mothlight reviewed My horizontal life by Chelsea Handler
Review of 'My horizontal life' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
Having read one of her books now, I don't feel the need to read any more of them. I have nothing against a book recounting efforts to get laid (repeatedly), just, it wasn't all that great. Occasional sections were funny but overall the book wasn't all that funny. The writing was competent but nothing amazing. Chelsea and her friends just don't seem like anybody I would be all that interested in hanging out with. And Chelsea seems to be strongly contemptuous of most of the men with whom she sleeps, which adds a funny taste to the book. I'm not sure how much is fiction and how much is biography, but what is there isn't all that appealing. Maybe it was a bit like a one night stand, I feel a little dirty for having read it, it was a little titillating but that's in the past and I can …
Having read one of her books now, I don't feel the need to read any more of them. I have nothing against a book recounting efforts to get laid (repeatedly), just, it wasn't all that great. Occasional sections were funny but overall the book wasn't all that funny. The writing was competent but nothing amazing. Chelsea and her friends just don't seem like anybody I would be all that interested in hanging out with. And Chelsea seems to be strongly contemptuous of most of the men with whom she sleeps, which adds a funny taste to the book. I'm not sure how much is fiction and how much is biography, but what is there isn't all that appealing. Maybe it was a bit like a one night stand, I feel a little dirty for having read it, it was a little titillating but that's in the past and I can move onto something better now.
