The Idiot Girl's Action Adventure Club

Laurie Notaro

"I chose The Idiot Girl's Action Adventure Club because on the cover it said, "National Bestseller"; and I thought other people must have loved it, therefore I will.

This book is sort of the adventures of a 20-something slacker as she sort of meanders endlessly through life and confrontations with ex-high school classmates or neighbors or family members.

The thing I had against this book was that it just sort of has all the same problems or plot or take on life; it's sort of this girl in her 20's who knows that she should have achieved more by now. She's sort of the slacker with the pointless job but who wants to feel superior to those people from her high school who do have jobs or are married by this point or who don't binge drink every night or who don't carry flasks of liquor in their purse. So I kind of got tired of her, I guess her angle on life, it sort of being the same - I don't know - immature attitude toward those people. I remember being that age, but it seemed like most of the characters in her book, not herself nor the others, are people who I feel I was at the time. Maybe that's the problem; they're so extreme. There's like the ex-cheerleaders, and then there's the drunk her. It's kind of, yeah, maybe that was my problem connecting with the novel; I just couldn't identify with anybody.

I definitely think someone who's 20 or 25 would find it funnier than me. You know, the binge drinking and not remembering you locked your keys in the truck of your car, high school reunions, that kind of thing. I'm 36, so it's already like too far behind me, I guess. I'd rate it like a two out of five, but it may be unfair to compare it to a novel since it is a collection of short stories."

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