Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me

I got this after literally rolling on the floor listening to "Vodka, it's Chelsea." While this was kinda of funny, it just wasn't as good. Could be cause it is based entirely on pranks she pulls rather than her self-deprecating humor that was so funny.

First off let me say I am (or rather was) a huge Chelsea fan! When she is on her A game she is possibly the funniest woman alive. Her previous 3 books have had me laughing out loud and sharing them with all my girlfriends.
This book however is simply a sad attempt at a money grab. It appears as though Chelsea had nothing to do with this book, yet has shamelessly plastered her name and image all over it. Granted the stories are about her (for the most part) but are written by others poorly attempting to emulate her style. Its truly terrible and they should all be ashamed. *Spoiler Alert* One chapter is ‘written by’ Chunk… Yes Chunk. Her dog. Need I say more?
I have never been more annoyed over the complete waste of a credit! I warn you, if you are hoping for classic Chelsea, skip this and just re-enjoy one of her old books.

I listened to this without first reading other reviews, because Chelsea Handler makes me laugh on a nightly basis. Now reading them, I don't understand other reviewers saying, "I love her, but reading this makes me realize that she's cruel/immature/mean..." Have you never seen her?

I think most people don't have friendships that are so obnoxiously immature on the outside. I think that's why they don't "get it." My core group of friends/family say and do crazy things to each other constantly in order to get a laugh. If you sat in a room with my best friend and I, you'd think we hated each other by the way we talk sometimes. However, the people in my world would do ANYTHING for me, and I for them. There isn't one person in this book that doesn't say that very thing about her.

If you don't get why people do obnoxious things to their friends, this book isn't for you... but then again, I don't know why you'd read it in the first place. If you can watch Chelsea Handler's show and not get that she's obnoxious and bitchy, you're missing something. This book answers the question, "I wonder how bitchy she really can be," answer being, "A LOT." It's college frat boy humor... she's a jackass boy with breasts.

I thought this book was funnier than VODKA... I actually didn't like that one at all. Having said that, I didn't think every narrator was great, but I did like hearing each voice separately. I do think that Chelsea Handler should have narrated her own part. Hearing other voices, especially those you "know" (Heather McDonald, Josh Wolf, Roy Handler) makes it weird when someone is else is reading her part. There are also musical transitions separating each chapter that I thought were weird and out of place.

The energy from some of the narrators was a little dead. It felt as if they had been reading for hours, and they were at the very end and restless.

It would have been so much better if Chelsea Handler could have read her parts. Everybody else read their own parts. Chelsea Handler has such a nice voice...

No. I think I'll just have to pay more attention to the reviews before i purchase.

I like that the stories were told by the people who wrote it, and by the people the events happened to. It was nice that they were able to mimic the sounds of surprise or the accents spoken. The pauses were accurate and done in a way that I would not have been able to imagine reading on my own.

See above for dislikes.

The book was entertaining. It made me giggle on the inside often. It was just evident that none of these people are used to writing in book format. It was so poorly written, that even the decent performances couldn't save it. It was entertaining and worth a listen if it is free.

The characters in all of Handler's previous books finally become real and take the reins in this book.

Chelsea graciously replies to each story with her own rebuttal in the only way she knows how: delightfully insulting.

Chelsea is able to bring those around her into her schemes to make them more realistic. She convinces can take somebody's weakness and exploit it to the brink of destruction. She had an OCD colleague convinced that her employee was becoming her adoptive son, living with her, going on vacations with her, not paying rent... but it was never true. This wouldn't bother most people, but Chelsea knew an OCD wouldn't be able to take it. Brilliant.

Everything. I'd love to be Chelsea's friend.

I loved 'Vodka' and I have to compare the laugh-out-loud humor of that book to this one, which offers just a few smiles. And these aren't worth wading through all the cruel pranks that are reported with no real explanation of why these people are Chelsea's 'friends' except that they're on the payroll. I tried hard to like this, but my mood and morale were deteriorating from all the pointless profanity, slimy images, and unchallenging, childish humor.

Nothing at all. These are horrible stories about practical jokes that are way to over the top for my taste. I do think she if funny but the things she does to the people in her life are horrible and cruel and I guess that is where I draw the line of funny.

No, not at all but will just be more careful in the future about reading others reviews.

No, I could not even finish it. It made me want my money back for purchasing it.

I had to stop listening to it because it was sickening to hear how horribly violating Chelsea is to her friends, family, and coworkers. I did not find anything she does to people she knows funny or even interesting. The only reason I purchased it was because several people I know say that she is "hilarious"...I did not find anything about her even remotely funny.

It was really sad to hear what people closest to her are willing to tolerate just to be near her or associated with her in anyway. It was disgusting. I regret to have wasted my money on this very sad tale of how she violates others and gets away with it, legally and otherwise. I hope that at the very least, the royalties for this "piece" goes to her victims and none to her.

I will never recommend anything about her to anyone other than those who want to study people with deviant behaviors.

I adore Chelsea Handler...on TV anyway. What a dissapointment. After I downloaded it, a friend said she wished she'd warned me. She said (and she was right) this is a poor account of immature mean spirited acts supposedly by CH. It doesn't roll out as funny or interesting...just kinda mean. I just kept saying, "wow, what an uncool thing to do to someone." Why would you want a book like this to come out? Sorry, Chels...I would've bought anything from you...not now. This book sort of weirded me out.

Wow, she is a hoot.. I'm a fan so I really thought it was funny, I loved hearing all the stories.. It was much better than I expected considering all the poor reviews. I liked it a lot!