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It's Hard Not To Hate You: A Memoir (2011)

by Valerie Frankel(Favorite Author)

3.12 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0312609787 (ISBN13: 9780312609788)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

St. Martin's Press

review 1: This was just a unique and interesting find at the library. I once in a while will stroll over to the memoir section and in this instance happened to find a really funny title. So I pick it up to check it out. It was comical and at times I did literally laugh out loud. I could relate once in a while to some of the instances the author referred to, but like her what can you really do about it. I'd like to take one example though and apply it to my own personal life. For instance she describes a lunch with a friend in which the friend kept checking her phone for messages and such, which I have happen to me on a regular basis when I go out with one particular friend. Like the author I find this to be very rude and insulting. I'd like to say to said friend, "How about next tim... moree I bring a book along to read so we can both be entertained if the other is so boring?" I mean really. Put your darn phone away and interact with the person you went to lunch with for crying out loud. It is common courtesy after all. I'm not sure I'd really recommend the book to anyone since I don't really know someone who would be interested, but maybe readers of Chelsea Handler would find humor here as well.
review 2: I suppose I thought the title was sarcasm -- thinking it was facetious. Nope. It's just about someone's life getting better, once she starts to learn to hate (rather than turn into a chameleon). She's an excellent writer. But it was negative and I had to force myself to finish this book, hoping it would redeem itself in the end (which it did a little, but not enough to recommend to anyone else). less

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