Let's Pretend This Never Happened

Jenny Lawson

Apr 2012 · Sold by Penguin

About this ebook

The #1 New York Times bestselling (mostly true) memoir from the hilarious author of Furiously Happy.

“Gaspingly funny and wonderfully inappropriate.”—O, The Oprah Magazine

When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it.

In the irreverent Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson’s long-suffering husband and sweet daughter help her uncover the surprising discovery that the most terribly human moments—the ones we want to pretend never happened—are the very same moments that make us the people we are today. For every intellectual misfit who thought they were the only ones to think the things that Lawson dares to say out loud, this is a poignant and hysterical look at the dark, disturbing, yet wonderful moments of our lives.

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Ratings and reviews

Badly written. There's a fine line between "creative writing" and "unnecessarily convoluted, nonsensical drivel" and this author crosses that line incessantly, to the point where the simplest sentences are confusing and hard to read. If you remove the excess word-vomit stuffed into this "memoir", it would be about 1/4 of its current length. I can't believe I paid for this. More fool I.

I don't like to give low star counts just because I didn't personally care for a book, but I didn't finish it. I got a chuckle or two out of the portion I read (~35%) but a lot of the humor felt forced and repetitive to me. That said, I imagine that this book will resonate with many and make them laugh out loud. I did really like the fact that real photos were included. They added a lot to the stories and humor. I hope that others enjoy the book more than I did!

Half way through the book I grew bored of the anecdotes. It was like listening to someone who thinks they're hilarious but are instead just mildly amusing.

About the author

Known for her sardonic wit and her hysterically skewed outlook on life, Jenny Lawson has made millions of people question their own sanity, as they found themselves admitting that they, too, often wondered why Jesus wasn’t classified as a zombie, or laughed to the point of bladder failure when she accidentally forgot that she mailed herself a cobra. Lawson’s blog (TheBloggess.com) is award-winning and extremely popular, and she is considered one of the funniest writers of our generation by at least three or four people.