I'm the One That I Want

Margaret Cho is the best. She (and this book) are inspirational to anyone who has ever felt like they don't fit in.

Though the writing is uneven and sometimes sloppy, this book is, to my mind, an American classic. In terms of Cho's conflicts with self-image, substance abuse, cultural questions and tensions between assimilation, integration, and "selling out", celebrity and its corrosive effects, and the pursuit of happiness, I consider this to be, in many ways, the "great American novel." (Non-fiction though...more

Though the writing is uneven and sometimes sloppy, this book is, to my mind, an American classic. In terms of Cho's conflicts with self-image, substance abuse, cultural questions and tensions between assimilation, integration, and "selling out", celebrity and its corrosive effects, and the pursuit of happiness, I consider this to be, in many ways, the "great American novel." (Non-fiction though it is.) With a better ghost writer, this book could truly have been a masterpiece of the times. As it is, though, I highly recommend it to anyone with interests in the conflicts of culture, family, celebrity, self-loathing, and ongoing struggles for self-realization in a super-superficial part of an oft superficial culture.   hide

Self esteem booster! Her story is wonderful.