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findingmontauk1 's review for:
The Last Black Unicorn
by Tiffany Haddish
I am struggling on where to go with this review. There are two parts of me that finished this book. One part of me is the guy who loves comedy and really enjoys a story of such growth from rags to riches. Tiffany Haddish bounced around in foster care and had a mother with sever mental illness. She couldn't read as a freshman in high school, had a series of bad jobs, had a super abusive marriage, went through a homeless stint sleeping in her car, and somehow she still ended up killing the game, making a name for herself, and making us all laugh. I LOVE that!
What I didn't like? It's hard for me to decide "What part of this book is Tiffany the comedian and what part is Tiffany the person?" Who craps in their ex-boyfriends shoes and sends his entire family, kids and grandparents alike, a scandalous and raunchy video he made while cheating on her? Who spends an entire chapter referring to a handicapped man's "dead baby arm" and drool while simultaneously trying to speak like someone who has a disability? There were so many times I felt uncomfortable and I knew no one even knew what I was listening to. BUT STILL. It just made me so uncomfortable to hear her mock this man's voice for a WHOLE chapter. And if you are the slightest bit overweight, you are just fat and nasty in her eyes.
So... I am going to go with 2.5 stars on this. And I am still not even sure if that is the right rating. She made me bust out laughing SO much in this book; I can't lie about that. But she exposed so many UGLY parts about her as a person that I can't help but just feel bad. I am also one for profanity; I use it a lot, myself! But this book just got a little too trashy at times. A BOOK. I think in a stand-up act or a movie, a lot more of this book would have worked better. But this is a book and it should be polished and not tacky.I also learned that Tucker Max helped her co-write this book. I am not about that at all.
I LOVE her growth and I LOVE how authentic she is. She is totally herself and does NOT care what anyone thinks. I think we can all live our truths more than we do. She does. But the way she presented it works a LOT better in a stand-up act or a movie than in a book. I just can't get past the 'co-written memoir' aspect (with TUCKER MAX no less.....) full of classless and cruel humor in a book.
What I didn't like? It's hard for me to decide "What part of this book is Tiffany the comedian and what part is Tiffany the person?" Who craps in their ex-boyfriends shoes and sends his entire family, kids and grandparents alike, a scandalous and raunchy video he made while cheating on her? Who spends an entire chapter referring to a handicapped man's "dead baby arm" and drool while simultaneously trying to speak like someone who has a disability? There were so many times I felt uncomfortable and I knew no one even knew what I was listening to. BUT STILL. It just made me so uncomfortable to hear her mock this man's voice for a WHOLE chapter. And if you are the slightest bit overweight, you are just fat and nasty in her eyes.
So... I am going to go with 2.5 stars on this. And I am still not even sure if that is the right rating. She made me bust out laughing SO much in this book; I can't lie about that. But she exposed so many UGLY parts about her as a person that I can't help but just feel bad. I am also one for profanity; I use it a lot, myself! But this book just got a little too trashy at times. A BOOK. I think in a stand-up act or a movie, a lot more of this book would have worked better. But this is a book and it should be polished and not tacky.I also learned that Tucker Max helped her co-write this book. I am not about that at all.
I LOVE her growth and I LOVE how authentic she is. She is totally herself and does NOT care what anyone thinks. I think we can all live our truths more than we do. She does. But the way she presented it works a LOT better in a stand-up act or a movie than in a book. I just can't get past the 'co-written memoir' aspect (with TUCKER MAX no less.....) full of classless and cruel humor in a book.