Chelsea Hander is New Jersey comedian with a show on the E! channel, who has appeared on a number of other TV shows as herself or in an acting role.  My Horizontal Life is about her sex life, although it reads more like a stand-up comedy routine.  The chapter titled "My Little Nugget" starts out "I think we can all agree that sleeping around is a great way to meet people."  Most of the chapters have a wise-cracking tone, although we get to know about her relationships, her family and her friends.  Her stories are not particularly sexual and don't try to be erotic: mainly they try to be funny and a little shocking.  She complains about a man with a small penis, about her annoying gay friend Nathan, about the man who took her back to his apartment and appeared in a leather neck brace /helmet and a black leather holster, about her 28-year-old roommate Dumb Dumb who was a virgin, and so on.  Some of her stories are amusing, while others will leave you flat.  She can be sharp-witted and a little cruel, but she also puts herself down.  I didn't find this memoir either memorable or illuminating, but it was mildly entertaining.

© 2007 Christian Perring. All rights reserved.

Christian Perring, Ph.D., is Academic Chair of the Arts & Humanities Division and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Dowling College, Long Island. He is also editor of Metapsychology Online Reviews.  His main research is on philosophical issues in medicine, psychiatry and psychology.

Categories: Sexuality, Memoirs