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Summary: heartbreakingly hilairious
Review: Great book! A seminal work by a first-time author. Plus, I loved Laura in "Mulholland Drive," but she needs to know that she doesn't have to take her shirt off if she wants to get movie parts.
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Summary: Original, Worth Reading, but very Depressing
Review: I enjoy Laura's standup but the book was classified as a comedy and I think I laughed only once while reading the book. Dark humor is something I'm quite found of and I'm a huge fan of movies like the Royal Tenebaums which is why I've been drawn to Laura. (Not to mention she's unnecessarily attractive) The book is depressing and even though I found her teen years interesting, it was harder to identify with her being male. I was also disappointed with Laura's ability to see life so one dimensionally, I understand she's been through a lot, but then so has everyone! I wanted to just give her a hug and so life isn't so bad, or good, its just life. I'd recommend this book to my cynical female friends who enjoy dark humor, that's about it.
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Summary: Original, Worth Reading, but very Depressing
Review: I enjoy Laura's standup but the book was classified as a comedy and I think I laughed only once while reading the book. Dark humor is something I'm quite found of and I'm a huge fan of movies like the Royal Tenebaums which is why I've been drawn to Laura. (Not to mention she's unnecessarily attractive) The book is depressing and even though I found her teen years interesting, it was harder to identify with her being male. I was also disappointed with Laura's ability to see life so one dimensionally, I understand she's been through a lot, but then so has everyone! I wanted to just give her a hug and so life isn't so bad, or good, its just life. I'd recommend this book to my cynical female friends who enjoy dark humor, that's about it.
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Summary: Good Comic; Terrific Writer
Review: I picked this one up on a whim, after seeing the author's stand up performances on Comedy Central (the last available commercial television network for thinking adults). She is very good as a comedienne, but nowhere near as much so as in writing this book. I can't imagine how it hasn't received more notice. Kightlinger masters the art of expressing acid distaste better than anyone I have read in years. I might compare her to a Camille Paglia with less erudition, but a whole lot more laughs. As much as I enjoyed Quick Shots, my wife did so far more -- a woman thing, I guess. The High School stories reminded me vaguely of the wonderful things that Jean Shepard used to write about the 30's and 40's in Indiana -- except updated for the 80's and 90's with appropriate amounts of bile and coarseness in place of the sugar. Kightlinger's use of language is razor like: you will be reading the next sentence before you notice the blood from the subtle cut two lines back. She also has a magical ability to weave crude and vulgar terms (no criticism intended) into standard diction for an awesome shock effect (and accompanying bellylaughs). This is one terrific book and I would be profoundly disappointed if the author doesn't follow up with some more.
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Summary: (wo)Mantastic!
Review: Laura Kightlinger is fabulous, squared. I don't care whether Quick Shots is an autobiography or short fiction, whatever it is it is delightful, and the only book I've ever read (of MANY) to be so frank and funny about the girlish growing pains of being (or believing that you are) untalented trailer trash. I guess I could relate. Someday Laura is going to be so famous, drag queens will impersonate her. You go, girl!
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Summary: I know women aren't funny but...
Review: QUICK SHOTS OF FALSE HOPE is balls-out, laugh-out loud funny, funny, funny.It's hard to review because describing 'funny' only makes it less funny. Imagine, maybe, the chick from WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE except she's funny and pretty. The book, while fiction, is written as loosely autobiographical. I can only hope that that most of it is exaggerated as it portrays one searingly painful and embarrassing chapter after another. But Kightlinger's writing is so refreshingly honest and funny that we're not too close to her pain that we have to cringe but not too far away that we can't identify with her strange journey. Maybe I never funked out to CAR WASH in front of the whole school but, well, close enough. I'm not very good at this review stuff but this is the kind of book that makes me want to tell everyone to read it. I don't because people hate when you do that. So I'm posting this instead.
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Summary: Laugh Out Loud Funny
Review: This book is just not funny. I tried hard to laugh, but it was just not funny. Anyway, it's a nice read.. so it doesn't deserve 1 star.
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Summary: Garbage
Review: This book is one of the worst I've read. Can't believe my friend convinced me to waste my money on this. She's honest? Right. That's what she wants you to think. Try unconvincingly cynical in the most brattiest possible way. Go spend your money on something that's actually worth it. Like Clifford the Big Red Dog.
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Summary: Sad and funny
Review: This woman is hilarious. Her writing is fabulous, she gets to the point of story-telling, recounting many painful events in a poignant comical way. I here echoes of Will & Grace (in particular Karen) and now understand where that show gets the fabulous tone and millions of hilarious non-stop zingers. I loved it. If you like Will & Grace- read this book.
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Summary: darkly funny page -turner
Review: Who would have predicted that a chronicle of life's dreadful moments would result in the funny and addictive page-turner that comic Laura Kightlinger has created here! Fortunately, Kightlinger is not afraid to share her most embarrassing and painful moments with us (from high school and family to stints on tv). Kightlinger has a hilarious, dark voice and don't-lick-your-wounds attitude. Her personal and off-beat stories are filled with shrewd observations and a brilliantly perverse, dark wit. Her stories are written with a no frills realism that unveils uncomfortable emotions familiar to us all, while her sharp-minded humor gives them an unconventional edge. This book is also an interesting chronicle of a performer's struggle toward success. Highly recommended!
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