Everybody into the Pool True Tales (Audible Audio Edition) Beth Lisick Erin Bennett Audible Studios Books
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Beth Lisick started out as a homecoming princess with a Crisco-aided tan and a bad perm. And then everything changed. Plunging headlong into America's deepest subcultures, while keeping both feet firmly planted in her parents' Leave It to Beaver values, Lisick makes her adult home on the fringe of mainstream culture and finds it rich with paradox and humor. On the one hand, she lives in "Brokeley" with drug dealers and street gangs; on the other, she drives a station wagon with a baby seat in the back, makes her own chicken stock, and attends ladies' luncheons. How exactly did this suburban girl-next-door end up as one of San Francisco's foremost chroniclers of alternative culture? Lisick explains it all in her hilarious, irreverent, bestselling memoir, Everybody into the Pool.
Fans of David Sedaris and Sarah Vowell will relish Lisick's scathingly funny, smart, very real take on the effluvia of daily living. No matter what community she's exposing to the light, Lisick always hits the right chord.
Everybody into the Pool True Tales (Audible Audio Edition) Beth Lisick Erin Bennett Audible Studios Books
Ms. Lisick tells tales from her life, each chapter a new one. She seems to try to convey what a quirky, funny person she is. I found her choices instead to reflect a lazy person who chose the easiest way. She describes in some chapters jobs she's had, and it always seems she does as little as possible. Funny? I didn't think so. Actually, I was pretty bored, and after many chapters decided there were better things I could be reading and put it aside. I don't recommend this book.Product details
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Everybody into the Pool True Tales (Audible Audio Edition) Beth Lisick Erin Bennett Audible Studios Books Reviews
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Another good book to read by the light of the sun ... lots of laughs.
This book was boring. I expected it to be funny and entertaining from the many other reviews i read on it. Maybe it has to do something with being from San Fran. And if you're not, you don't get it. Anyway, it was a complete waste of my money and i will put it in the box for my next garage sale.
Such an amazing book!!
As I read Beth Lisick's EVERYBODY INTO THE POOL, I kept thinking of Lily Tomlin, the highest compliment I can give this comic writer. While I am not suggesting that Lisick imitates Tomlin or that her work is derivative-- humor by its very nature must be original-- this writer has that same for-the-most-part gentle, unhurtful wit about her, that is always abundant in Ms. Tomlin's humor, that makes you smile, even if you are the butt of her joke; and that's a rare talent indeed.
Two of my favorite chapters are "My Way Or the Bi-way" and "A Bed and a Breakfast." In the former chapter Lisick recounts her dabbling-- to perserve the metaphor of her book title-- into the lesbian/bi-sexual waters. Will she or won't she? The first time she finds herself naked in bed with another woman, she describes her experience as follows "There's no doubt I enjoyed myself, but it was similar to the way I enjoyed waterskiing for the first time or eating uni. I jumped in with a positive attitude, realizing it was an activity beloved by millions, but it didn't exactly push me over the edge." To use a phrase of her own, Ms. Lisick "soldiers on," meeting "full-on" women who appreciate "the art of the perfectly formed beer belly, the beauty of filthy hair, the decadence of a homespun knuckle tattoo." (I believe that would with a ball-point pen.) In the "Bed and Breakfast" segment, the writer's observations about this strange phenomenon that sprang up in the last years of the 20th century are as accurate as an arrow from an 's quiver "Sometime in the mid-eighties, the idea that you might want to pay to spend a weekend sharing a house with strangers in a contrived country setting somehow got shoved over the transom and fell into the ever-expanding, handwoven basket of bourgeoise leisure activities. . . I resented the fact that when I finally came down to breakfast in one of these places, the hostess had seemingly been standing by the oven, warming my mini-orange-cardamom muffins for hours until, upon hearing my footsteps, she raced across the parquet to grab the quilted calico hen to put them in before they cooled off." There are literally dozens of passages just as good as these.
Finally, you have to love a writer who makes a verb out of "tart" as in "to tart up."
Beth Lisick is a hip, 21st Century, female Dave Barry, except her stories are true life experiences. Most chapters are cutting edge, up-to-the-minute, uncensored episodes of "I Love Lucy." This upper middle class suburban gal definitely has experienced more than most . . . and it ain't just girl talk. Guys will love it too! Hope there is a sequel. Don't miss it!
Although the chapters of the book are stand alone short stories, by the time you finish the book, you feel like the author, Beth Lisick, is your long time buddy and confidant. The thing that makes her so lovable is her descriptions of her own semi flakey life experiences in her twenties trying to make a living with odd jobs like baking, handing out bananas in a banana suit, and getting wasted at a party waking up in some older man's home just in time to go to her mother's traditional Christmas luncheon while she's forgotten to comb her hair and reeks of alcohol.
And yet, she is extremely intelligent, competent and understands life's seedier people, druggies, the whole world of rock and roll bands and she lives in spooky neighborhoods, warehouses but seems to survive rather well with all of the freaks roaming around nearby.
We also get a fun view of her sexual experiences, not a graphic or erotic view, but a realistic and sometimes hilarious view of what sexual pressures are on regular kids growing up in the public schools.
The end result is that we have traveled through time with her from her first date as a 14 year old to having her first child and her hilarious descriptions of her baby compared to the perfect mother's baby.
I loved the book, it touched me and made me glad to know her. I'll be watching for her next.
Ms. Lisick tells tales from her life, each chapter a new one. She seems to try to convey what a quirky, funny person she is. I found her choices instead to reflect a lazy person who chose the easiest way. She describes in some chapters jobs she's had, and it always seems she does as little as possible. Funny? I didn't think so. Actually, I was pretty bored, and after many chapters decided there were better things I could be reading and put it aside. I don't recommend this book.
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