crabbygirl reviewed Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
Review of "Let's Pretend This Never Happened" on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
at first I found this audiobook laugh out loud funny. but things started to turn on me when victor - the author's boyfriend and root of many funny stories - became her husband. that's when he stopped being a 'character' and became a real person for me. and, to put it simply: it's not nice/fair/financially equitable to use a real person - someone who didn't ask for fame or attention - as a prop in your book/blog/schtick.
if, as I've surmised, the author is a popular blog writer-turned-author, then this is likely her one and only book. blogs get old, and their older content gets buried in the new content. a blog can even be anonymous. but a book is forever and it's her name (and photo) on the cover. all other real people mentioned in the book are forced to come along for the ride. that sort of thing …
at first I found this audiobook laugh out loud funny. but things started to turn on me when victor - the author's boyfriend and root of many funny stories - became her husband. that's when he stopped being a 'character' and became a real person for me. and, to put it simply: it's not nice/fair/financially equitable to use a real person - someone who didn't ask for fame or attention - as a prop in your book/blog/schtick.
if, as I've surmised, the author is a popular blog writer-turned-author, then this is likely her one and only book. blogs get old, and their older content gets buried in the new content. a blog can even be anonymous. but a book is forever and it's her name (and photo) on the cover. all other real people mentioned in the book are forced to come along for the ride. that sort of thing makes me queasy.
also, she uses the word vagina a lot. a little bit is funny, but after the 57th time, it feels like an easy laugh (except that it's no longer funny). ironically, I was already annoyed about her overuse of this word and then her epilogue was a huge rant about how someone might take offense at her use of 'my vagina' (could she hear me complaining? that was freaky) then in her defense of 'my vagina', she uses the word another 107 times. in one chapter.