After reading my last book (Anybody Out There), I was looking for a good comedy to pick up my mood. Luckily, I had requested this book a few weeks earlier via inter-library loan and was able to pick it up a few days ago - and I ended up finishing it in about a day. Many had suggested Chelsea Handler to me after I expressed interest in Laurie Notaro and Jen Lancaster, so I thought I would try it - my library didn't have it, so it probably prevented me from reading it as quickly as I would have had it been accessible.

Each story pulled me in, with enough introduction and background to build up a great short story (sometimes I can't stand short story type books because they feel like they jump around a lot), and had continuity through the characters so that it was hard for me to stop reading in between story changes. The best thing of all, which I didn't expect, was that Chelsea seemed to learn some lessons in the end - as the pages were dwindling, I kind of expected it to end with a "well, what do you expect when you have one-night stands?" or some other similar quip. After the end, I am encouraged to read her other book (Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea), which my sister loaned me. Looking for a humor pick-me-up? Try this one out. ( )

Oh. My. God. This book made me laugh out loud, blush and cover the page while I was reading on the train, and cry just a little. Chelsea is hilarious, and she writes just as she speaks. The little people fascination is a little disturbing, but I also felt that it was educational as well.

If you need a good book to jump start your summer, or anything else, this is the one. Not recommended to share with your parents or fellow congregants. ( )

this is my alltime favorite book. i could re read it one thousand times. i highly recommend it to anyone. i love love love it : ) ( )

Chelsea Handler has a lot of sex and she likes to tell people about it, preferably in the form of neatly packaged, humorous anecdotes. This is both good and bad. On the good side, she is genuinely funny, so this book makes a nice escape if you've been reading heavier literature. On the down side, the constant joking can wear thin. I bought this hoping for something more like a good episode of Sex and The City -- entertaining, partly comedic, but also somewhat honest and thought-provoking. Except for the last essay, Handler's book doesn't really deliver on that. It is a fun poolside read though. ( )

I hope for the sake of the innocent and guilty that the names in this kiss and tell book were changed. Actually that should be more like--have sex with and tell, but that's beside the point.

Chelesa Handler's memoir of memorable one-night stands is both as racy as you'd expect and not nearly as racy as you'd like to think. Handler's humor is self-deprecating and the fact that she finds such an assortment of one-night stands is an intersting one. The book could definitely be an advertisement for Alcoholic's Anonymous since many of these stories revolve around decisions made while under the influence. Handler details stories about various men--some good, some bad and details their eccecentries and short-comings (pun fully intended).

That said, there are times when Handler works too hard to set up punchlines. I'd say this is a limitation of the work being a printed one, but since I listened to the audio version that doesn't necessarily apply.

Be warned--if you're easily offended, don't read this one. ( )