I hate to write a negative review, but frankly speaking, “Life as I blow it” was a disappointment. Once I started this book, I couldn't stop, I really wanted it to get better, or to get to the end of it. I am into comic books, very much so. I love Chelsea Handler, and Sarah Colonna is a writer and executive producer on “Chelsea Lately”, so I was expecting hilariousness galore.
This is a comic book for adults, i.e. there is a lot of talk about drinking, drugs and [bad] sex. Most of the stories are repetitive and not all that amusing, and would have probably be better translated to the TV-show, rather than being a published literary work. Where I could identify with Chelsea Handler, with some of the stories in her books, I found it really difficult to identify with Colonna. I do identify with being a young person who isn't ready to grow up and be serious, but the way Colonna describes the process, the trying to grow up and then the slump back to behaving like a sex-hungry teenager, it just got a bit boring. I felt I was reading the same story over and over again. I have to admit, I did smile broadly a few times, and some of the stories (especially towards the end) are written better, the storyline and the language are evolving a bit by the end of the book, and the stories become mildly amusing, for that I think the book deserves another star.
Verdict: it’s not that hilarious. It will probably appeal to die-hard Chelsea Handler’s fans, but I doubt you will finish the Colonna book otherwise.
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