Everything Is Perfect When You're a Liar Author: Kelly Oxford | Language: English | ISBN:
B007HBLNII | Format: PDF
Everything Is Perfect When You're a Liar Description
Kelly Oxford has been one of the most hysterical voices on the Internet since it was still a series of tubes. In 1997, she began sharing stories of her life as a young wife and mother on a Geocities page, then on an anonymous blog, then on a MySpace account; eventually she found her métier in the widely followed Tumblr blog Eject and in her raucous, often filthy, always hilarious Twitter feed, which has garnered 315,000 followers and adds 500 to 2,000 more each day. There is no mistaking Kelly’ s voice:
- “ Something people in McDonalds have? Fries. Something people in McDonalds don’ t have? Ankles.”
- “ Caught 2 yr old chewing on a corn kernel she found in her shoe; looks like my husband doesn’ t need that paternity test after all!”
- “ When my dog smells someone’ s crotch I say, ‘ Sorry, she’ s one of those cancer smelling dogs.’ ”
- “ Had my son’ s hearing tested because he’ s always yelling. Turns out he’ s just an asshole.”
Straight-talking and riotously funny, Kelly Oxford has a knack for seeing the hilarity in the everyday. Now, Kelly has written a side-splitting book of essays that shine her blindingly sardonic light on life as she sees it.
- File Size: 531 KB
- Print Length: 341 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0062102222
- Publisher: It Books (April 2, 2013)
- Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers
- Language: English
- ASIN: B007HBLNII
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,184 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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It would be a little easier to like Kelly more if you got the feeling that she liked herself just a tiny bit less. What makes these types of memoirs work really well is the kind of self deprecation that lets you know that you will hear the whole story. Kelly is not the kind of narrator (like David Sedaris) who is truly going to trot out her own shortcomings. Instead she has the kind of fake shortcomings that prevent any of the stories from becoming personal and funny.
Compare, I Talk Pretty One Day to this book. Sedaris takes his weakness and lays it bare. In doing that we come to understand the whole story and get a good idea of his role and the other players'. But every story in this book is the Kelly Show, starring Kelly. Poor Kelly is too smart, too skinny, too pretty. She has madcap adventures with menstruating dogs and monkey penises. And she at six has a remarkably (and improbably) mature vocabulary. If you are going to retell a story, it is fine to use your adult vocabulary. But the quotes she gives us are so discordenant that it detracts from the story (Kelly is so smart and trying to produce a play). Kelly and her friends go to Vegas as David Copperfield's guests. The whole point of this anecdote is that everyone universally agrees that kelly has a great body. She should, having dedicated her life to navel gazing.
You do have to overlook the endless "I'm smarter than everyone" shtick. And the vaguely racist comments. And the not at all vaguely racist comments. And the complaints about her husband who ought to be nominated for sainthood. And the little barbs about fat people. A smoker laughing at the chubbies is hilarious but not for the reasons Kelly thinks. And then there is Kelly's turn as a rehabilitation assistant.
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