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Look Back In Hunger (2009)

by Jo Brand(Favorite Author)

3.59 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0755355237 (ISBN13: 9780755355235)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Headline Review

review 1: I read through the book along with Jo Brand reading the audiobook.It is a good book, with it being about her life, it is quite personal and tells of her trials and tribulations in relationships and in daily life, of her working at a hospital whilst trying to eek out a comedy career.Listening to the audiobook, sadly Jo seemed very bored reading her own words, nothing was thrilling about it and it just seemed very plain.It is not the most fantastic book out there but neither is it the worst!
review 2: Much as I love Jo Brand and think 'Getting On' is pure brilliance, this 'memoir' isn't worth the effort.Who gives a fig for all this indulgent detail about her upbringing? Well, if you do,I don't. Brand was brutally normal...up to a point -- and did nothing extraord... moreinary -- up to a point -- before she started telling jokes in public.You have to wait for the last 50 pages before you get exposed to a fleeting review of her early stand up career. There's no point to the book aside from meandering through this recall. Add a few pics from the family photo album....and that's all you'll get.Very shallow fare indeed.If I wrote my own story up without the services of an editor and I had to do it by a fast approaching short term deadline ... I could manage something like this -- and I'm not a comic nor am I on the teley. less

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