Synopses & Reviews
She thought shed have more time. Laurie Notaro figured she had at least a few good years left. But no-its happened. She has officially lost her marbles. From the kid at the pet-food store checkout line whose coif is so bizarre it makes her seethe “Im going to kick his hairs ass!” to the hapless Sears customer-service rep on the receiving end of her Campaign of Terror, no one is safe from Lauries wrath. Her cranky side seems to have eaten the rest of her-inner-thigh Chub Rub and all. And the results are breathtaking.
Her riffs on e-mail spam (“With all of these irresistible offers served up to me on a plate, I WANT A PENIS NOW!!”), eBay (“There should be an eBay wading pool, where you can only bid on Precious Moments figurines and Avon products, that you have to make it through before jumping into the deep end”), and the perils of St. Patricks Day (“When Im driving, the last thing I need is a herd of inebriates darting in and out of traffic like loaded chickens”) are the stuff of legend. And for Laurie, its all true.
Review
"[Notaro] expands her worldview to include the full panoply of life's indignities. The result is screamingly funny." USA Today
Review
"Hilarious...[Notaro] is Dave Barry with ovaries, filing bizare and frequently humiliating reports on Life on the Goofy Side." The Miami Herald
Synopsis
Ask the readers of Laurie Notaro's books and you'll get the same challenge: We dare you to read this book in public. In her most hilarious collection to date, Notaro presents more of her true-to-the-bone stories in the way that only a girl who used up all of her patience in the first week of her life could. Whether she's stuck in a driving school class that begins to resemble a cult recruitment meeting, begging her sister not to get involved with the obsessive phenomenon known as eBay by buying inane movie props, running over an illegal alien she mistakes for a potato with her car, or desperately wanting to kick the ass of a pet food store employee's ridiculous hairstyle, Laurie tells it like it is warm, funny, real. Like all of Notaro's books, it's something that shouldn't be read in public unless you find being taken for a lunatic funny which, of course, Laurie Notaro (who the Miami Herald says may be the funniest writer in the Solar System, including aliens) does. An everywoman with a twist of dork, she proves that even being a girl who isn't as pretty as strangers hoped can be a full-lung capacity, back-of-the-throat laugh exercise.
Synopsis
She thought she'd have more time. Laurie Notaro figured she had at least a few good years left. But no it's happened. She has officially lost her marbles. From the kid at the pet-food store checkout line whose coif is so bizarre it makes her seethe "I'm going to kick his hair's ass!" to the hapless Sears customer-service rep on the receiving end of her Campaign of Terror, no one is safe from Lauries wrath. Her cranky side seems to have eaten the rest of herinner-thigh Chub Rub and all. And the results are breathtaking.
Her riffs on e-mail spam ("With all of these irresistible offers served up to me on a plate, I WANT A PENIS NOW!!"), eBay ("There should be an eBay wading pool, where you can only bid on Precious Moments figurines and Avon products, that you have to make it through before jumping into the deep end"), and the perils of St. Patrick's Day ("When I'm driving, the last thing I need is a herd of inebriates darting in and out of traffic like loaded chickens") are the stuff of legend. And for Laurie, it's all true.