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Title: Hard Laughter : A Novel by Anne Lamott ISBN: 0-86547-280-7 Publisher: North Point Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 1979 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.9 (21 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Not her best
Comment: I read "Hard Laughter" eagerly because I loved "Operating Instructions" so much. I was a bit disappointed. I didn't find it quite as funny, and I love Anne Lamott mostly for her humor (I've also heard her a couple of times on the radio and she was hysterical).
It was interesting, however, to go back and thumb through "Operating Instructions," which she wrote much later, after having been through rehab, a religious epiphany, the death of her father and the birth of her son. I think that her writing has benefitted greatly from her life experiences. It was also a bit difficult reading "Hard Laughter," with all of the drugs and alcohol, and knowing (from having read "Operating Instructions") that she had a serious problem. It brings a sadness to the book that was not intended (i.e. not the sadness about her father's illness).
All in all though, a mediocre Anne Lamott is a first-rate anyone else!
Rating: 5
Summary: Hard Laughter
Comment: In this funny and inspiring story Anne Lamott shows us the importance of good friends, close family, and hard laughter. Through the characters' struggles with relationships, careers, and death, we discover the true strength of the human heart: the ability to find beauty in, and endure through, rough times. An important lesson in life and love, highlighted by laugh-out-loud funny lines, make this book memorable and worth experiencing.
Rating: 4
Summary: laughter to match the times
Comment: With a father recently diagnosed with a brain tumor, a significant other who is hardly significant, and a neurotic dream consultant for a best friend, it seems hard to believe that Jennifer, the main character of Anne Lamott's book, could find anything to laugh about. And yet, as the title suggests, she not only finds some hard laughter in the situation, but also realizes that laughter is, in fact, one of the things that makes life worth the struggle. Whether or not you're of a mind to appreciate Lamott's neurotic humor, that realization--the preciousness and beauty of laughter in the face of the darkest times--alone makes this book worth reading. True to the terrible mundacity of tragic life events, Lamott's book subtly and deftly captures the experience of a family's brush with a potentially devastating situation--the waiting, the disappointment, the embarassment--the laughter in hard times and the good hard laughter in spite of those times that carries you through.
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Title: Traveling Mercies : Some Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott ISBN: 0385496095 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 15 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Bird by Bird : Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott ISBN: 0385480016 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Crooked Little Heart : A Novel by Anne Lamott ISBN: 0385491808 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 18 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Rosie: A Novel by Anne Lamott ISBN: 0140264795 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: All New People: A Novel by Anne Lamott ISBN: 1582430543 Publisher: Counterpoint Press Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
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