This book is often wonderfully hilarious, but strange as it may seem, despite the author's use of an intense level of detail about her life, she comes across as remarkably lacking in self-awareness.
An extensive portion of the book explores her experience with depression, yet she seems never to have actually explored the true causes of her depression - she just wallows in her feelings and unhealthy coping mechanisms for pages and pages. The first sentence is "Some people have a legitimate reason to feel depressed, but not me." This exemplifies the shallowness of the author's thought process that is evident throughout the book. She tackles light subjects well, but the heavier material feels hollow and childishly unselfconscious (which doesn't suit the material at all). The entire book is also extremely self-deprecating, which can get uncomfortable at times, as the author seems to have almost no positive things to say about herself (her self-image based on the art is bizarre, to say the least).
The author knows nothing about dog body language or social behaviour, which results in the problems that she relates in such hilarious fashion. She also knows nothing about how bad parenting can seriously affect a person for the rest of their life, and doesn't seem to consider her own parents inadequate despite the plethora of disturbing evidence she provides in the book.
Read this for the lighthearted, silly portions, which are wonderful, but don't be afraid to skip the heavier subject matter, which is dealt with in a very disappointing and even disturbing way.
An extensive portion of the book explores her experience with depression, yet she seems never to have actually explored the true causes of her depression - she just wallows in her feelings and unhealthy coping mechanisms for pages and pages. The first sentence is "Some people have a legitimate reason to feel depressed, but not me." This exemplifies the shallowness of the author's thought process that is evident throughout the book. She tackles light subjects well, but the heavier material feels hollow and childishly unselfconscious (which doesn't suit the material at all). The entire book is also extremely self-deprecating, which can get uncomfortable at times, as the author seems to have almost no positive things to say about herself (her self-image based on the art is bizarre, to say the least).
The author knows nothing about dog body language or social behaviour, which results in the problems that she relates in such hilarious fashion. She also knows nothing about how bad parenting can seriously affect a person for the rest of their life, and doesn't seem to consider her own parents inadequate despite the plethora of disturbing evidence she provides in the book.
Read this for the lighthearted, silly portions, which are wonderful, but don't be afraid to skip the heavier subject matter, which is dealt with in a very disappointing and even disturbing way.
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