Name: The Idiot Girls' Action Adventure Club
ISBN: 9780375760914

Laurie Notaro

In a hilarious compendium of essays and accounts of her autobiographical misadventures and life experiences, the leader of the Idiot Girls' Action Adventure Club covers topics ranging from bad boyfriends and jobs to embarrassing doctor visits and high-school reunions. Original. 75,000 first printing.

The Idiot Girls' Action Adventure Club

Sarah Sammis

Laurie Notaro is one of those self printing success stories. After failing to find a publisher for a collection of her humor columns she turned to print on demand. The success of her book caught the eye Random House who offered her a two book deal. She now has seven books.

The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club is Laurie Notaro's first book with Random House. It contains a series of short stories from her life. They can be divided up for the most part into tales about drinking, tales about the effects of drinking, and tales about being repressed about sex. Where are the "tales from a magnificent and clumsy life" promised by the subtitle and illustrated by the delightfully fully cover photograph? I don't know because I didn't see any in the book.

My favorite chapter from this mediocre book is "Dead in a Box." It covers Laurie's cleaning binge of the "scary room." A roommate had left the ashes of a departed loved one in a box under a bed. Then the roommate had left and forgotten the box. How she deals with the situation made me grin.

Sarah Escorsa

I had no idea what this book was about when I started reading it, I just thought it sounded funny and liked the title. Well it turns out I didn't find this book funny at all and actually rarely smiled while reading.

The Idiot Girls' Action Adventure Club

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