Maybe I was expecting something different and since I didn't get what I expected, I was disappointed. I felt like half of the book was written by one person, and the other half by someone else. I got about half that, and then a big jump to "this guy hit on me, then this guy hit on me, then this other guy hit on me." And probably two of the things she's known best for, her Playboy shoot and the jump into the pie, she incessantly complains about. I watched her on AOTS, and know she has the geek cred, and she's hot, so that helps, right? I was expecting a book about her time growing up in the midwest as an Asian kid, how she got to Hollywood, and eventually ended up on AOTS. All in all, this is a mindless, occasionally comical listen, which was mostly what I was expecting and wanting at the time. Maybe I would but not when that's the message I'm getting every half hour or so. You need to go buy the book." Which really bothers me because didn't I just pay money to listen to an "unabridged" version of this book? Doesn't that mean that every word should be read? So basically, the narration cheats the listener and is constantly asking the listener to go buy more of her stuff. Also, at least once or twice the author/narrator says "I'm not going to read this part. Throw us an acknowledgement occasionally too. I get that maybe her target audience is the prepubescent male, but why exclude others who want to laugh too. Not that I care so much but as a female listener, I felt a little excluded and like this part wasn't for me. I mean she never addresses her reader as female but on several occasions does as male. However, more than once I noticed the author was speaks directly to a very specific audience, that of the teenage boy. So there are funny parts and lots of them.
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