My Horizontal life by Chelsea Handler

Another book that I should have left alone. Clearly there is a wit in there but this collection of one night stands had nothing to offer. I found them dull and honestly boring. Her early life at home is funny but she lost it with the one night stands.
For example. She has a black boyfriend so after its over she has to get another black guy. OK, she drinks non stop and he is a tea totaler, nothing funny there, takes him home and realises he has a huge dick that she will not accomodate so they "make out" a bit and then sleep in her bed only to be woken up by her dad who came home early and the boyfriend has to make his escape out of the window. You see how dull I made it? Well at least you did not have to pay me to read this crap. For such a provocative book, it is sooooo straight and innocent and naive and dull. How the fuck did it make it to the NY times best seller list?

Honestly, I had to stop reading half way through. I just hope that it got better in the second half.

I remember nothing by Nora Ephron

She is the writter of "Sleepless in Seattle", "Harry met Sally" and "Sylkwood" so I thought, why not, let's read it and I did... mistake. Had I paid the $22 asking price rather then borrowing this book then I would be asking for my money back. It was too fluffy and wishy washy with no real substance to it. Apparently she writes blog posts for the Huffington post and this book seems to be a collections of blog posts with a couple of longer autobiographical pieces.

I think part of the reason for this book, apart from an easy $22, was that something made her realise her own mortality so the beggining and the end of the book are about being old, people dropping off, lists and some pet hates. It is a shame she did not continue talking about her career as a journalist other then to say how great things were in those days but avoid discussing todays environment in more detail other then a couple of off the cuff comments that apparently contradict some stuff she has written.

Anyway, altogether a disspointing read so glad it was only 137 pages with lots of white space and it only wasted a few hours.