Jennifer R. (chirey) - , reviewed on 9/12/2010 + 117 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 4

I recently saw Sarah Silverman on the Rachael Ray show and Rachael could not stop gushing about the book and how much she enjoyed it. She gave members of the audience copies of the book on the condition they all purchase a book to give away to a friend or family member. She felt it was the perfect gift.
HMMMMM! I honestly think I would have been offended to receive such a book as a gift!
Overall it isn't a bad book but not exactly something I would recommend or spend my money on. Thank God for the library!
It starts out somewhat funny given her history with bedwetting and family stories. But the fun goes out of the book once she starts her "adult" life and her pursuit of comedy, her skit writing, her time on Saturday night live and then her own show. BORING!
She also spends a lot of the book talking about her diary (how stupid it is to keep a diary and the dumb things you write in it. She then proceeds to print page after page of her childhood diary on the pages. It is hard to make out even if you would want to read it. She includes PAGES of phone messages left by her father, something only she finds funny -because I didn't. The photos are interesting to a point. She writes her own foreword, weird....includes a middle word, dumb....and adds the endword...from GOD!?!?
Overall it is a boring book and not that funny. Something to read if you have nothing else.
Maybe it is just me (I don't seem to get jewish humor ~ I have read other jewish books and didn't find them funny) Also I have never watched any of Sarah Silvermans work, however I knew she was crude and had some idea of what to expect. I can't say I don't like her because she is offensive but that helps, it is mainly because she is just not funny.

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