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The USA Today review on the back cover says, "Knee-slapping hilarious!" I don't think so. While the author is eccentric and sometimes funny, she is not knee-slapping funny. In that sense, the book is overrated.

It's a collection of personal (sometimes painfully so) essays. They are well-written and seem honest. But I am not sucked into the book, dying to find out what happens next. I want to finish the book just to be able to say I've finished it, not because I find it deeply interesting.

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This book is hilarious, but it can also be overwhelming. The lies of the right are clearly exposed, and that sometimes wore me down. I had to put the book down the first time I started reading it (a few years ago), because I was so disgusted with what the right had done. This time I had to put it down for a few weeks to get past the disgust before I could finish it. The humorous writing carried me through.

Besides, it was refreshing to have the lies exposed with facts, for once.

He has had a fascinating life...but how he goes on and on and on! It is sometimes difficult to follow him, because he is so wordy. His stories don't necessarily go in chronological order, either, so it is difficult to get a good idea of where in his life certain events fall.

However, this is the first time I have read an author who has written in such detail about his view of the Holocaust, particularly his questions about the rest of the world's silence for so long. I can relate to his anger towards God, as well. I was moved by his willingness to continue to celebrate the traditions of his faith, even while feeling very angry at God for allowing the extermination of his people. I was also impressed with his insistence that survivors tell their stories, so the world will not forget and cannot pretend with embarrassment that it never happened.

Sometimes biological family are the people who *least* deserve your trust.