Official Book Club Selection by Kathy Griffin holds a promise - that she'll talk as much dirt of herself as she does about everyone else. You hear names like Brooke Shields and Jack Black. The Jack Black tales hold no surprises - he's exactly as you picture him. Most the stories concerning celebrities are naturally funny.
She talks openly about her plastic surgery, something she wishes she hadn't gone public with (only because now everyone asks her about all the freaking time). She talks very openly about her failed marriage too - it's sad to read. It's hard to picture Kathy Griffin being serious and sincere, but she is. She is in a lot of the book.
What I came away with was a new appreciation for her craft. I think a lot of us only know her as that ugly, annoying actress from Suddenly Susan who later got a bunch of plastic surgery and a reality show. According to Griffin's memoir, she worked her ass off for more than a decade before she got any attention. She took big risks, some paying off and some not. She lived with her parents till she was 27, she took acting classes in Hollywood. She took the freaking bus there (and back). She did a lot of grassroots comedy and paid her dues. Unlike Paris and Kim, she didn't make a sex tape and get famous overnight.
So, good for her. I like her.
Read it, if you have the time.
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