My Point...And I Do Have One

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Summary: Read this book with an open heart for a hearty laugh!
Review: Sad to say, I have never been a fan of Ellen (mainly because I have not watched any of her shows before-how could I?!)However, after I bought her book out of curiosity at a book store a year back, I began to fall in love with her humour, her personality, and have been looking forward to watching her shows! Her humour is widely sprinkled throughout her book- I read it once on a bus alone and I had to really control my laughter! Take my words for it....read her book with an open heart and you will be in for a good laugh!

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Summary: If ONLY there were LESS than a one star rating!
Review: A true fan of her TV show, I was incredibly disappointed (an understatement) in this book. There is ONE joke; it's on page 41. This, I remember, after reading the book 3 months ago (which I never finished: something that hasn't happened to me since 'Moby Dick'). No matter how grueling, I always finish. This book is a rambling, definitely NOT funny (try Mark Salzman's Lost in Place or Seinfeld or Reiser -- even Fran Lebowitz) piece that you or I could have written in 6th grade. My Point, and I Do Have One... should have been retitled, "My Pointless Thoughts, and there are many." I simply couldn't believe I didn't laugh ONCE at this (Fannie Flagg's Daisy Faye and the Miracle Man is hilarious laugh-until-you-cry); I'm NOT that hard to please. Ellen's subtle and dry witticisms on the show are absent here. There is nothing of substance nor wit. I cannot imagine what possessed this woman to write this book; I cannot imagine her publishers' encouraging her. What a little name recognition can do! "Write it and they will come." The only thing that baffles me more are the reviews here that called this book hilarious. This book is the testimonial equivalent to the 'fart joke' -- minus the joke.

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Summary: Getting teeth pulled is more exciting
Review: This book is a quick read and that is just about the only good thing that I have to say about this book. I opened it expecting to laugh and learn something interesting about her life. What I have found instead is something not much more coherent than speaking to a three year old. The whole book consists of rambling, nonsense, incoherent stories that seem to make little if any sense. I seriously think that I lost a few brain cells while reading this book. If you start reading this and think oh it has to get better. I warn you it NEVER does! It's mindless drivle

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Summary: A book that will make you cry you're laughing so hard!
Review: For the third time I am reading this book and each time I laugh. Ellen is funny. It is a book that can make you laugh, smile and want to share the stories with others.

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Summary: Smart, funny and well worth your time.
Review: This book is light and funny. I recommend it to anyone who wants a good, clean laugh.

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Summary: Can this book be any worse?
Review: Ellen Degeneres has been surrounded by controversy ever since she came out of the closet as a lesbian--and that's what I was waiting for in her book, My Point...and I Do Have One. Instead, what I found was a bunch of ramblings that had nothing to do with her life. In fact, the only chapter that actually dealt with her life--Chapter One--wasn't serious at all. It was an interview Degeneres had with a neighbor from her childhood year, asking her what she remembered about her. All the neighbor had to say was that she was fat and had no friends. I was expecting to learn about her experiences as a gay woman, her life, her hardships, her influences. This book offered none of that. Ultimately, I was disappointed in the lack of sincerity and intensity of the book. To me, it seemed frou-frou, disorganized, and not at all real. I felt I wasted my time by reading it. I could have watched her show and gotten the same information, at the same time seen some funny acting. Her book was written like her TV show, a rambling discussion about whatever she chooses. It was as if she picked out her subjects from a hat, and then wrote about them. Every time Ellen began a discussion based on the chapter heading, she veered off into something totally different. But at the every end of the chapter, in a weak attempt to regain the thread of her topic, she returns briefly to her main point. Her book was really not based on anything, and each chapter had nothing to do with the others. There's one chapter dedicated to her famous French toast recipe with squid, and another about what people should do to annoy co-workers. Some are lists, poems, journal entries, apology letters, fill-in-the-blanks, and just plain prose, but they are all individual and different. She actually skipped chapter 13 because she felt that if it was bad luck for a building elevator, it would be bad luck for her book. Her writing style was at first intriguing, because I have always found her comedic acts funny and true to life. She included interesting descriptions, like "I was born, bred, and lightly sauteed in and around New Orleans, a city steeped and marinated in history." But after realizing that her whole book was written in the voice of a person is speed talking and mixing up subjects, I began to get annoyed. Even her chapter titles had subtitles that were off the point, like I went to a psychic, or......baloney is just salami with an inferiority complex. Why couldn't she just stay on one point longer than a few sentences? I finally realized that her title really held true to her book. She said that she had a main point, but left it to discover another point, only to finally return to the original point at the very end. In my humble opinion, this book is 2 thumbs down! I would feel guilty recommending it to my worst enemy. This book started off with my high hopes of a good read, but left me with a harsh disappointment. I had expected to learn more about the author, and to get insight into her life, instead, I learned how to get bogeymen out of my closet. Ellen should stick to stand-up comedy instead of attempting to write a book and wasting the time of her publishers and the readers.

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Summary: I laughed my head off!
Review: I laughed my head off so much while reading this book! ;) I couldn't put it down once I picked it up. I often found myself not sleeping because I was reading it too much. I really enjoyed Ellen's humor. It is very similar to my own. I highly suggest this book to anyone who wants to laugh out loud! =) I would love to read more books written by Ellen!

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Summary: Great Book!
Review: I just figure it out that this book it's awesome. It's pretty funny and fascinating! I'm a fan of Ellen with all my heart. And for those Ellen's fans i told you to buy this book the soon as possible!!!

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Summary: Garbage
Review: This book can be described in one word: Garbage

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Summary: Ellen unplugged and at her best.
Review: Ellen does a fanastic job making and writing her own stories jokes and words in this book. She encourages you not to always take things so seriously and gives you a major laugh. WARNING: Only read while on firm surface- you might fall off of it laughing.