Idiot: Essays

I LOVED this book. It was funny, raw and just so captivating. I really love how she can relive her hardships on paper and still laugh about them. It’s a great read.

Like I’m quite sure many of her readers did, I first stumbled upon Laura Clery on YouTube. I thought her quirky, silly, out-there content about her pregnancy with Alfie was inspired and hilarious. I was intrigued by her relationship with her British husband. But I did not know about this book until I saw a sketch she did that she “liberated” from the pages of Idiot: her initial meeting with her Englishman and their ever-so-brilliant discussion of hydration. I’d gathered that she had overcome addiction, but I did not know how highly she valued her sobriety until watching that clip, which was followed by a plug for the book. I ordered Idiot that day.This memoir has a delightfully candid tone, enriched by Laura Clery’s off-beat comedy, but it is also dead serious as it reflects on the horrendously difficult thing getting and remaining sober is for people whose addictive tendencies leave them vulnerable to full-on dependence. As a person whose family tree has numerous alcoholics on it, I found myself supporting Laura’s journey with something like pride. Her success is without a doubt due to her strong, determined character, but I am glad this book contains many stories in which friends and family help her in her progress toward health.This memoir was fun to read, inspiring, and interesting. I appreciate the author’s talent for self-written comedy, and I also appreciate her inward-looking eye. She seeks to learn the whys of her addictive past even as she moves through her more rewarding and even-keeled present life.P.S. If you haven’t seen the October 2020 videos regarding brain scans and healing the brain, I’d urge you to view them. No doubt these experiences will figure in the next installment of her autobiography. I can’t wait.

I want to begin this by saying that I am, at best, a casual fan. I’ve seen some of her videos but don’t follow her or anything. I don’t say that as a slight, only so you can understand that it wasn’t like I bought this because I was a superfan. (I was bored in quarantine and read an excerpt.)I had also seen other reviews where people said they read it in one sitting. I have two small kids and I wake up super early. The only time I have to myself is about from 7:30 to 9. I thought “no way am I gonna stay up late reading this book.” I’ll be damned if I didn’t, though. Her writing is engaging and lively. She’s a terrific storyteller— Honest and thoughtful without being moralizing. You get the sense this is a person who has spent a lot of time in self-reflection. It reminds me a lot of Rob Lowe‘s autobiography (which is also excellent).My biggest takeaway is that this is a woman who’s fearless, hard-working, and lucky. You get the sense she’s well aware of all of that. Great book.

Things I liked about this book Laura has a lot of uplifting and life changing things that happened in her life but it all started with her trying to get sober. There are a lot of positive sayings ,quotes and paragraphs that opened my eyes to a more positive outlook that I could incorporate into my own life. It was probably a year or two when I seen Laura on Facebook it was her St.Paddys day skit she's funny and cute and so is her husband and man does her baby boy have her eyes.

I thought at first, oh no, a boring book somebody wrote of themselves but its more like a story with a really good plot. You get taken on this journey and the end result has you feeling warm and smiley. It's funny. It's dark but funny dark and I love that because that's real to me. I've never enjoyed reading about somebody's life like I did reading Laura's. What a rollercoaster. There were times that made me reflect deeply because as a fellow person whose struggled with addiction it was refreshing to read such a good perspective on mental health and surviving yourself. Finding identity and happiness. And not to forget, it's funny. You could almost call it a tale, where instead of the the tragic character who always dies a sad way, wins in the end and lives happily ever after. Its refreshing to read content that's genuine.. hard to find these days.. Thank you for sharing your story. Looking forward to reading the one about motherhood.

First and foremost, I love Laura. She is such an inspiration for what life can be if you put your best foot forward, keep your head held high and focus on positive people and feelings. ❤As for the book, this is truly a masterpiece!I'm a guy so naturally I have a hard time crying... this book changed that. I've NEVER had a book bring me to tears, like, actual ugly girl crying! All the "bad stuff" that happened to her I can relate to because I also went through some of them. She is a fighter that pulled her life, literally, out of the pits of hell and turned it into an amazing one.One of the reason I bought the audio is because I am slightly Empathetic. I feel people better when I hear the words coming from their mouth. Her humor and charm in the way she reads the book is amazing. Hearing her voice ever so slightly crack durning the bad moments brought a sense of real fear amd emotion that I felt in the pits of my heart. Hearing her laugh at the awkward moments when she met Steven, when she made a fool of herself or just her laughing awkwardly at her own Idiot moments also brought things into perspective.Read/Listen, if you have any emotion at all this book will bring it out of you.All in all, Laura is amazing and I will always love her.10/10 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Wow wow wow que libro tan ligero y pesado a la vez, con una ligereza te describe cosas tan horrorosas y con humor, hermoso , me encanto

Great read- it's entertaining without being over the top. It's raw and honest and captivating. I've yet to read a biography that's kept my attention so quickly and kept it til the end, until this book. I appreciate the rawness of this book. Nothing was sugar coated, Laura is not afraid to show the roughness of drugs. She was very forthright and open about how she got sober, how she grew as a person, and how she found herself yet again. Very proud to say I was a fan prior to this book, and will continue to be a fan in all that she does!

Das Buch ist genial geschrieben und sehr verständlich. Sie ist absolut eine ehrliche und selbsttreue Schriftstellerin. Mir hat es in vielen Momenten ein Lächeln ins Gesicht gezaubert und ab und zu auch ein Moment zum nachdenken.

Life's a mess? Check! Mom brain? Check! Level of awkwardness just hit the ceiling? Check!I love this book!

Me ha encantado, soy de España y lo recibí en muy poco tiempo