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Old 06-28-2009, 08:06 PM   #2118
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I love Notaro's books. Don't you think the sarcastic impressions of women are directed mainly at herself and her close friends? I find her hilarious ... and feel like we are living parallel lives! We both have that sort of odd view of looking at the world through clown colored glasses.
I really liked Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death but found this first book of hers was not as funny. A lot of it probably has to be that she is closer to my age in the Tantrum and so I found the first one kind of juvenile - lots of getting hammered, puking etc. Not so funny to me anymore. In general though I still find her a pale imitation of Jen Lancaster who I think has a sharper wit particularly in her first one, Bitter is the New Black.

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