I Was Told There'd Be Cake | 
 enlarge | Author: Sloane Crosley
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  46 reviews
Sales Rank: 151
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.5
ISBN: 159448306X
Dewey Decimal Number: 814.6
EAN: 9781594483066
ASIN: 159448306X
Publication Date: April 1, 2008
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Product Description
Wry, hilarious, and profoundly genuine, this debut collection of literary essays is a celebration of fallibility and haplessness in all their glory. From despoiling an exhibit at the Natural History Museum to provoking the ire of her first boss to siccing the cops on her mysterious neighbor, Crosley can do no right despite the best of intentions-or perhaps because of them. Together, these essays create a startlingly funny and revealing portrait of a complex and utterly recognizable character that's aiming for the stars but hits the ceiling, and the inimitable city that has helped shape who she is. I Was Told There'd Be Cake introduces a strikingly original voice, chronicling the struggles and unexpected beauty of modern urban life.
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 I was told this book was funny... July 3, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Someone lied. It took me 4 months to get through this book. I kept waiting for the sparkling wit and sardonic charm, I didn't laugh once while reading it. Not a giggle or chuckle not even a tiny, muffled cackle. Someone had the nerve to compare her to a modern day Dorothy Parker? That man should be slapped. Without mercy. Continuously. For eternity. That's just sacrilege. I want my money back and I want all those wasted hours back too! And Sloane, I know you're going to read this (what first time author doesn't read their reviews), it's nothing personal you're just not funny. At least I have my new David Sedaris to read, I can count on that to be clever and to make me laugh.
 Very entertaining- a great light read June 29, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book was comical and engaging and kept me wanting to read more... until it was finished just a day after I received it! This is a great book to read when you want to zone out and let your mind relax. I found myself thinking about funny anecdotes from Crosley's stories weeks later, and laughing out loud at the memories of them.
 great ! June 28, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Great book, hard to put it down !
I laughed reading the very first 3 pages. I am hooked.
 Don't read this book June 28, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
If you spent your post-collegiate years in any major US city, you already lived through your own versions of most of Sloane Crosley's stories. Crosley picks a series of familiar and tedious premises and wraps them in her occasionally witty, but mostly not very incisive prose. Is this what passes for humor these days? Crosley comes across as your standard educated, privileged white kid trying to convince the reader that her life is more interesting than it is. This book has all the edge of plastic cutlery.
Disappointing! June 26, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Very disappointing! The quality of writing is poor and the essays are not interesting or funny. Being the only book I brought to read on a plane, I forced myself to read most of it. Finally, I gave up and closed the book.
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