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Author: Cynthia Kaplan
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

13 reviews
Sales Rank: 272703

Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.7

ISBN: 0060548525
Dewey Decimal Number: 920
EAN: 9780060548520
ASIN: 0060548525

Publication Date: May 1, 2008
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Condition: Visible shelf wear -- may have some notes/markings on pages

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description

Cynthia Kaplan, acclaimed author of Why I'm Like This, once again casts her gimlet eye upon the current state of her affairs. Also of your affairs, and some other people's affairs as well. Journey with her as she humiliates herself in a variety of locales and fearlessly takes on all the important issues of the day—including her family, intelligent design, Narnia, and New England's deer population.

Leave the Building Quickly is a hilarious, moving, bitingly honest, take-no-prisoners incursion into the kind of real-life daily circumstances that inspire us to crouch in the linen closet at three in the morning. But that's okay because Kaplan's there, too. And she's brought snacks.

Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars

Great laugh, quick read, nice pick-me-up, relatable September 16, 2008
I loved this book. I thought it was witty and funny and a great read to relax with and just enjoy. I wish it were longer.. I didn't want to finish it.

1 out of 5 stars

Terrible, self indulgent, trite July 27, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I bought this book after reading a good review. It was terrible! One chapter explains how a close friend and mentor told her that the book wasn't ready for publication. She made fun of him for being so foolish - she should have listened!

3 out of 5 stars

If you like essays... July 6, 2008
This is a book of essays (unlike a novel, which I thought it was when I bought it). But, I read it as I had already bought it. As essays, they are amusing; not hilarious or funny as is described elsewhere, but just amusing. They do not have much substance; they did not make me think, or change my mind, or do anything except amuse me. If that's all you want, by all means, buy this. But do not expect to be greatly enlightened or have your thinking changed; Plato or Machiavelli are much better authors for those purposes.

In short, if you like essays about nothing in particular, you might want to consider this book. If you're expecting something else, forget it.

5 out of 5 stars

Laugh out loud funny! June 28, 2008
Very easy and quick read. I was laughing out loud the whole time. All the things you thought only you were thinking, wrong- Cynthia Kaplan is too!

2 out of 5 stars

Disappointed June 18, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful

I read many titles steeped in humor but this just failed to impress me. I didn't get very far into it before I made my decision to discontinue my time with it. I've never read Kaplan before and doubt I will again. She attempts to write in a self-deprecating manner like other humor authors, but for me, it failed to have the same effect. I just didn't think she was that likable. Her stories failed to capture my interest. There were a few notable points, but they didn't arouse laughter in me as I was expecting.
I suppose if you're in the mood for a few stories from a mostly negative-minded Mother, then this book is for you.

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