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The Idiot Girls' ActionAdventure Club True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life Laurie Notaro 9780375760914 Books

This book was a quick read and I took it with me to read on my walk back home after dropping my son off at school in the mornings. As I read through the book I found myself laughing out loud CONSTANTLY-only a few laud laughs escaped during my walk readings since I was afraid of looking crazy on the street...

When I read the story about the "free bread" at the fancy restaurant, I seriously thought I was going to pass out from laughter-I don't know if that's possible-but seriously!

There were some moments of "reflection" when I asked myself, How much of this story is just pure embellishment?-but that only lasted a few seconds-about as long as I could hold back the laughter that was just creeping up inside me, and then all of a sudden I didn't care if I was POSSIBLY being "lied to".

The only downfall for me was that many of the chapters/stories that were ridiculously funny, made some of the others look almost as if they lacked that "punch"(at least for me).

But still, this book is great for those of us looking for a good time while reading and having a bunch of laughs.

I'll be buying more books from this author!! ☺


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The Idiot Girls' ActionAdventure Club True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life Laurie Notaro 9780375760914 Books Reviews

Reading this book made me realise what has been missing from my life. Honest, funny and written at a rattling pace, these are magnificent pieces. Buy now, thank me later
Funny and fearlessly confessional tales of smoking, drinking, brawling, mate-seeking, peeing, defecating, menstruating, undressing, nudity, dentistry and gynecology in Phoenix. While sexuality is prominent, and male partners are mentioned, the relationships and physical appearances described mainly concern females; friends and relatives and children

I am not usually guilty of deconstructionist literary criticism, but in this case could not help thinking of Freud's "Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie" (Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, the one where he explains the oral, anal and genital stage stuff) which is not as funny but may explain some of Notaro's preoccupations, or rather the pleasure we get out of reading about them.

I was also reminded of the Augusten Burroughs of "Dry" and the Helen Fielding of "Bridget Jones's Diary" which may seem faint praise, but isn't really because those are comic geniuses .
Each story funny,or sad or a little bit of both? Just the right mix of humor and pathos to be hugely enjoyable and entertaining. Laurie Notaro could be your best friend -sitting there at the kitchen table telling it like it is. She could be your sister sharing secrets no one else knows. This brand of funny is contagious and you will want to share the laughter and sometimes the honest little jabs of pain... in all humor there lies at least a little truth and I guess that's the funny part...if you don't learn to laugh (even at yourself) you might just have to cry. Loved the book...highly recommend it!
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.

(...)
First book read in 2018 and it’s a dud. I was hoping for something truly funny but this is a collection of drunk tales that were only probably funny because they were drunk? Makes me want to write my own memoir....it would be funnier.
I'm a recent Cochlear Implant recipient and bought the Audio version as "hearing practice." I expected the text to appear along with the narration (my Bible does this.). I had ebook text to look at, but not at the same time. I understood about half of what I was hearing, which was enough because the gags got old pretty quick. The author, if that's who did the reading, doesn't have the best voice for this. A professional reader would have made the experience better - assuming you enjoy getting smashed and doing dumb things.
This book was a quick read and I took it with me to read on my walk back home after dropping my son off at school in the mornings. As I read through the book I found myself laughing out loud CONSTANTLY-only a few laud laughs escaped during my walk readings since I was afraid of looking crazy on the street...

When I read the story about the "free bread" at the fancy restaurant, I seriously thought I was going to pass out from laughter-I don't know if that's possible-but seriously!

There were some moments of "reflection" when I asked myself, How much of this story is just pure embellishment?-but that only lasted a few seconds-about as long as I could hold back the laughter that was just creeping up inside me, and then all of a sudden I didn't care if I was POSSIBLY being "lied to".

The only downfall for me was that many of the chapters/stories that were ridiculously funny, made some of the others look almost as if they lacked that "punch"(at least for me).

But still, this book is great for those of us looking for a good time while reading and having a bunch of laughs.

I'll be buying more books from this author!! ☺