Review: You Want THE TRUTH?  You Can't HANDLE The Truth!! [or why I LOVED this book!]
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 7, 2013
You want no bulls★★T 'edge' about what it was REALLY like to survive The Second Great Recession?Maybe, with a healthy dose of 'your best high school girlfriend' humor; a pinch of pathos, and a few Hallelujah's thrown in...?  (Okay, so Jewish women don't cry out "Hallelujah") but if Amy Wolf would have added one or two - what the heck!?  I would still want her to receive a line-up of  ★★★★★ 5-star reviews for 'Don't Let Me Die in A Motel 6..."No wonder this woman does stand-up  [Comedy being the flip-off of Tragedy] - and let me tell you Sisters, Amy got a Bush-el basket of Tragedy for all her trouble once her executive position at WaMu/Seattle was flushed down the toilet (Yes, there is even a reference to Tidy-Bowl in her well-earned rant.)I saw a review somewhere, one time, in which the reader was kvetching about the characters in a book being neurotic and character-flawed before pummeling the author with a ★-star review  Well, I say to THAT, "ya' ever see Tennessee Williams, Gillian Flynn's, and Joyce Carol Oates' work discounted for portraying neurotic, character-flawed women, you dolt??"Ms. Wolf does flawed like nobody's business - because she has a front row seat to irrational behaviour (Yes, spelled 'behaviour' ... Here's to you, Nigel) and she dishes neurosis generously to her audience - what a mensch!I totally LOVED 'Don't Let Me Die in A Motel 6" - why?  #1 - it was authentic, #2 - it was well-written and well-edited, #3 the author didn't pull any prissy-punches about who the villain was [even IF the villain in some scenes was herself].When I last glanced at 'Don't ...' it was selling for $.99 --- Amy deserves a LOT of money for this memoir, I hope that price was an author's Benefit Day price because $.33 royalty on the TRUTH is just not cutting it for me.