• I Hate Everyone...Starting With Me

  • By: Joan Rivers
  • Narrated by: Joan Rivers
  • Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (448 ratings)

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I Hate Everyone...Starting With Me

By: Joan Rivers
Narrated by: Joan Rivers
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Publisher's summary

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” (Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1850)

“How do I hate thee? How much time do you have?” (Joan Rivers, here, about two-ish)

Joan Rivers is a groundbreaking, award-winning, internationally renowned entertainment goddess. She’s also opinionated - especially when it comes to people she hates. Like people who think giving birth is a unique achievement. Or well-adjusted - a.k.a. boring - ex-child stars who don’t even have a decent addiction.

With all of her diverse experiences, it stands to reason that Joan has seen, done, said, and heard a lot of hateful things. Thank god, she took notes.

Here - uncensored and totally uninhibited - she give the best of her worst to First Ladies, closet cases, hypocrites, Hollywood, feminists, and overrated historical figures. And even when letting herself have it, Joan doesn’t hold back in this honest, unabashedly hilarious love letter to the hater in all of us.

©2012 Joan Rivers (P)2012 Penguin Audio

Critic reviews

"More punch lines per paragraph than any book I’ve read in years." (The New York Times)

"Often hilarious, often shocking, totally politically incorrect." (Liz Smith)

"She holds nothing back." (The Washington Post)

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Totally Honest and Brave

Would you listen to I Hate Everyone...Starting With Me again? Why?

It makes me laugh

What was one of the most memorable moments of I Hate Everyone...Starting With Me?

her take down of rich women with everything "whining" about their "sadness"

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So disappointing I could cry

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Not funny, just old and tired. I love her shows shes witty and smart and in the now. This book might as well be telling mother in law jokes. Sad and embarrassing. I didn't even finish the book. I was really looking forward to it as well. Wasted my money don't waste yours.

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The New Queen of Mean

If you dislike Joan Rivers, you'll hate this book. Otherwise, it feels like a romp through a card catalog of her life's work, in which she skewers just about every sacred cow you can imagine, up to and including the abuses of modern technology. It seems rare to hear Joan Rivers without a live audience, but this is an energetic read through a dense thicket of barbed observations that leave no one unscathed. Potty mouth? You bet. On target? Flawlessly.

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Brilliant

Would you consider the audio edition of I Hate Everyone...Starting With Me to be better than the print version?

Don't know, not having read it

Who was your favorite character and why?

Why Joan of course

Which scene was your favorite?

There are no "scenes", but I loved each and every chapter

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Laugh, Joan made me laugh out loud, several times, felt a bit silly, but there was no one to see me

Any additional comments?

I just loved this audio book, Joan Rivers is one of the very few comedians I enjoy. I even watch a show about fashion only because she is the star.
I can't wait for the next book

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Sadly dissapointing, wish I could get a refund

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I've long been a fan of Joan Rivers. Her wit and humor are like no one else but this book is just a bitter diatribe of disapointment. From the very beginning it spews sadness and hatred. There is a fine line between being funny and bitterness, this book crosses it repeatedly. Old stale jokes from the 60's that were once funny are now just sad and fill the book from beginning to end. I couldn't even finish it I was so depressed. You would think someone with as much success in her life would be happier.....go figure.

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Laugh a minute

She is brilliant. She takes on everything! From Hollywood to herself to babies to death.
Just remember, it's humour. So laugh!

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It was so perfect until ...

I was ready to write a melting love letter to this book and its author-until I find how much had been left out!
Can we talk here?
Where was the part with the funny nicknames for all our 50 states? Where were some of the other hilarious jokes?
What was there was excellent. I loved it to death. I've loved Joan Rivers since the early '80s when she subbef for Johnny Carson, and appeared on Hollywood Squares. What a hoot.
solid 4 out of 5, should have been 5 but for the missing material.

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I hate Joan Rivers

What disappointed you about I Hate Everyone...Starting With Me?

It is very vulgar, very rude, very hateful. I thought she's a comedian, but there was nothing to laugh about her book. I turned it off after 15 minutes. A waste of money.

Has I Hate Everyone...Starting With Me turned you off from other books in this genre?

I will be much more careful.

Would you be willing to try another one of Joan Rivers’s performances?

No thanks

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

All the above.

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Gone too soon and never forgotten

I missed Joan every day since 2016, no one could have put our American nightmare into perspective like Joan.

Joan still had another 150 years in her if it weren’t for that Dr.

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I hate that Joan Rivers was seriously underrated.

During these crazy times I really missed Joan Rivers, I missed her voice. She is charming and witty and so damn rude... I wish she was alive enough to narrate her opinions on the past American administration. Since she is no longer with us I found solice in her crude humor and stylish grace. I miss you Joan Rivers.

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