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| Leave the Building Quickly: True Stories (P.S.) | 
 enlarge | Author: Cynthia Kaplan
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Category: Book
List Price: $13.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 47487
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 0060548525
Dewey Decimal Number: 920
EAN: 9780060548520
ASIN: 0060548525
Publication Date: May 1, 2008
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Product Description
Cynthia Kaplan, acclaimed author of Why I'm Like This, once again casts her gimlet eye upon the current state of her affairs. Also of your affairs, and some other people's affairs as well. Journey with her as she humiliates herself in a variety of locales and fearlessly takes on all the important issues of the day—including her family, intelligent design, Narnia, and New England's deer population. Leave the Building Quickly is a hilarious, moving, bitingly honest, take-no-prisoners incursion into the kind of real-life daily circumstances that inspire us to crouch in the linen closet at three in the morning. But that's okay because Kaplan's there, too. And she's brought snacks.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
 Extremely funny and smart May 8, 2007
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I bought this book because I had read the author's first book, "Why I'm Like
This." I'd loved that book, so to be honest, I wasn't sure her second book could measure up. I was not expecting much. But this book surpassed the first. It's funny without losing depth, smart but not cocky, and allows the reader to take a delicious peak into her life as a mother, wife, sister, actress, and writer. I highly recommend this to anyone looking for a great read.
Like listening to a friend May 22, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I loved Kaplan's first book, so when I saw this one on the front table at Borders, I bought it immediately. Kaplan is smart, sarcastic, neurotic, and ironic, but never mean-spirited; in fact her love for her parents, her brother, her in-laws, her husband, and her kids comes through clearly, even when she admits that she doesn't want to vacation with them!
Reading Kaplan's stories feels like a conversation with a good friend, but one who is honest and brave enough to say out loud what she's really thinking, and in the process makes you laugh so hard that your stomach hurts.
Hilarious Summer Read May 15, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I was so excited to see that Cynthia Kaplan had come out with a second book of essays. It was well worth the wait. Many passages were so hilarious that I found myself having to put the book down, finish laughing, and then re-read them. Kaplan updates her life since "Why I'm Like This", her incredible first book, but also delves into bigger societal issues such as God and religious extremism with deft humor and insight. This is a great summer read.
Buy this book... now April 8, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Cynthia Kaplan is funny. But that's almost besides the point. She's reflective and thoughtful. While you're laughing, in your mind's eye you can picture exactly what she's describing... and why... and how it applies to you and your life. Wise readers would buy everything that she writes. And read it many times.
 Terrible, self indulgent, trite July 27, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this book after reading a good review. It was terrible! One chapter explains how a close friend and mentor told her that the book wasn't ready for publication. She made fun of him for being so foolish - she should have listened!
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