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Was listening to this on audiobook, when I realized that I had just spent 20 minutes hearing Dunham read her caloric intake journal from 2010. That's got to be a joke, right? She doesn't honestly think there's any way someone would be interested in that, right? I'm very impressed with how much she has accomplished so early in life, and I really wanted to like this book, but this whole thing was such an exercise in narcissism. It was like when someone starts telling you about their dreams or show
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“I can't find a goddamn f*cking job and I'm too fat to be a stripper."
This book is a solid 3.5, but I can't quite give it 4 stars - mostly because I'm an over 40 woman listening to stories from an under 30 woman which elicits way too many eye rolls. Also, I like Lena Dunham's "Girls" on HBO a lot and possibly had unrealistic expectations on how much I would like her autobiography. She is witty and funny in this book, I just wanted more. I only related to a handful of her essays, but when I did r ...more
This book is a solid 3.5, but I can't quite give it 4 stars - mostly because I'm an over 40 woman listening to stories from an under 30 woman which elicits way too many eye rolls. Also, I like Lena Dunham's "Girls" on HBO a lot and possibly had unrealistic expectations on how much I would like her autobiography. She is witty and funny in this book, I just wanted more. I only related to a handful of her essays, but when I did r ...more
Disappointed by this but I had high expectations (even pre-ordered it!).
Things I learned:
1. It's hard to be Lena Dunham. Really hard. And I mean that genuinely and non-judgmental my.
2. While I have great respect for Lena Dunham and generally love her work, I don't want to be her friend.
2. I would have been miserable at Oberlin.
By the end of this audiobook, we were just waiting for this to be over. Funny moments - but at the end of the day, a bit too navel-gazing. ...more
Things I learned:
1. It's hard to be Lena Dunham. Really hard. And I mean that genuinely and non-judgmental my.
2. While I have great respect for Lena Dunham and generally love her work, I don't want to be her friend.
2. I would have been miserable at Oberlin.
By the end of this audiobook, we were just waiting for this to be over. Funny moments - but at the end of the day, a bit too navel-gazing. ...more
I wanted to like this book, but just didn't. I liked some stuff, a lot, but mostly I'm just not sure why she wrote this book. Found the parts about her business most interesting.
I would file it under, book about your 20's written by a person without enough distance to have perspective on it.
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I would file it under, book about your 20's written by a person without enough distance to have perspective on it.
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(3 1/2 stars, really)
I thought I would hate this book but I actually didn't. It was fluffy and not deep, but it was like reading your really talkative best friend's (I'm sure I fill that role for some) diary/food journal/blog/Facebook feed. Sometimes funny, sometimes piercingly sad, sometimes WTF and occasionally something deep and of merit. I look forward to her REAL memoir when she's actually lived something of life. ...more
I thought I would hate this book but I actually didn't. It was fluffy and not deep, but it was like reading your really talkative best friend's (I'm sure I fill that role for some) diary/food journal/blog/Facebook feed. Sometimes funny, sometimes piercingly sad, sometimes WTF and occasionally something deep and of merit. I look forward to her REAL memoir when she's actually lived something of life. ...more
Oct 08, 2014
Kate McCartney
marked it as to-read
Oct 24, 2014
Isabel
marked it as to-read
Sep 05, 2015
Erin
marked it as to-read
