A review by ela_lee_
So Close to Being the Sh*t, Y’all Don’t Even Know by Retta
3.0
Welp…This is the first time I’ve ever read someone’s autobiography and liked them LESS afterwards. My first red flag was an entire chapter listing her favorite purse brands and telling us about the time she dropped $15,000 on a bag. She straight up encourages people to splurge on materialistic items claiming you’ll regret it if you don’t. Overall, I found her to be incredibly wasteful, greedy, and consumerist. It also seems like she never grew out of her high school Mean Girls phase. Retta was still fighting people in college? Throwing drinks and causing scenes at parties and continues to laugh about it? That’s not funny…it’s embarrassing.
I can’t even count how many names were dropped in this book; she idolizes celebrities to a fault and is completely obsessed with the idea of Hollywood. (Great, I guess she’s in the right place.) I was just hoping for something deeper. If anything, I was more curious about her African upbringing and more stories about how she got started.
I am glad I listened to the audiobook instead of reading, because most of the funny parts come from the inflection and drama in her voice that I imagine didn’t translate on paper. I give the book 3 stars since it wasn’t slow to read, but I’d give her personality 2 stars.
I can’t even count how many names were dropped in this book; she idolizes celebrities to a fault and is completely obsessed with the idea of Hollywood. (Great, I guess she’s in the right place.) I was just hoping for something deeper. If anything, I was more curious about her African upbringing and more stories about how she got started.
I am glad I listened to the audiobook instead of reading, because most of the funny parts come from the inflection and drama in her voice that I imagine didn’t translate on paper. I give the book 3 stars since it wasn’t slow to read, but I’d give her personality 2 stars.