Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I confess I had never heard of Lena Dunham before now; her book was recommended to me as a 'hilarious collection of personal essays' by someone who knows I love that kind of writing. So I went into this expecting great things from the writing itself, as well as great stories from someone who publishers apparently felt had something to say. Where do you even start to describe the appalling narcissism that is this book? I realize that memoir, by its very nature, requires a fair amount of navel-gazing. But this is so self indulgent, so arrogant in its assumption that anyone could possibly care about such meaningless insights as 'dieting is hard -- here, look at what I ate for a couple of weeks' that it's hard to feel sorry for the author even when she's telling us something more substantive and painful, like 'I didn't realize I was raped because I was so drunk and high I stupidly took a guy I hated home with me rather than admit that I thought he was someone else.' After a couple dozen pages, I became curious about this author, about why she was such a 'big deal' that she could get away with writing such garbage. And I saw that she had made her mark in television and a couple of films. Won a few awards. Did so at a young age. And...? Nope. That's it. At the ripe old age of 28 she had 'learned' enough and accomplished enough that readers would certainly be wowed by admissions that she checked out her little sister's vagina while they were playing, or that she routinely abused drugs and alcohol and felt no shame about sleeping with anyone and everyone. My advice, young Lena? Don't write another word about yourself for twenty-eight more years. Grow up. Think about other people as something besides bit players in The Lena Show. Learn how to respect yourself by respecting the people around you (instead of the other way around, since that's clearly not working). And for heaven's sake, dedicate what is obviously a gift for the written word to something more worthwhile than what you've produced so far. You get one life. "Learn" something from yours.