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A review by a_chickletz
Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade by Patrick Dennis
4.0
HILARIOUS.
Oh gosh, it has been forever where I laughed and laughed over a book.
So, I have never seen the movie. When I hung out with a good friend of mine and we were discussing movies, she goes "Mame is one of my favorite movies, you need to see it". So I discovered it was a book and dove into it after finishing a couple of my other books.
I'm knocking it down a star because it was written in that time when people threw around certain words and had prejudices about certain races. Thankfully, the people who are nasty about that are the people that Mame goes off on/ridicules/drives up a wall. Wasn't a fan of seeing it in the book, but the main character wasn't a user or someone who purposed that kind of talk so I let it slide.
That aside, it is a FUNNY book. The summary on the goodreads page does it justice. It's just all these short stories that are linked to one another featuring a 10 year old and his mad-cap rich aunt. My favorite had to be the one when she adopts the war-relocated kids (which were kids from off the street) and their language and manner drives Patrick (who is in his twenties at that time) up a wall.
Luckily when I bought this book I bought the sequel as well (which I am reading) and I'm enjoying that too. Apparently it was left over/edited bits from the first book that tells about their trip around Europe. So far so good!
Oh gosh, it has been forever where I laughed and laughed over a book.
So, I have never seen the movie. When I hung out with a good friend of mine and we were discussing movies, she goes "Mame is one of my favorite movies, you need to see it". So I discovered it was a book and dove into it after finishing a couple of my other books.
I'm knocking it down a star because it was written in that time when people threw around certain words and had prejudices about certain races. Thankfully, the people who are nasty about that are the people that Mame goes off on/ridicules/drives up a wall. Wasn't a fan of seeing it in the book, but the main character wasn't a user or someone who purposed that kind of talk so I let it slide.
That aside, it is a FUNNY book. The summary on the goodreads page does it justice. It's just all these short stories that are linked to one another featuring a 10 year old and his mad-cap rich aunt. My favorite had to be the one when she adopts the war-relocated kids (which were kids from off the street) and their language and manner drives Patrick (who is in his twenties at that time) up a wall.
Luckily when I bought this book I bought the sequel as well (which I am reading) and I'm enjoying that too. Apparently it was left over/edited bits from the first book that tells about their trip around Europe. So far so good!