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One of my favorite books of all time. My best friend and I have underlined our favorite parts and shared this book back and forth so much the cover is well loved. Laurie is like the missing piece of our inner circle of two. We feel her pain, have similar family weirdness, and lived in those same WTF moments called life. If you don't know about muffin candles- this book is for you. Buy it. Buy it right now. What are you waiting for? Why are you still reading this trying to decide if I, a total stranger, am telling you the truth about how amazing this book is? If you're not into humorous scenarios that hit home in ways you never thought possible- then this book isn't for you. Now click that button and buy this book. I gave it 5 stars! 5! What else could you possibly want from me? I have nothing left to give.


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I Love Everybody and Other Atrocious Lies True Tales of a Loudmouth Girl Laurie Notaro 9780812969009 Books Reviews

Laurie Notaro has shown up on my recommendations for a few years now. I finally caved and purchased the version of her book....and now I'm sad. I love comedy, irony, sporadic vulgarity and sarcasm - with Chelsea Handler being my go to author when I need a laugh....but this book - not so much.

After reading most of this book (and its embellishments), I'm beginning to picture the author as an unmotivated, borderline-hoarder version of Debbie Downer, herself. Her incessant need to be "funny" everywhere is exhausting - it feels a little (a lot) like participating in a bad relationship. Even her attempts to poke fun at the Disney characters appearing for her nephews birthday were just...sad. Guess it's not my kind of humor.
I bought this book because of the title. I'm from the South, and down here we all love everybody, except for the people we don't love, but we act like we love them anyway. It IS an atrocious lie we love to tell each other.

I Love Everybody starts out with the Elevator People, and that's when I realized Notaro and I are kindred spirits. She obviously stares at people and doesn't bother to look away from them even in their most vulnerable and frailest moments. I like that about her; mostly because it makes me feel a lot better about myself.

At night, I pulled this book out and read it while my husband read the very dry and historically accurate book, 1453. Every time I started giggling, he asked, "What?" And I would say, "What?" Then he would ask, "What?" more emphatically and I would answer, "Nothing," and go on smugly reading.

When I got to the part about passing the kidney stones, though, I laughed so hard the bed shook. This really annoyed my husband, propped up on his pillows reading fine literature and broadening his knowledge of the world. By the time I got to Jerry the tree guy I skipped all the what-what and just went ahead and read it out loud to my husband so he could enjoy it, too. Jerry reminds us very much of our very own Hank the painter.

What I'm trying to say is this book is funny, not because it's Laurie Notaro's life, but because it's everybody's life. So get it, get loud and get ready to laugh at yourself.

Lucy Adams, author of Tuck Your Skirt in Your Panties and Run
This book proved for me an overstatement of the obvious--how subjective (our reaction to) the arts really is. (And the value of a really good manuscript editor.) I have a frustrating inability to stop reading a book I don't like. I have to see it through to its bitter end. Part of the reason for such self-punishment is hope that eventually the book or the author's style will eventually grow on me, or that I will come across a jewel of a line so funny or well-written, or insightful to the point I pump my fist in the air and say, "Yes!!" and so there's a payoff finally. I have not given myself further eyestrain in vain. The other reason is the consumer-competitor/nature lover angle. I paid X amount for a book and darn it, I Will Finish It. I will not let it defeat me, make me a quitter. And I think too of the tree cut down to make the book--yet another squirrel left homeless when winter comes. One less branch from which birds perch, waiting to take a dump on my just-washed car. And so I carry on, heave a sigh of relief when I finally hit the last page.

But don't you hate feeling cheated? I try to keep in mind the old saw, "If you think it's so easy to write a book, why haven't you written one?" I KNOW how hard it is to write a book (yes, I am an editor, but not in the trade industry). But that doesn't mean I have to like a book or say only positive things about it. I try to balance out what I don't like with what I do like. And this book hit both notes, so to speak. There were several very funny bits, but overall the humor throughout struck me as forced. The writing also sagged under the weight of an amazing number of run-on sentences (one had 77(!) words) with stingy punctuation. At times I had to fight the urge to reach out to Vanna White and ask if I could buy not a vowel but punctuation.

I had some favorites bits, though. Like when she gets summoned to the office of her new boss and her allergies are raging a jihad in her head. "My sinuses felt like someone poured the foundation to a house into them." Classic! Who hasn't felt that way when allergies or a really bad cold have you in their grip? It was a funny line. Except that that particular sentence had SEVENTY-SEVEN WORDS and only NINE punctuation points (ten if you count the em dash). I felt myself gasping for air when I finally came to the end of the sentence. And because the sentence was so endless, that truly funny line was drowned by all the verbiage around it. The line about the "rectal expression on his face" was a good one too, but it also is half-swallowed by the truckload of words that came after it.

Another laugh-out-loud moment was when she is talking about eating corn and asserts, "If something leaves my body, I pretty much figure that my relationship with it has reached the end." LOL!! I loved that one, enough I both highlighted it and copied it into a journal I keep of especially poignant or funny lines. Just as I did with her comment comparing the lack of movement of Tori Spelling's implants to a "set of gravestones." Or the "constant presence of a single roll of toilet paper that appears to simply roam about the house on its own." LOL! Again, a genuinely funny line, and visual. But my personal favorite line was her observation about her new editor, Three-Faces-of-Eve Gretchen, and how over time she came to the conclusion that "...there was a high possibility that Gretchen had tenants. In her body." In defense, she was "going to need to develop some of [her] own auxiliary personalities as a psychological defense mechanism." LOL! The problem, again, though, was you had to read through an endless series of run-on sentences to reach the 'prize.'

Unfortunately, there is so much verbiage (coupled with a punctuation drought) throughout that the payoff of genuinely hysterical lines lose some of their punch under the weight of all those words. It gets so a voice in your head starts chanting, "edit! edit!" Take The Sims game part, for instance. That part is like a short story of its very own tucked into the book. It goes on FOREVER and is so over the top that it isn't funny, but silly. And not good-silly. And that was my problem with the book overall. The going-for-the-big-laugh incidents, of which is about three-fourths of the book, seemed forced, desperate attempts to intentionally BE funny instead of the humor coming organically. Take the (endless) scene where she goes to her nephew's (Nicholas) preschool to be a helper for "Harvest Festival" (the more PC term for Halloween). Again, these are PRESCHOOLERS. But she ends up arguing with 5 year olds over the high cost of make-believe apples in their make-believe grocery store. As with other scenes, this one lasted absurd paragraph after absurd paragraph. Not a funny scene but a silly one, one in dire need of editing or outright elimination.

Maybe I am unfairly, unconsciously comparing her writing with that of Jen Lancaster (Jen's first few books, at least). Both Notaro and Lancaster are in the same genre, although I think Notaro was published first? In any case, there is a more organic pace, rhythm to Lancaster's books. Laugh-out-loud moments that come across as more authentic somehow, without all the unnecessary verbiage. I will give Notaro another try, though, as there were parts of the book I DID enjoy. But I will borrow them first. As for recommendations, I put all books into four categories so good I buy the hardcover (or paperback) version AND the version; good enough to buy the version; borrow/download it from my public library or through Prime's free loan program; so bad I stay far away from any other books by the author. I would put I Love Everybody/Notaro in the third category--borrow first. Obviously I am in the minority on Notaro given the glowing reviews she's received and her NY Times status (though being on the NY Times list does not necessarily mean a book is great; it does mean it's moved a lot of units--rather like music and the Billboard chart). And though this book didn't do much for me, I truly congratulate Notaro on her best-selling status. And how wonderful it must have felt not just to have brought the "dynamite" for the bridge of her last columnist job, but to also have annihilated that sucker! )
One of my favorite books of all time. My best friend and I have underlined our favorite parts and shared this book back and forth so much the cover is well loved. Laurie is like the missing piece of our inner circle of two. We feel her pain, have similar family weirdness, and lived in those same WTF moments called life. If you don't know about muffin candles- this book is for you. Buy it. Buy it right now. What are you waiting for? Why are you still reading this trying to decide if I, a total stranger, am telling you the truth about how amazing this book is? If you're not into humorous scenarios that hit home in ways you never thought possible- then this book isn't for you. Now click that button and buy this book. I gave it 5 stars! 5! What else could you possibly want from me? I have nothing left to give.