guy at the supermarket and her description of her day at driving school.
I was also pleased to find her website (LaurieNotaro dot com) where there was a very funny piece about her misadventures with the supermarket self-check-out machine. There you can also read the story of how her first book was rejected seventy times before she finally self-published and then she was almost immediately contacted by an agent who sold that book and her unpublished second book. I love that story. And she has a new book coming out in November!
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