I love to listen to Margaret Cho on Pandora: Women in Comedy and watch her on DVD....

I like her views on life, her honesty & her fight for humanitarianism... She is right on and bluntly honest.

Apparently, however, I do not like reading her books. This is the 3rd I've read and the 2nd I didn't like. I was thinking about this last night and I was comparing my dislike of reading her work to my reaction to Andy Rooney's books.... Which was/is the same. I love the sound clips & the visuals, but reading them is tediously boring for me....

I find watching & listening them both enjoyable & funny, but not reading them..... It is like an overdose of birthday cake.

There was one other thing that peeved me, There was a great quote by Jerry Seinfeld comparing Margaret Cho to Richard Pryor, but is was wrongly attributed to some newspaper on the back of the cover....

What she says in her book, is the same as her stand-up routines, they are funnier in her live voice than her voice in my head.... ( )

Listened to this on audio, and oddly enough, as Cho is such a terrific live performer, her reading really fell flat. It seemed as though she were reading someone else's work and not her own. As I was listening, I kept thinking to myself "This would really be so much better as a blog..." In the conclusion, she explains that they do actually come from her blog.

I see that some other reviewers really rated this low because they were expecting 6 discs of her stand-up routine. Having read the back of the box (and well, the TITLE), it was pretty obvious that this was a politically-oriented work. She makes absolutely astute observations, and is very open about where her philosophy originates. I came away with not only a new understanding of Margaret Cho, but an even greater appreciation of her. Had I read it rather than listened, I would most likely have given it the full five stars. ( )

I thought this was to be humor, but it's more political and autobiographical. Not my genre at all. Didn't finish=DNF. ( )

What a pleasant surprise! I've always been a fan of Cho's stand-up and even her short-lived television series, but I was not prepared for the power of her writing. Very moving. I enjoyed this book very much and I am looking forward to reading more by her.

It got a little preachy and overdone on the same sex marriage issue, but I agree with Cho on that front, so it wasn't too hard to overlook. ( )

The only part I enjoyed was her meeting with David Bowie. Otherwise, the book was more preachy than funny.