Monday, January 7, 2013
Let's Pretend This Never Happened, a Mostly True Memoir
This mostly absurd and irritating memoir by Jenny Lawson, happens to be a total waste of time. I can appreciate irreverence & the bizarre, but this incredulous memoir lowers the bar somewhere below potty humor & outlandish bigotry. Wait, you say I'm envious of her wit - bullshit - oops, I mean malarky. I should have heeded Lawson's own early warning, "If you're easily grossed out, I recommend skipping this entire section - Or maybe getting another book that's less disturbing than this one." What a fool, I didn't take her advice. I didn't find her amusing, only confusing if not problematic: "Like, did you know that Angelina Jolie hates Jewish people? True story. {Editor's note: Angelina Jolie does not hate Jewish people at all, and this is a total fabrication." Still, I forged on, only to seriously question if Lawson is anti-Semetic. She recalls her grandmother describing Hitler "as a sad little man who probably didn't get hugged enough." Enough already, I usually read at least 100 pages before I set a book aside. Don't be a fool, forget this rule, forget this "mostly true memoir." I can't fathom how this memoir ever happened to be published.
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