- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd (7 April 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 000723225X
- ISBN-13: 978-0007232253
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 747,928 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Disgustingly, outrageously, intolerably funny. I am in love with Linda Robertson.' Ian Sansom 'A hilarious and bittersweet comedy about a woman with the worst boyfriend on earth.' Jenny Colgan 'Likening Robertson's quirky and wonderfully funny memoir, What Rhymes with Bastard? to an edgy Bridget Jones certainly gives you a flavor of the book!and much, much funnier - than Helen Fielding's books!this memoir is a true delight.' Sunday Times 'Picks for 2008'
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'It's a clever inversion of the Bridget Jones myth.'
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Some books are meant to be hogged all in one sitting, while others must be savored, doled out a few pages at a time. Linda Robertson's "What Rhymes with Bastard?" might fit in both categories. My wife picked it up to take a look when it arrived and did not move, speak, or respond to external stimuli until she finished the book later in the day. I've taken the opposite approach: parsimoniously granting myself a chapter at a time, and often flipping back to re-read. It isn't always easy to re-read, though: at times, the book tells some uncomfortable and even painful stories -- even terribly painful -- but thanks to the author's powerful voice, the book is extremely funny throughout in a way, perhaps, that only painful things can be. [caution: pedantic remark ahead] I think it's a great addition to the contemporary genre of feminine/ist/ish memoir and an inheritor of the long tradition of Anglo-American travel narratives (her adventures among the dot-com bubbleheads of California reminded me of the funniest parts of Fanny Trollope's The Domestic Manners of the Americans).
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Great book made me laugh out loud - kind of tragi comic englishwoman adrift in america with a not particularly reliable husband that she has devoted her life to unsucessfully moulding..very funny and off the wall have recommended it all my mates ..look out for the nuts parents bits.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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This is a seriously funny book - some of the scenes are properly hilarious and it made me laugh out loud loads. But at the same time there are some really touching moments and I couldnt believe how frank Linda Robertson is - she is totally up front about stuff that most of us wouldnt tell anyone about, let alone put in a book. This isnt your average chick-lit, she comes across as totally honest and really intelligent too. I'm planning to check out her music now.
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arghhhhh
This book has been on my wish list for ages,i was so looking forward to reading it,but i have never been so let down or annoyed by a book in my life! The writing style is awful! Read more
Published 13 months ago by Laura
Disappointing
I also read an extract of this in a Sunday paper, which i enjoyed and so bought the book. The extract (the first couple of pages of the book) was the best bit, afterwhich this was... Read more
Published on 13 Jun 2008 by Iorek
Brilliant!
A funny, well-observed and moving account of Linda's terrible marriage and her attempts to earn a living on the edge of the weirder side of American life in San Francisco.
Published on 5 May 2008 by A reader
Not your average chick lit!
Very funny, with a quirky readable style that constantly delights you with a capricious turn of phrase or astute comment. Read more
Published on 12 April 2008 by Ben Tan
Superb book
This is a fantastic book! It had me alternately laughing and crying all the way through and was written with a quirky style that is so endearing and quite unlike any other writer. Read more
Published on 12 April 2008 by Ms. J. Mellor
Oh my goodness!
If you think your boyfriend is a nightmare then you should read this and you'll realise things could be much much worse... Read more
Published on 11 April 2008 by Yvonne
Just Not Funny
Bought this book because of a rave review I read in the Books section of a Sunday paper. I have never felt so let down by a reviewer since buying' A Year in the Merde'. Read more
Published on 11 April 2008 by L. W. of Nottingham
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