Let's Pretend This Never Happened

7 sound discs (8 hr., 30 min.)

Published April 17, 2012 by Penguin Audio.

ISBN:: 978-1-61176-085-9

(1 review)

Overview: When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it. In the irreverent Let's Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson's long-suffering husband and sweet daughter help her uncover the surprising discovery that the most terribly human moments-the ones we want to pretend never happened-are the very same moments that make us the people we are today. For every intellectual misfit who thought they were the only ones to think the things that Lawson dares to say out loud, this is a poignant and hysterical look at the dark, disturbing, yet wonderful moments of our lives.

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crabbygirl reviewed Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson

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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.