Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang

  ….Or should  say Blah Blah….

It pains me to say this, but I was….underwhelmed by Chelsea’s latest book Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang. 

Now, before I go any further know that I love Chelsea Handler. I have seen her live. I watch her show (and have a clogged up DVR to prove it) and regularly laugh my ass off watching it the same way I laughed my way through her earlier books and told everyone I knew to read them.

But this one felt like just a reiteration of the same stories. I literally stopped reading for a minute to try to figure why the chapter about her discovery of “the feeling” sounded so familiar before it hit me that she had a similar chapter in   Are You There Vodka…. And really, there are only so many times you can read about an 8 year old girl fiddling herself before it gets repetitive. (well. That’s a sentence I never thought I would write.)

It’s not that this book is not funny, it is…I laughed out loud a few times. But not in the hysterical tears streaming down my face struggle to not wake up the neighbors way that I expected to.

Maybe that’s it. I have very high expectations of the awesome Miss Handler. Maybe I was expecting “Wow, this is so refreshing and funny!” and instead I got, “Oh. Another really long section about her slob of a father…” and that’s why I was left feeling so … Meh…

For the sake of not sounding like a total Debbie Downer, and to make sure there are no hard feelings and affirm that I still love Chelsea dearly,  here is one of my favorite lines from the book – at least one I liked enough to remember to highlight on my kindle – that make me giggle and say, “YES! Me too!”

"I would rather sit next to a transgender person and discuss why every single one I've met smells like a bar in the daytime than listen to people tell me why I want to have children and that I just don't know it yet. I do know, because I'm me and my feelings are the ones in my head. I don't want to have kids, and it's not a device to get attention or have conversations about it. I simply find children incredibly immature and, more often than not, dumb." ~ Chelsea Handler,  Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang