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Take Your Shirt Off And Cry: A Memoir Of Near-Fame Experiences (2009)

by Nancy Balbirer(Favorite Author)

2.9 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1596914785 (ISBN13: 9781596914780)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Bloomsbury USA

review 1: Take Your Shirt Off and Cry, which details the acting career of its author, has the components of a good memoir, a scathing insider look, and a strong humor writing. Where it falls short, however, is in fully fleshing itself out into any of these genres. From early on, the narrator slightly misses finding a voice that makes her easy to identify with. The chapters have a tendency to go on longer than they feel interesting and the same characters that were not enthralling the first time they appear are no more enjoyable the second or third time around.
review 2: I won't let the fact that since Nancy and I were supposed to be at the same reading (In the Flesh) and therefore I friended her on Facebook and she ignored me get in the way of a neutral review. I don'... moret think. As someone who wanted to be an actress from the time I was a child, and who was a theater major in college, I could have easily gone Nancy's route. But I asked myself if I REALLY wanted to face that kind of rejection. The answer was no. Nancy's was Yes, and boy am I glad I decided to go into writing instead (slightly less rejection). It's not that Nancy isn't good (everyone says so), it's not that she's not pretty and charismatic (check out her readings on YouTube for proof). It's that... well, there are too many actors, not enough parts. Period. So while Nancy's prose is occasionally witty, often straight-forward and charming, for me, the real appeal of the book was just in reading about someone's dreams falling apart for no good reason. I know, I'm sick. less

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