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    I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me

    Published by Penguin Random House Audio

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    "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways."
    ---Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1850

    "How do I hate thee? How much time do you have?"
    ---Joan Rivers, today, about two-ish

    Joan Rivers is a groundbreaking, award-winning, internationally renowned entertainment goddess. She's also opinionated-especially when it comes to people she hates. Like people who think giving birth is a unique achievement. Or well-adjusted, a.k.a. boring, ex-child stars who don't even have a decent addiction.

    With all of her diverse experiences, it stands to reason that Joan has seen, done, said, and heard a lot of hateful things. Thank god, she took notes.

    Here -- uncensored and totally uninhibited -- she give the best of her worst to First Ladies, closet cases, hypocrites, Hollywood, feminists, and overrated historical figures. And even when letting herself have it, Joan doesn't hold back in this honest, unabashedly hilarious love letter to the hater in all of us.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJun 5, 2012
    ISBN9781101564165
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    • 3/5
      I love me some Joan Rivers. "A Piece of Work" is one of my favorite documentaries - giving that full-force, workaholic Joan, vulnerable and brutal all at once. I hoped this book would give more of that, especially now that we've lost her. But it is a joke-punched diatribe when I wanted a curtain-dropping soliloquy - like she unburdened her archive of one-liners instead of her soul. Then again, we didn't really earn that intimacy, did we?
    • 3/5
      It definitely had its funny moments but there were sections I just skimmed through. Specifically, the chapter where she gives all 50 states 2-3 new state nicknames. I glossed over a few (then checked the states I have lived in) and moved on

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    • 5/5
      Hilarious!!!!! She is the queen. Loved every minute of it.

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    • 4/5
      I laughed so hard at this book.

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    • 2/5
      You have to admire Joan Rivers' persistence and drive. I haven't followed her career closely, but watched the documentary "Joan Rivers - A Piece of Work" and really enjoyed it. I listened to I Hate Everyone as an audiobook in the car on the way to work, and got a few laughs out of it. The shtick gets old quickly, but when it works, it works. The books doesn't do anything to reveal Rivers as a human being, though (unlike the documentary film), so when the laughs get thin, there's not anything else to fall back on.
    • 2/5
      Joan Rivers attacks everything and everybody in her sometimes hilarious but almost always vulgar and vitriolic misanthropic observations about who and what annoys her.I wasn’t always offended by her attacks – after all, she doesn’t leave anyone out, not even herself. And she makes a point of frequently interjecting remarks so outrageous it is clear she is only joking. Still.At times, she tackled subjects that just would have best been left alone. I’m not one to find humor in making fun of, for instance, handicapped people. Also, I do admit to wishing she hadn’t employed foul language so freely. (Although she quite rightly goes after hypocritical people like me who say “f-ing” but get all freaked out over people using the full “F word.”) But I did feel squirmily offended by her frequent gratuitous use of words that are not only crass and deprecatory but, in addition, sexist when referring to females: does she really have to call Anne Frank “that bitch” or call other women the “c-word”?It’s very interesting to me that so much of what is considered funny today involves sex and/or vulgarity. Certainly for years and years comedians made people laugh through witticisms like clever puns, or lampoons, or even insults, without resorting to raunchiness. Joan Rivers seems to think that her flagrant use of obscenity is funny in and of itself. And sometimes, it is in fact an essential part of the joke. Take this example by Rodney Dangerfeld, who gave his impression of a New York echo as:"Helloooo! Shut the fuck up!"But for the most part, I don’t find profanity inherently amusing. Maybe it is so to many people, but I sort of prefer more content to my social satire.
    • 4/5
      IMHO, Joan Rivers can do no wrong. I first saw her perform in Chicago in the mid 1980's and am pleased to be able to continue to enjoy her work now.There's nothing new under the sun, and that's certainly the case here. If you didn't like Joan before this book will not change your mind. OTOH, if you enjoy Joan's unique take on things then you'll enjoy this quick read
    • 4/5
      A long string of bitchy one-liners, conveniently grouped by target group. It's (mostly) tongue in cheek, and I found it hilarious. Bless her.