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How To Get Divorced By 30: My Misguided Attempt At A Starter Marriage (2010)

by Sascha Rothchild(Favorite Author)

3.22 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0452295998 (ISBN13: 9780452295995)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Plume

review 1: I read this book on a four hour bus trip. It's that kind of book...good enough for a bus trip or an airport or a wet, rainy afternoon but hardly competition for your attention at any other time. That comment, however, is not to sell the book short. It's funny in a slapstick, all-too-obvious kind of way. How to get divorced by 30? Don't even think about why you're getting married...just marry the first half-human person that comes along because, well, you always assumed you would get married one day and your Dad promised you a down payment on your first condo when you did. That's probably what enabled Rothchild to overlook the fact that the guy she was marrying was also perpetually stoned (yes, I dated that guy in my twenties too...but I didn't marry him!) The only t... morehing that isn't funny...the number of people who actually do get married for the kinds of reasons Rothchild did. And no, she didn't make any money on the condo. Because the down payment was a joint wedding gift to both of them, she actually lost out in the divorce (but he came out of it pretty good).
review 2: As another person who got divorced by 30, I was powerless when I saw this at the library. It was by turns funny and painful to read. Some of the territory Rothchild assays here was quite familiar to me. It's not an unusual story, I suppose, though the fact that she lived in LA and was seriously OCD and obsessed with her weight added a little bit of otherness to the story. I whooshed through it in an evening and enjoyed it for the most part. less

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