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Title: and the point is...?
Review: This is my first Laurie Notaro book, and I find her brand of humor to be overly forced and petty. I have to agree with some of the other reviews that she seems to try too hard and confuses "snarkiness" with scintilating observations. There are authors who can take a non-event, a total mundanity and turn it into an illuminating sketch of universal human nature. (david sedaris comes to mind). Notaro takes pieces of angry have-not snippets and beats it and chews it up like a bulldog, but it still remains that: a gnawed-up rant of a have-not who's angry because she doesn't have thin calves, or fit into a size 8, and just plain thinks everyone's an idiot.Her observations carry the whiff of insecurity and the sad solace of finding fault and misery in others.
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