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I'm a big fan of Margaret Cho, and even saw her recent movie from which this book is based. The movie is a touching, revealing, and very funny look at her struggles with weight, drugs, and trying to star in a failing TV show. Unfortunately, her new book is not.

What the movie had that the book did not was the real, human persona of Cho. Most of what she writes comes across as bitter and occasionally mean-spirited. She seems to have written this book as a vendetta against people in her past that have wronged her. Celebrities who use their fame to exact revenge through writing a book never seem to pull it off well. One story of a camping experience with her friends pulls us on her side, until we read about her treatment of those who wronged her, exposing a bitterness I didn't like.

Cho has so much talent, and hopefully, after venting in this book, she can now rise above and shine as bright as I know she can. In the mean time, I suggest holding off on buying this book, and looking for the movie instead.

I first read an excerpt of the book in a magazine. Once I finished the article, I ran to the nearest bookstore to pick up Margaret Cho's book. It's filled with humor and a compelling honesty about life, love (or lack there of) of self and others, and her rise and fall and rise again to the top. I started to read the first few lines of the book and couldn't put it down again until I finished the last word of the book. As an Asian-American woman myself, Margaret Cho puts a genuine face to the experience I, myself, went through in terms of identity, family, society, and the oftentimes awkwardness both in the APA community and out. I first thought that Margaret Cho's book would be "another humor book" filled with jokes and witty titles as she re-hashed her stage routine on paper. Yet, I was pleasantly surprised to find it a more indepth look into her life.

I strongly encourage everyone to buy and read her book! It's fantastic! I've already purchased copies for my mom and my sisters!

Heartfelt and Hilarious! If you're looking for comedy, get her videos or CD's. This is nice, but it's more on the sentimental side, not the funny side of Margaret.