Suzanne
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Chelsea Handler's brand of humor is not for me. Part of it is the Southern California, frat party obnoxiousness that permeates this collection of her life stories. Half the time I finished a chapter thinking she was a lousy person, not a funny one. There are an awful lot of people she doesn't like - possibly everyone on the planet. I couldn't help but wonder why she really gets herself into such stupid situations over and over again. Is it just to write about them (or incorporate them into TV shows)? I did get a little kick out of her preposterous lies when she was a little girl, and out of her being the only one of her friends who actually gained weight on the Atkins' diet. Not so with the episodes involving her night in jail, midgets, getting into a fistfight with teenaged girls, or her weird aversion to redheads.
Best Line:
"I woke up the next morning and stared at my ceiling wondering why Excedrin couldn't just walk out of my bathroom cabinet, hop onto my bed, and triple-axle its way into my mouth." (pg. 95)
Kim
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This collection of stories begins with
Blacklisted, and the author is a nine-year-old having trouble with some mean girls at school, so she fabricates stories of her impending movie stardom to make the kids at school like her, or at the very least, make them stop asking her if she eats Alpo for lunch. In each of the 11 stories we learn a lot about Ms. Handler, and there is nothing better and more entertaining than her completely brash sense of humor. In
Chelsea in Charge, she starts her own babysitting service, and she experiences a DUI charge and jail time in
Prison Break. There are so many parts of each story that are laugh-out-loud funny, none more so than when she agrees to dog sit for a friend, and her boyfriend falls in love with the dog in
Barking Up the Wrong Tree, and in
Re-Gift, well, the title pretty much says it all when Chelsea decides to give a gift to someone she doesn't particularly like. The author's first book is about all of her one-night stands, and sounds like it would be a lot of fun as well.
Best Line:
"She always gets like this when she has a cold, plus with her dog dying and everything, please don't arrest – " He interrupted me as he helped me to my feet. "I thought it was her cat." "It's a hybrid," I mumbled as I looked down at my freshly pedicured toes, wondering why they couldn't all just be the same length."
