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My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

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Author: Chelsea Handler
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
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A book written by a 12 year old

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Jul 15, 2010
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I love stories about sex and sexuality. They run the spectrum from intense to hilarious. Usually.

Handler's My Horrizontal Life failed on just about all accounts, however.

I got about halfway through the book before I had to set it down indefinitely. I'm not sure how her publisher did it.

The tone of the writing is grating. Not only are we getting insights into a teenager's immature sex life, but we're also getting the grating, obnoxious, self-righteous tone of a teenager. I wanted to step into the story and slap her for, dare I say, being such a whiny bitch.

The story did have a strong hook. Telling the story of hiding from her father after daring her sister to take a picture of their parents having sex was engaging. But the book as a whole just did not maintain that momentum. 

I had high hopes for the story, especially after reading the first chapter, but Handler just couldn't keep me interested. If you like listening to teenagers talk about their sex lives as if they know what they're talking about, this book might be for you. If not, I recommend you pass on this one.

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Jun 24, 2010
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Regardless if you watch Chelsea Lately, her late night comedy show on E!, you can easily become a fan of her sarcastic and comical outlook on life.  Clearly, she is an open book and shares anything and everything on her mind.  The way she thinks, responds, and describes things are just hilariously truthful and off the wall.  She writes just like she speaks, so the book is like her talking, just telling the stories of her love life.  Be warned, she starts the book with a horrifying and scarring story about her first encounter with anything sexually related...and it happens to be her parents!  Each chapter is a new crazy situation with a "lover" of some sort.  Some stories probably shouldn't have been shared, but thank god she did for our entertainment!  As most of her viewers know, she has a fascination and borderline obsession with small people, her favorite of course, Chewy.  As the first of her three books, this one will begin to describe her love for the little nuggets (a term she uses to describe everything that she loves and can squeeze).  The chapter in this book involves a potential intimate scenario which is a little unclear of its outcome, but was still thoroughly entertaining!  Prepare to laugh out loud while reading!  If this means you don't want to be in public, don't be, you've been warned, it will happen.  For the more serious and intellectual readers, this book is not for you.  It is fun, exciting, a quick read, and the perfect thing to read when just lounging around, on vacation, or laying out.  I love it. I love her. It' s great.
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ISBN-10: 1582346186
ISBN-13: 978-1582346182
Author: Chelsea Handler
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

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