Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
2012 • 318 pages
Ratings63
Average rating3.9
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Ratings63
Average rating3.9
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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I have NEVER laughed this hard and this often when reading any book - ever! Tears running down my face, and literally ending up in coughing fits of laughter...
I read it slowly (on purpose) so that I would be forced to enjoy a little bit of it each day.
(And here I am, changing this book's rating to five stars. It's because, months after I've read it, I've thought of certain parts and they made me laugh out loud all over again. I can't not give this 5 stars.)
The writing is messy (though in a very relatable and charming way) and the essays/anecdotes inside rarely flow.
That's about all the negative things I can say about this book. It's no masterpiece, but it's incredibly funny. It's absurd and awkward, though there's something really human and personal about it as well.
This was a perfect audiobook for my long commute. I laughed the entire way to class every night. Jenny Lawson is an absolute queen of the world and her stories made me both lightheaded from laughing and secure in the knowledge that I am not alone in being weird haha. Well done, Jenny.
Supposed to be a funny memoir, but I didn't laugh once. Some bits were interesting. Probably could have just stuck to the blog, though.
