Title: Don't leave this out for your mother to find.
Review: I purchased this book after seeing the author interviewed by David Letterman. She seemed extremely funny and piqued my interest in the book, which I suppose is the point of the TV talk-show circuit. However, her writing style is overly simplistic, and she relies too much on metaphoric pop-culture references that elude the somewhat older reader (I'm in my mid-thirties). Additionally, her language is exceedingly crude. I do not think I am too much of a prude, but I was offended by her vernacular and embarrassed to read most passages aloud to my husband. She could have told her tale better without the vulgarities. I knew going in that this is a story of a seedy sort of life, but the writing was frankly distracting from what could have been quite a good book.
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