Live Fast Die Hot, Jenny Mollen
Live Fast Die Hot, Jenny Mollen
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Live Fast Die Hot

Author: Jenny Mollen

Narrator: Jenny Mollen

Unabridged: 6 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/14/2016


Synopsis

*A NEW YORK TIMES HUMOR BESTSELLER*

By the author of I Like You Just the Way I Am and a frequent Chelsea contributor, an outrageous collection of personal stories about motherhood, responsibility, and other potential disasters

Jenny Mollen is a writer and actress living in New York. Until two years ago, her lifewas exciting, sexy, a little eccentric, and one hundred percent impulsive. She had a husband who embraced her crazy—who understood her need to occasionally stalk around the house in his ex-girlfriend’s old beach caftans and to invite their drug dealer to Passover seder (so he wouldn’t feel like they were using him only for drugs).

Then they had their son, Sid, and overnight, Jenny was forced to grow up: to be responsible, to brush her hair, to listen to her voicemail.

Live Fast Die Hot is a collection of stories about what happens when you realize that some things are more important than crafting the perfect tweet. It follows Jenny to Morocco, where she embarks on a quest to prove to herself that she can travel alone without reenacting a plotline from Taken. It shows her confronting demons—most of them from childhood, a few from the spirit realm. And it culminates in Peru, where Jenny decides that maybe the cure for her anxiety as a mom lies at the bottom of a cup of ayahuasca.

Hilarious, outlandish, and surprisingly affecting, Live Fast Die Hot reminds you that even if you aren’t cut out for parenting, at least you can be better at it than your mother.

About The Author

JENNY MOLLEN is an actress and the New York Times bestselling author of I Like You Just the Way I Am. She was a columnist for Playboy Online and The Smoking Jacket and has contributed to Cosmopolitan, Glamour, New York, Elle.com, and Grub Street. She has been heralded by The Huffington Post as one of the funniest women on both Twitter (@jennyandteets) and Instagram (@jennyandteets2), and named one of Five to Follow by T Magazine.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Laura on June 09, 2016

My love for Jenny Mollen began when I read an excerpt from I Like You Just the Way I Am in an issue of Cosmo. Classy, I know. If I recall correctly, it was a story involving Jenny’s first experience with the book Fifty Shades of Grey (which I have not read and have no interest in reading) and choos......more

Goodreads review by Emma on June 23, 2017

To be completely honest, the entire book reeks with desperation. Jenny wants so badly to be famous, to be accepted, to be loved, to be relevant and she will go to any extreme for all of those things. In a way I understand that feeling, especially in regards to her longing to be cool and worthy enoug......more

Goodreads review by Jaclyn on March 30, 2016

Got this one early from NetGalley and was so glad because I laughed out loud throughout Jenny Mollen's whole first book. The humor is still there with this one and I definitely embarrassed myself laughing while reading in public but I also found her voice to be more honest and vulnerable which made......more

Goodreads review by Lauren on June 19, 2016

I feel like this is the book form of that scene in “30 Rock” where Tracy Jordan’s standup act went from being “for the people” to entirely unrelatable after he got money. I consider Mollen’s first books one of my all-time favorites because it’s pee-your-pants funny, honest, ballsy, genuine, raw, and......more

Goodreads review by Tricia on June 17, 2016

I loved this book so much! I highly recommend the audible version. She is adorable and it's fun hearing the emotion she puts into telling her stories. Jenny is so witty and funny and so insanely likable. I caught myself so many times being like, "I can't believe she just said that." Laugh out loud f......more


Quotes

"Mollen is the voice behind @jennyandteets, which is chock-full of potty humor, sexual innuendo, and bad behavior. If you like this kind of thing — which I do — you’ll inhale her memoir like an illegal substance (which the author has also likely inhaled at one time or another). Sharp, saucy, and mildly disturbing, she reminds me of a young, psychotic Nora Ephron."
New York Magazine's Vulture

"Jenny Mollen is hovering only slightly above sanity, which is the one quality I require in order to be friends with a mother. This hysterical circus of a book reminds me why we're friends."
—CHELSEA HANDLER, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Uganda Be Kidding Me

"With her incomparable wit and acidic wisdom, Jenny now turns her signature perspective to the most terrifying of feminine terrain: motherhood. And with a generous helping of demented antics and just enough vulnerability to make you cry, she'll have every complicated woman thinking they just might be up for the job. Lord help us all."
—LENA DUNHAM, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Not That Kind of Girl

"I kind of can't believe Jenny Mollen is an actual person and not a character -- she's biting, hilarious,  surprising, over sharing, and relatable."
—ANDY COHEN, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Andy Cohen Diaries

"Raunchy, witty, whip-smart fun. Jenny Mollen is the girl your mother warned you about."
—JENNIFER WEINER, New York Times bestselling author of Who Do You Love?

“The wild, wonderful Jenny Mollen unleashes her life story… Proof that life is often stranger and always funnier than fiction.”
—PIPER KERMAN, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orange Is The New Black