Get Your Tongue out of my Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye!
by Cynthia Heimel
So before I made a special trip to the Allen library to get this book, I re-checked the reviews. They ranged from, "It was hilarious!" to, "Not funny at all." Or more like, not-funny-by-reason-of-ideology. People didn't laugh at this book because they didn't agree with it. Agree with it?!? It's humor! Since when do you agree with humor? Take my wife--please. Is that a sexist remark?
I don't think readers treated this in the same way they would a book by a male writer. I think they took it way too seriously. I wonder if they got offended when she wrote about how she wished she were a lesbian so she wouldn't be such a wimpy, praise-seeking pushover. They thought she was serious? Did they miss the final sentence?
As for me, I thought it was pretty funny. Nothing to recommend especially, but not a waste of time.
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