• Everybody into the Pool

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  • By: Beth Lisick
  • Narrated by: Erin Bennett
  • Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
  • 3.9 out of 5 stars (49 ratings)

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Everybody into the Pool

By: Beth Lisick
Narrated by: Erin Bennett
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Publisher's summary

Beth Lisick started out as a homecoming princess with a Crisco-aided tan and a bad perm. And then everything changed. Plunging headlong into America's deepest subcultures, while keeping both feet firmly planted in her parents' Leave It to Beaver values, Lisick makes her adult home on the fringe of mainstream culture and finds it rich with paradox and humor. On the one hand, she lives in "Brokeley" with drug dealers and street gangs; on the other, she drives a station wagon with a baby seat in the back, makes her own chicken stock, and attends ladies' luncheons. How exactly did this suburban girl-next-door end up as one of San Francisco's foremost chroniclers of alternative culture? Lisick explains it all in her hilarious, irreverent, bestselling memoir, Everybody into the Pool.

Fans of David Sedaris and Sarah Vowell will relish Lisick's scathingly funny, smart, very real take on the effluvia of daily living. No matter what community she's exposing to the light, Lisick always hits the right chord.

©2005 Beth Lisick (P)2014 Audible, Inc.

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Fun book!

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I had a loooong road trip to make and (although this only got me through the first half of the trip) this was a great book to have! It kept me awake, and laughing at times.

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Great sense of humor

So entertaining and lol funny. Beware if you don't like 4-letter words, references to sex (gay & hetero),and hysterically funny but
disparaging comments about babies. Super enjoyable.

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Cringeworthy

While this started out as a jaunty and breezy book, after a few chapters it became difficult to continue listening. It seems to try to be funny, but isn't. The author seems proud of her anti-social point of view. She is welcome to that, but it's hard to find the entertainment value in it. I spot listened to brief passages in the second half of the book, hoping things might improve, but they only got worse.

The promotional material for this book suggested it would be a good pick for fans of David Sedaris. Not a chance. Whereas he is nuanced, hilarious, and extremely entertaining, this author's work is boring and perverse (and not in a fun way).

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hilarious

hilarious, loved it funny stories well written , narration was also easy to listen to

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Pretty good Gen-X memoir/essays.

Deep, shallow, entertaining.

Great narration as an audiobook.

I could have done without the Bi-Erasure chapter (Proudly bisexual, despite not being attracted to women, until she realizes she is just straight).

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