As we discussed over the weekend, Lena Dunham and Amy Schumer are cut from the same douche-cloth. While Lena got most of the attention from her interview with Schumer, it’s worth noting that Lena was supposed to be interviewing Amy Schumer about Amy’s book. Like, that was the whole reason they were being a—holes together. Amy was shilling for her book and Lena wouldn’t stop talking about herself and how she makes up fantasies about being sexualized and objectified by black men and presents those fantasies as real life. Amy has been doing promotional work for her book, The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo, for weeks now. And while the book is selling okay in its first few weeks, I guess everyone expected the sales to be through the roof?
Amy Schumer’s book, “The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo” — despite being No. 1 on the best-seller list for two weeks — is a disappointment, sources say. Although it sold 36,000 hardcover copies in its first week, Simon & Schuster paid $9 million for the funny memoir.
“The publishers are hugely disappointed. They are going to lose a ton of money,” an industry insider told me.
While critics liked the book, Internet trolls flooded Amazon with one-star reviews, which angered Schumer so much that she canceled some promotional appearances.
“How thin-skinned she is to get upset over reviews by haters who probably didn’t even read the book,” the insider said. “For $9 million, she should do whatever [the publishers] ask her.”
“Amy’s book has sold [more than] 170,000 copies across formats in the first two weeks,” a Simon & Schuster spokeswoman told me. “We are beyond thrilled.” The rep also noted that Schumer had to cancel two promotional appearances due to illness.
A source at a rival imprint said, “It’s not a disaster, but it’s not a huge success. Simon & Schuster has a long way to go to recoup their investment.”
As for the rival publishers who underbid for the book? “They are happy they lost the bidding war,” the source said. “They are breathing a sigh of relief that it isn’t theirs.”
There are several lessons here. One, publishers should not spend $9 million on an Amy Schumer book/memoir. That’s completely asinine. Two, the whole idea that dude-bros and/or haters are flooding the reviews reminds me a lot of what happened with the Ghostbusters remake and those reviews. Even though I loathe Schumer, here’s a fundamental point that I hope we can all get behind: WOMEN ARE ALLOWED TO MAKE ART. They can write, act, direct, paint, sculpt and create and they should be able to do all of those things without butthurt men getting their panties in a twist because women dare to use their voices. Is Amy a thin-skinned hypocrite? Sure. Do I have any interest in reading her book? I do not. But I’m not offended by the fact that she’s a woman and an artist. People need some perspective, for the love of God.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
I don’t really like Amy but I’m going to buy her book. One because I’ve heard it’s actually really funny and I enjoy some of the sketches on her show and two because I am so fucking sick of insecure, whiny ass men trying to bring female comedians down for no reason other than that they want to keep comedy a boy’s game.
Her book is really, really good. I bought it at the airport starting a long weekend trip, and was 3/4 of the way finished by the time I got home. It’s funny, but there’s a lot of substance there. Really enjoyed it.
I bought the book and started reading it. I’m SHOCKED S&S picked her up. It’s not substance as savu said. It’s a fast read and not memorable. S&S usually does three book deals so this is surprising.
Two things about why it may be under performing if that’s the case:
1) We live in very mean, nasty times – it could be that people have had enough of the blonde b*tchy meangirl comic. Not that Amy encompasses that entirely, she has shown true vulnerability in her work that humanizes her at times and she’s actually funny, unlike say, Chelsea Handler. It could be people are burnt out by the ‘type.’ Rightly or wrongly.
2)I think what hurt her with women and a certain segment that she was beginning to be embraced by (the unapologetically ‘not a size zero (or 2,or 4 or 6 or 8 crowd’) is her seeming mortification and embarrassment over being put on a plus size issue of a women’s mag. She had a fit over that.. Screaming I’m not fat, I’m not like all you American women who avg a size 12-14 (majority)- turned loads of people off her. It was a dumb move. If she had been gracious and embraced the cover and her curves and the perceptions that she was on the healthier side it would have increased her appeal. Instead that whole swathe of women who saw themselves in her, just said.. ‘ugh, you bish, ‘ and threw up the hand.
Mistake.
” perceptions that she was on the healthier side”
Healthier…?
@Gena – I’m going to buy it, too.
I am tired of insecure men.
So you’ll support a racist women instead????
@Flowerchild, ‘woman’.
Oh, please Gabby, don’t be a grammar queen – we are typing quickly on the Internet. On a fun gossip site!
Dayum ‘woman’, I think you can give people, including yourself and everyone else here, a break.
Unless you are my humorless 5th grade teacher, of course. In that case – you are very scary.
Meh, I just don’t think we can blame the lack of success on “insecure men”. Tina Fey’s book and movies do/did very well, as did Amy Poehler’s, and Chelsea Handler had at least 3 books do well. I bought Schumer’s book and read it in two sittings. It’s a solid 3 star book, so I do think the many 1 star reviews were just trolls. But I don’t think we can logically say it’s simply because she’s a woman or because men are “insecure”. There is just something about Schumer that really rubs people the wrong way.
Nine MILLION dollars???!!! For an unevenly funny comedian that has had one movie and three seasons of a sketch comedy on cable? Why??? That is Barak Obama level money for his book about presidenting the US of A right there. Publisher must have been drunk.
I know it’s amazing, I am not surprised celebrities can get this for books about nothing, most of them pay a ghost writer to write the book.
My partner works in publishing for a company that’s not Simon & Schuster and he told me when the bidding was going on that they were fools for paying so much for a book that probably wouldn’t sell.
S&S is big into making movies off books though. I dunno if Amy can carry a movie off of books.
I’ve worked in publishing for many years and it makes no sense. Publishers will pass on a brilliant book by an unknown author (JK Rowling) but spend ridiculous money on a celebrity book just because they think name recognition will translate into sales. They also would rather publish the same author 50 times for huge money (Danielle Steel) than publish 50 lesser known writers for less money and put 50 new voices into the marketplace. Kinda like films, where the sequel of a sequel of a hit gets made, or an old movie gets remade, or a bad actor keeps getting movies (Adam Sandler), while a new idea is rejected multiple times even though it’s a winner (Stranger Things). Real creativity is basically stifled by the bean counters, which is why we have self-publishing and indie films.
And if you think about it even these mediocre stars can go on tv shows and get on the best seller list, but she didn’t promote the book and cancelled her appearances.
Maybe she isn’t as funny as she believe she is.
Hannah,
Funny, I said the same thing on Dunham/Schumer story. I think people are starting to wake up and realize she is overrated, to say the least. It should be interesting to see, should her career take a nose dive, how long the hot boyfriend sticks around.
She’s acting like an entitled child.
Have never liked her or found her funny.
If she’d waited until she’s lived a few more decades & hadn’t already constantly overshared – then I might be interested
Exactly.
Yep im sorry but she isn’t funny AT ALL!
Knowing that the site was flooded with troll makes me want to buy the book. Pro-Schumer, anti-Schumer, I don’t care. I want more books by female comedians. I want Schumer to succeed because in our unfair world, if she fails, the next woman doesn’t get a chance, and I want a chance.
Yeah this misogynist trolling of female celebrities is getting way out of hand. Don’t like her, don’t buy the book/see the movie. Grow up.
However if we must fight fire with fire I think women should start flooding every fanboy obsession with one star reviews. Marvel, DC, Star Wars. Tear it all up! They star too many men and it’s pushing an agenda! That’s how this works right boys. 🙄
We should not forget our heroes like JK Rowling or Margaret Atwood. Internet trolls are deplorable, but they are not the world. We still have women who create fantastic amazing worlds that are not Marvel universe :-). Attention on the good too.
Amen, Annaloo. It’s all about content and there have been female creations that are abismal and also superb ones, hence Potty. But buying her book just because she’s a woman, that’s not good either. If I liked her shtick I would buy it, but I won’t do things I don’t like in the name of her ego. It’s not a great book, plain and simple.
You do realize there are women who love Marvel, DC, Star Wars, etc., right?
What Trixie said.
I buy books I am interested in. I won’t buy her book just because she’s a woman. Especially an ignorant, racist woman.
Really? You won’t buy her book just because she’s a woman?
That’s actually appalling.
@lurker why is that appalling? A person shouldn’t purchase something just because it was written by a woman. I mean just because I have a vagina doesn’t mean I am obligated to support Amy. I find her unfunny, rude, crude and racist. I don’t think I am obligated to spend my hard earned money to support someone who holds beliefs I obhor.
By your logic you think I’m a terrible person for voting for President Obama vs Mcain and Palin, because Palin was a woman. When I shared values, beliefs and had confidence in President Obama.
Lurker, I think you misunderstood that comment. Or maybe I did?
I took it as Snarkweek saying that she’s not going to fork over money for a book by someone she doesn’t like based solely on the criteria that Amy is also a woman.
Not that because Amy is a woman she refuses to buy it.
OHHH, oh! I get it now. I did misunderstand, it appears – I thought you meant you wouldn’t buy a book by a woman, full stop. Well now I feel like a spanner.
Yeah no, it obviously is fair enough that you don’t want to buy Schumers book just because she’s female! Oops. Go about your business, while I drink some more coffee.
Sorry Snarkweek and thanks Erinn ☺️☺️☺️
You ladies said it better than I did – thank you.
@Lurker
I think I need some of your coffee lol.
So you want to buy the book of a white woman who made jokes about Latino men being rapists, said black men are more likely to catcall and whom is also friends with a woman who sexually molested her sister and who is also a tremendous racist who was literally just in the news for applying racist sexual objectofications on a black man….because she’s a woman and we should just support her?
Must be great to be a white woman.
I don’t want to buy Amy Schumer’s book — but I DID buy yours, Miss Grace Jones. Hardcover, natch.
Double post! But I damn well meant what I said about Schumer and Dunham.
Fvck them!
And Miss Grace Jones, believe me -Caucasian women also agree with you. Not that should damn well matter, with these two.
Oh damn it – it had double posted, now my original post is gone!
But here’s the encapsulated form of what I had written to Miss Grace Jones and eggy. (And I agree with you both) I also need to buy Grace’s book ASAP – my sis already has the hard copy, loved it (off topic she also saw Grace at the Hollywood Bowl and said the show was beyond fabulous). Need I mention that Grace’s book was pushed on iBooks but not like Schumer’s has been! Not nearly enough!
Meanwhile Dunham and Schumer are both are disgusting and getting paid for what they do, and well it’s pretty criminal – $9 million!? Really? They’ve been pushing Schumer’s book on iBooks for I’m guessing, months, because that’s how long I’ve been checking out the new books and seeing her smirking face and unclever title on it. Now the real Girl With the Dragon Tattoo kicked ass. This, not so much. It sucks ass.
And of course as we all know, consumers, well most anyway, will ignore advertising and reviews and get what they want. I can’t believe they are now trying to push this pos by saying she’s being unjustly attacked. Mmm, right. They’re just trying to make their money back. And what a stupid deal. Now that actually makes me laugh. At Simon & Schuster. How many people will be fired for that one.
I hope Schumer and Dunham will finally fade away at some point. One can only hope…
It shouldn’t matter whether one is a female or male, one should support what they believe passes as talent.
Sorry, but just because Amy shares the same anatomy as I do, does not mean I dot not have the right to question her behavior, what she says in public, or my right not to care for what she is trying to pass off as “talent.” I saw “Trainwreck” on cable, and to this day, I don’t get what the big deal was about that movie.
One should support who you admire, regardless of gender, the end.
LMFAO
I can’t speak for everyone, but I’ve over entitled, ungrateful, narcissistic celebrities, who are lucky to be where they are, but think they’re God’s special snowflakes. Here’s a hint, you’re not that special.
I Don’t like Amy, God she irritates me and don’t know why. So Blah
I just don’t like her. Or Lena Dunham. Which is why I would never read their books, no matter what Amazon trolls say or don’t say. I’ve read books with very few good reviews so that’s never a deterrent. More often than not I don’t look at Amazon for book reviews. Everyone’s a critic these days.
But these two … ugh. It pains me that they’ve been hyped as the two loudest, proudest “feminists”. Two women with massive self-esteem issues who pretend to be so enlightened and over it (society, I guess). Don’t get me wrong, self-esteem issues are not what bugs me. Obviously. But it’s the act. “Haha I’m chubby by HW standards but I don’t caaaare!” Except you do. Again, that’s fine. But you’re talking down to women who don’t pretend to not be affected by crazy standards – beauty and otherwise – for women. That “story” Dunham tells about the footballer (I think) was so cringeworthy. Girl, you’re projecting like crazy.
I’m not reading a book that talks down to me.
I agree completely. They are both awful and so, so oblivious, yet they are somehow being held up as representatives of feminism and women in comedy. I don’t find either of them particularly funny or relatable, and I’m supposed to be their audience. When Amy first started to get attention, I liked her, or at least wanted to like her, but it pretty much all went downhill the more she talked.
Lena is just….. wow….. so many problems I don’t even know how to describe her. She’s full of herself and doesn’t seem to realize that it’s possible people don’t like her because of her personality, completely independent from her looks. Like it never occurred to her that maybe the man didn’t want to talk to her because she was boring and stupid and not a good conversationalist, not because she wasn’t “hot”.
That is my main problem with these two as “feminists”. The racism issues etc. are bad but on top of that, this brand of “whoever doesn’t like me is a misogynist or thinks I’m not pretty enough” feminism annoys me like crazy. It insulates them against criticism and that’s just lazy. And Lena’s fake apologies … don’t get me started. Amy Schumer thinks she’s too good for her own brand and Lena Dunham has never lived in the real world. Those are not my representatives.
@littlemissnaughty: +1000, well said.
I realize comedy is subjective but I just don’t find her funny at all. It’s embarrassing to watch her on talk shows, I feel like the hosts have to work extra hard to have chemistry. Oh well, I guess somebody must like her.
Maybe.she.got.trolled.for.being a horrible person,.gender be damned
Nope. They troll even female celebrities who haven’t done shit. It’s a gender thing. 4chan actually organized a movement to try to bring her Amazon ratings down.
Really?! I fail to see the part where it says it is all dudes flooding the review section with negative comments betcause…misogyny?? And isn’t it a little presumptuous to assume the negativity is because of her sex?
No, there is literally an active group who are admitting to flooding amazon with negative reviews. No assumptions. That’s a fact.
So 4chan is all dudes? Females recognize and advance against misogyny too.
Mike: I’m not saying there isn’t; Google brought up a bunch of articles about fake reviews. I just didn’t see any that specifically said its a group of misogynistic males going after Amy simply because she’s a woman and not just a bad person in general.
Is your space bar on your keyboard broken?
Honestly, most readers I know ignore 1 and 5 star reviews and they can tell by the word choice if it is truly critical or just someone trolling. She overreacted for nothing. Lots of people her age want a trophy just for showing up.
I like comedy, and loved her in Trainwreck. But her comedy is kind of one-note. I have no interest in reading her book…and I have read the books by Amy Poehler, TIna Fey, Mindy Kaling and plan to read Rachel Dratchs. She doesn’t interest me as a person as everything she does seems to be the same.
OOh, I think the Rachel Dratch one was the best of all those – maybe because I don’t know much about her, and didn’t have such high expectations. Because the others were so disappointing, I’ve been veering clear of this latest comedienne book – I can’t afford to keep spending my money on bad books.
Ponytail I’m so glad you said that – I wanted so much to like Tina and Mindy’s books, but while they had moments of brilliance, I found them really uneven. I didn’t even buy Poehler’s. But everyone else seemed to really like them, so I don’t know if I just missed the point.
I think she got caught in the publishing trap that they wanted her to be Tina Fey or Mindy Kahling so they over bid and over paid for her book , which was never going to be as good or as well received. Women do not all like the same things and all women comedians are not the same.
I’m really torn on this one. I do think that both Amy and Lena Dunham have made some serious errors and I don’t appreciate the way they seem to think that their brand of feminism is the only feminism—when it’s often not inclusive. However, I too feel really sick at the way it’s become a sport now to basically harass women who create anything that men feel is encroaching on their space and try and make it fail. It makes me sick inside.
Pajiba had an interesting article up yesterday about why people go so hard after women who f-ck up, and very rarely do that with men.
I’m not going to defend Dunham or Schumer (or anyone who makes statements I disagree with), but I’d never send hate either. It just seems like such a over reaction …. And as you say, Kathleen, it’s women celebs who get the worst of it, for daring to encroach on men’s space.
Amy Schumer has a lengthy history of being an asshole and I’m sorry, but her thin skinned behavior in response to any criticism at all makes her stand up routine a little creepy for me. The reason I feel this way is because she has made a career of making fun of herself but just about goes into hysterics if anyone else does. This leads me to believe that she isn’t self depricating, but has massive issues with herself and doesn’t actually enjoy the humor she’s making a career out of. There’s an ugliness there that makes me uncomfortable. I’m also not ok with her racism, which she routinely gets a pass for. Calling Latinos rapists is something Donald trump would say, and everyone would be lambasting him for it, so why is it OK for Amy to say?
I’m not advocating sexism by any means and she had every right to toss that heckler out, but let’s not forget that Amy has made a career of calling herself a drunken mess and much of her standup delves into her sexuality, and then she flips out when others basically repeat her jokes back to her. Probably not a fair comparison, but I’m making it anyway: Richard Pryor made jokes about his coke addiction, even when he set himself on fire. He didn’t spaz out and throw people out when people called him a drug addict or a coke head. I’m just saying.
Sad F*cking Trombone!!! Ya’ll can rest assured I am full on Grinch smirking, I have ZERO coins left for her and her buddy Lena #PettyBetty (Ya’ll can forget or sweep under the rug her tweet and delete I’m Not about to forget she implied what she continues to Imply about Men of Color Over and Over)
There was a mic.com article the other day about how this guy called her out on the way she’s said MoC are the worst at cat calling anf her response was so damn ignorant and offensive.
I Know, before that it was the non funny Jokes about Hispanic men, and she is always sprinkling some crap about Black dudes in her comedy
Omg, I wish I could throw a steel seal on her mouth like in Beetlejuice.
but she said her band tweeted that!!!!! (they also wrote the joke about hispanic men being rapists i guess)
In her stand-up she also reduces asian women to “vaginas”. It´s not like fetishization and “yellow fever” were a problem or anything… besides the fact that not all women are cis.
Tired of western white women feminism.
LOL Lisa. Beetlejuice indeed.
I like Amy. I don’t like Lena at all. I will buy the book. Amy is talented and funny
Samantha Bee is talented and funny. Her book I would buy.
Is anyone in the know: how does Schumer’s $9 million compare to other comics in general, not just women? I’d be interested in seeing that.
$9 million advance for one book is *a lot* of money. Lena Dunham only got $3 million advance for her book.
its a lot. as Trixie said Dunham got way less and Aziz got about the same 3.5 or 3 million $
I checked Amazon this morning (Sept. 7) because sometimes I relish a good trolling (I know, it’s horrible). This morning, the book has 75 percent 5-star ratings, 12 percent 1-star ratings. Where’s the Troll Flood? I guess I’ll just dig ’til I find it.
How do they know that the people that gave negative reviews are internet trolls?
I looked at the negative reviews on the side, and the criticisms seemed like genuine ones you would see on any book site. None seemed to mention her gender (although I’ll admit I didn’t read every single review).
There also seemed to be a fair amount of positive reviews?
Is it possible that the book simply isn’t selling for whatever reason, and they want to claim internet trolls are responsible (even though that doesn’t seem to be the case)?
@perplexed Some of the 1-star reviews — “I am so confused! I love Amy! I love everything that she does but this…this was terrible! I felt like she thought the reader was a complete idiot and a chapter on stuffed animals…what a waste of my time. I’m so sadly disappointed in this book” — seem like sincere reviews by fans of hers.
Some of the other 1-star reviews — “This book is AIDS and so is Amy Schumer” — seem like trolling.
Then I found this: >>Not funny at all. Oddly mine and a bunch of other reviews disappeared. Shame on you Amazon.<<
Is Amazon in the habit of deleting negative reviews? Not surprised at all, just wondering…
Amazon does delete reviews that are deemed offensive. If enough people found a review (for whatever reason) offensive enough to hit the “report” option, Amazon will take action.
The amount of targeting trolling on Amazon is out of control. For a better take on a book, check out the reviews on Goodreads. They are often more upfront and honest.
They do actually delete trolling reviews in general – they want to keep the integrity of their reviewing system (for the most part). Otherwise it leaves it open for tons of paid false reviews. You’ll find a few things where people are obviously being silly, but there is definitely a review process when necessary.
If negative trolling reviews put out by people who haven’t read the book are deleted by Amazon, then I’m not sure what Amy Schumer’s complaint is. Obviously, they don’t count those reviews as real. I’d do the promotion for the book.
@ Perplexed
For one look at what’s happening on this post, people that were not going buy the book are going to buy it now because they are both women. I’m sure that’s happening on a lot of other blogs too. It may raise her book sells, which she needs for it not to be a flop and don’t think Amy doesn’t now that. She been using her brand of feminism ( AKA Tylor Swift Brad of feminism) to boost image from the beginning.
I think you have to buy the book on that site to give a review or it’s deleted.
I’m going to read it. She’s not made an impression on me so far, but I’m a book person (not just a reader, an obsessive book devourer), so I’d like to give it a chance. But, you know, I’m writing a book right now. If I had appearances and $9 million, I would be wherever I was told, with vaseline on my teeth.
My daughter thinks Amy is hysterically funny and doesn’t understand why I do not. I just don’t. I don’t think I’ve ever laughed at a single joke she’s ever made.
yeah, that’s one of the main reasons I don’t support nor care if she is even on this earth.
I am serious about my comedy and if I am not laughing, its a wrap.
I am def not supporting just because she is a woman but I also would never troll her either.
She only exists when I come to this site.
She was on Colbert promoting this book and hack-hacking her way through the interview, relating how ill she was in Hawaii. I found her annoying, and not particularly funny. She lacks the wit I find worthy of my hard earned dollars. No book sale here.
I have no doubt that sexist men are flooding Amazon with bad reviews on this book that they’ll never read. It may even be an alt-right campaign. Nothing about these internet misogynists would surprise me. Unless I found out any of them had a job. That’d be surprising. But I don’t like her and I don’t want to read her book, so…
I saw Amy live at the 02 on Sunday, having paid a fair whack money for the privilege. She was 45 minutes late (no apology), self-congratulatory, lazy in her comedy and just not that funny. Was v disappointed. I won’t be buying her book.
It’s astounding to me how much white women can sweep under the rug on the strenghth of just being a woman and therefore automatically needing of protection. Never mind the fact that she’s a proven racist, never mind the fact that plenty of people just don’t find her funny, never mind the fact that she hangs out with child molestor and narcissistic racist Lena Dunham. We all have to protect this fragile white girl because oooh girl power we have to support women!!! Ugh.
But how do you really feel?
Amen (says this white woman). Helping out a nasty, racist, unfunny ‘comic’ who has already been handed 9 million bucks? I’m sure she’s fine – I’ll pass.
Honestly though, that goes for all groups of people. People for whatever reason will bend over backwards to defend people they deem similar. Not just race or gender, but religion, nationality, etc.
I made the mistake of clicking on a trending facebook tag yesterday about Bishop Eddie Long. Holy hell, I had to turn my phone off because I was SO angry. All these people saying “oh he who has no sins cast the first stone” in reference to a pedophile. “all of our sins are the same”. “we all make mistakes”. Sorry, pretty sure I never molested a bunch of kids. It’s not just privileged white folks – it’s anyone who for whatever reason finds some kind of similarity between themselves and the person being discussed.
I have never liked Amy. I wouldn’t buy her book if she were the only woman with a book on the market.
EXACTLY. I’m supposed to feel sorry for her because she isn’t able to cash in on her casual racism and other bullshit? Boo hoo.
yeah why are we supposed to support someone like that? white women are way ahead of men of color so no thanks.
Yup. I can EASILY support female writers without having to buy *this* book because vagina. Her comedy (sketch, stand up, appearances) is so-so, and I would suspect/expect her writing to be the same.
It has nothing to do w/her being a woman. In my circle of associates, most people that I know are not going to buy a book, a memoir at that… about someone they do not care for.
I would never buy anything from her. for ME, its HER.
There are plenty of celeb memoirs that I have supported and have even given their books as gifts but I want no parts of this chick, EVER.
While I know there is this sad and pathetic misogyny trolling happening on the internet isn’t it also possible that some of the reviews just didn’t like the book? I mean she isn’t funny and really her comedy is one note and offensive. The trolling is horrible and shouldn’t happen, women should be able to create art but are we sure that is ALL that these comments were?
As for the cancelling appearances well that is unprofessional, sorry but she got 9 million dollars that is an insane amount of money no matter what happens go to work!
I mean Leslie Jones was for sure trolled, hacked and sent death threats if I recall but she didn’t not do her job, which I think at that point we would have all said yeah you earned a skip day.
Amy is just brat who has bought into her own hype.
I saw this displayed at the front of my Barnes & Nobles but it was on discount. I thought to myself right then, who buys these celebrity books and is this really going to sell well? I didn’t think it would for some reason. No one was browsing through it; I didn’t see anyone pick it up and buy it. I personally have little to no interest in reading what celebrities have to say, even from my favorite celebrities. It must be nice for celebrities like Dunham, Schumer, and Pippa Middleton to receive millions of dollars for books that don’t sell or are just a narcissistic bunch of useless information.
I would like to get her book (audiobook) and Amy Poehler’s book (audiobook), but they are
$18.00 and $24.00 on Audible. That’s 3.5 hours of work for me to make $42, so no.
Finished reading it. Forgettably a beach read as expected.
She is just too casually racist for me to give a damn about her. She just refuses to learn about why people are offended by her jokes.
Yep. And I hate people who refuse to learn or grow because they think they know everything.
She’s too young to have a memoir. I see so many celebrities who are my age, just under 30, and while they might be accomplished, they’re not done yet. Why the rush to tell your life when you’re still in the thick of success? It comes off as money grabbing and self-congratulatory. Wait until you’ve really got a legacy behind you to reflect on.
I think a lot of them don’t have staying power so they’re pushed to make the most of it while they can and it’s kind of sad.
Maybe everybody is checking her book out of the library.
The people who spend money on books are usually the ones who love books of a certain literary quality, and I don’t think the writing she does fits into that category.
I did flip through some of the book, and while I get that she’s a comedian and that she accommodates her writing style to that mode, her writing did strike me as worse than Mindy Kaling’s. Maybe the cover didn’t help either…I don’t know if that’s the type of cover people want sitting on their coffee table.
I really loved Trainwreck but I got back and forth on Schumer. And she is too young for a memoir. TIna Fey’s Bossypants was great, but she was older and had had more life experiences.
Whether her book is good not, I do think there are dudebros who spend a lot of time online, ripping people apart.
You call Amy an artist, but Chelsea an asshole. They’re two sides of the same coin. I loathe Amy, but I wouldn’t call her cut from the same cloth as narcissistic child molestor Lena Dunham. Amy is neither funny nor artistic, and that is why she’s getting negative reviews, not because misogyny.
She’s probably getting a lot of flak for the Lena interview, but I mean…a woman being an asshole doesn’t preclude her from potentially being a victim of sexism, yeah?
I buy only the books, films and music I’m sure I’m going to read, watch and listen to many times.
And memoir from 30-something-years-old? Seriously?
I’ll probably pick it up due to good reviews despite myself, but I do remember thinking it was a bizarre career move this early into the game. She’s young to be releasing one, and her career only recently took off.
To be fair, almost ALL books sell poorly. Unless you are Stephen King, Danielle Steele, or James Patterson, you aren’t selling many books. People don’t read much anymore.
These two talent-free twits aren’t role models for anybody. They really just need to go away.
The fact that so many on here love her brand of humour and willing to support her is very revealing to me and explain many things.
I support women like Anne Bishop. Her fiction is superbly thoughtful.
I think it has less to do with her being a woman, and more to do with people just not liking her. Not everyone is a racist/sexist jerk even though the internet likes to scream and cry about it all day. Plus, the publisher had given her a more reasonable advance, the book would probably be considered a success, so maybe the real issue is with whomever put together the deal. $9 million is a LOT, even Tina Fey only got around $6 million I believe.
Yeah, that was an over-inflated advance. But I can’t blame her reps for asking for as much money as they could get. And no book that sells nearly 200,000 copies in TWO WEEKS in our Kurrent Kardashian Kulture is a failure. Just NO. Between hard cover, paperback, e-books, they’ll be fine. She does enough stuff to get annoyed about, no need to manufacture stories.
Ehh… I’m not gonna buy her book just because 1)she is a woman and as a woman I had to support her 2) she is hurting by the troll comments
I cant digest her works and her reaction towards certain things are such a turn off. How am I gonna read the book if I loathe the writer?
I only buy books when the subject interest me. I’m pretty sure there are plenty of women authors out there.
Good! I am GLAD her book is selling poorly.
From everything I’ve read and heard over the last few years Amy Schumer needs to get her head shrunk down to size.
Just make the unfunny cabbage patch doll face go away.