- Hardcover: 241 pages
- Publisher: Ebury Press; 1st Edition edition (28 Sep 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0091886627
- ISBN-13: 978-0091886622
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.7 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 129,306 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Rachel Johnson, The Spectator
'It drips with juice. It is tear-jerkingly funny, tender, mischievous and utterly brilliant.'
Lynn Barber, The Telegraph
'completely jaw-dropping'
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
In this fast and furious book the comedian Ruby Wax bares her all. Abusive parents who contined abusing until she was way into late adulthood, lead her to rebel and shaped the ascerbic wit for which she's justifiably famous. With the help of her clearly loving and patient husband, three children and good friends, combined with her own intelligence she managed to emerge from the dark tunnel. A brilliant and in my view very brave description of someone who has known severe depression and breakdown and managed to overcome it. It is however written in such an intense style - for some readers it might just be a little too close to home. A very good read, but I would have liked to discover more about her professional life - but maybe that will come in a different book, for which there is definitely room ...
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Ruby Wax has proved herself a wonderfully talented writer as she has done the nearly impossible by turning her own life's story into a book that's at once touching, bravely honest, sincere, funny and ENTERTAINING without a smidge of sentimentality. (Well, maybe just a smidge, the last page did bring on the tears.) Reading this book was like eating a Hershey's Special Dark chocolate bar, bittersweet and you can't get enough of it! In spite of all the bitter, difficult times, Ruby gets through it, heading all the time for the sweet, and "How sweet it is!"
YOU GO GIRL! I highly recommend this book. It's an easy read. It'll touch you heart...
YOU GO GIRL! I highly recommend this book. It's an easy read. It'll touch you heart...
Format:Hardcover
I bought this book for research, as I needed to read the chapter on the Royal Shakespeare Company. I ended up reading the whole book, because it's transfixingly good and very funny and creative, while being searingly honest at the same time.
Carrie Fisher's note on the back of the book says, "If David Sedaris and Whoopi Goldberg had an illegitimate child it would be Ruby and from what I read about her family they would have made better parents."
It's really an extraordinary journey that Ruby has been on (her parents had serious psychological problems). But the book is super entertaining and funny. It doesn't read like a humdrum memoir at all -- it's always interesting and easy to read. Ruby knows how to pack a world of information into just a few words, so what you get is almost a kind of Reader's Digest version -- and a sidesplittingly funny one at that -- of her life, learnings, and insight.
One of the best chapters is about fame -- fantastic insight about the superfamous from someone who has interviewed them all, and also insight from the point of view of her own seduction by fame and attention. Who knew that Ruby Wax was a wise woman?
Carrie Fisher's note on the back of the book says, "If David Sedaris and Whoopi Goldberg had an illegitimate child it would be Ruby and from what I read about her family they would have made better parents."
It's really an extraordinary journey that Ruby has been on (her parents had serious psychological problems). But the book is super entertaining and funny. It doesn't read like a humdrum memoir at all -- it's always interesting and easy to read. Ruby knows how to pack a world of information into just a few words, so what you get is almost a kind of Reader's Digest version -- and a sidesplittingly funny one at that -- of her life, learnings, and insight.
One of the best chapters is about fame -- fantastic insight about the superfamous from someone who has interviewed them all, and also insight from the point of view of her own seduction by fame and attention. Who knew that Ruby Wax was a wise woman?
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Just scratching the surface
I was really disappointed by this book. It felt like Ruby was holding so much back and using her amazing sense of humour to paper over the cracks (she even admitted this was her... Read more
Published on 3 Dec 2007 by Hayles
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Utterly honest,Painful beyond belief!
I was not prepared for the maelstrom into which I would be engulfed upon reading the first page of this book. Read more
Published on 24 July 2003 by Victoria L. Crowly
Everyone should read this book!!! Go on....buy it now!
It's a much exhausted expression - but literally in this case I could not put it down. My admiration for the woman was reignited and extended by her delightful recent appearance... Read more
Published on 28 Mar 2003
Good Read
Once this book is opened you cannot close it. It is easy to read and keeps the reader wanting more. Ruby's openess and vulnerabilities are refreshing. Read more
Published on 28 Mar 2003
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