Let's Be Less Stupid
An Attempt to Maintain My Mental Faculties
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Patricia Marx
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Patricia Marx
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Former SNL writer and The New Yorker staffer Patty Marx employs the weapon she wields best - not that weapon; Patty believes in gun control. Instead she uses her sharp-edged humor to tackle the most difficult facet of aging: the mind's decline. From forgetting her brother-in-law's name while he was wearing a nametag to hanging up the phone to look for her phone, Marx confesses to her failures and not only to make you feel better about yourself.
In Let's Be Less Stupid, Patty addresses troubling conundrums, such as: If there are more neural connections in your brain than stars in the Milky Way, why did you put the butter dish in your nightstand drawer? Patty's quest to get smarter includes just about everything: learning Cherokee, popping pills (not the good kind), and listening to - who's the guy who didn't write dum de de dum, but the other one?
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Snarky and repetitive
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
Marx's humor is more suited to a shorter format and seems strained and repetitive in this book.
Would you ever listen to anything by Patricia Marx again?
no
How did the narrator detract from the book?
Her humor is so obvious it was like listening to a teenager.
You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
The subject matter interested me
Any additional comments?
Not hating but I wouldn't recommend anyone read this book. That being said I'm sure some will love it.
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