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Product Details

  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Scribner; First Edition edition (July 17, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0743274911
  • ISBN-13: 978-0743274913
  • Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.9 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,861,009 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 starsI, Claire
By Claire B. Zulkey on August 10, 2007
Format: Hardcover
...loved Stacey's book. I've been recommending it to every female I know who I think is cool enough. We seriously need more books by women that don't feature laughs that depend on crazy mixups, frenemies, unavailable men, binge eating and binge shopping. It occasionally made me feel bad in a good way, and often feel good in a very good way. If you suffer from both brains and an unabashed love for pop culture, Stacey's book will make you feel like you've got a smart-alecky friend out there.
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5.0 out of 5 starsI California
By Rita Viles on July 16, 2007
Format: Hardcover
I read the book. Its funny, insightful,reminiscent, unique and unusually well written-its like Ms. Woods Esquire columns-better than most memoirs of that type that I've read.I decided to buy more for gifts and saw the P. Weekly Review (who I usually rely upon in making most purchases)and want to ask them who the heck did they have read the book? Your facts are wrong - I double checked-and there's no "slogging through" it! Really, you should review it again. You're doing everyone a disservice and have made me suspect of your credibility. The "Deng" chapter is the best. Also, I agree with the customer who said that we don't need more "dirt" on celebrities.Everybody's got dirt on everyone they know-celeb or not. I'm tired of people using that to sell something or make themselves seem important and I don't want to pay for it. Its a cheap tactic. Bravo, Stacey Grenrock Woods for not succumbing to it. I'd rather read substance than sh-t.I, California
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5.0 out of 5 starsStacey rocks
By Susan M. Hughes on July 3, 2007
Format: Hardcover
To the reviewer who was disappointed about the lack of Hollywood dirt, haven't you ever waited in line at the grocery store? That sort of garbage is plentiful, where this book is a gourmet feast. Full of self-deprecating humor, clever, honest -- I loved it.
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5.0 out of 5 starsShe's cute, funny and battles depression--just my type!
By Scott Bailey on July 24, 2007
Format: Hardcover
I've had a bit of a crush on the author with her adorable little birthmark under her eye since I first saw her on The Daily Show back in the day, and I was sadly taken aback when the "Woods" got added to her "Grenrock" surname. Her Esquire sex columns have done nothing to quell said crush, and this here book has inflamed the oily rags of which my heart consists in all new ways. So what if she somewhat blew me off at the book signing at Skylight so that she could talk to her friend Neil Pollack who was standing beside me. No matter. Anyway, read her silly little heartfelt sardonic book (make sure you read the Deng part out loud). And make sure you substitute the word "Pram" with "Toi".
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5.0 out of 5 starsI, CALIFORNIA is a funny, memorable and unique memoir by jack of all trades Stacey Grenrock Woods
By Stacy Helton on August 17, 2015
Format: Hardcover
I, CALIFORNIA is a funny, memorable and unique memoir by jack of all trades Stacey Grenrock Woods. Woods, perhaps best known as a correspondent during the early days of THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART, has created a book of essays that correspond to the chapters of her life. Grenrock was born and raised in Sherman Oaks in an upper Middle Class Jewish home, the youngest of four children. Early chapters include a wonderfully funny experience at acting school, ran by one of the ladies’ that prepared Dorothy in the Emerald City (that kind of fame, like when Kelly Bundy went to the Larry Storch Acting School). The juxtaposition of taking acting classes while going to public school (all during her formative years) gives Grenrock plenty of material to mine (“Other girls were talking about boys. I was thinking about Robert Preston.”) Her stint as a waitress at a Thai fusion jazz-themed restaurant in Santa Monica shows the dreary politics of the restaurant world with rare celebrity run-ins (Mackenzie Phillips! John Astin!) The job of working in a used record store on Sunset while spending nights at the Whisky is described in a smoke-filled technicolor explosion of life in the kinda-fast lane. Spending 1995 as a booker at the infamous Viper Room proves to be its own kind of fast lane. I think a book could be written of people of all stripes talking about their first post-parental, post-dorm living situation, and here Grenrock’s first apartment, with four other girls, is metered out as both depraved and clichéd. Even a descent into a drug-fueled romance is played for quasi-laughs. Same with posing for PLAYBOY and the use of the new generation of anti-depressants. The most telling chapter, however, is her chapter working on THE DAILY SHOW.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsI LOVE MEMOIRS
By Lauren H. Weedman on October 21, 2007
Format: Hardcover
I read the book at first because I loved Stacey on The Daily Show...
and I think that she is SUPER SMART SUPER SEXY and SUPER hilarious in her observations of her life growing up in California....
the cover of the book sort of gives you the vibe of the whole thing
I ate the book up--and I never eat anything because I live in Southern California....
I have one last chapter to read tonight before i go to bed----
and i am so looking forward to it
and to re-reading the playboy chapter again
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4.0 out of 5 starsChildhood of a lot of work for not much return.
By moth on July 11, 2010
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Lots of kids want to be performers. Hollywood looks like exactly what they want to do. This is not a salacious Hollywood I-Party-With-Everyone. It is a portrayal of a kid who prepared herself for a Hollywood career by working hard (thighs no wider around than calves) most evenings of her childhood at a dance-and-acting school that could get her anywhere only by the wildest fluke. Hollywood version of the worthless magna-cum-laude college degree. Geez Parents, be a little bit discerning about a return on your kids' investments. She didn't make it as big as she wanted to, such is the fate of most Hollywood aspirants, but she did manage to wrangle herself minor glory now and then, before the downward spiral. Realistic insider view from a kid who had just as much going for her, and probably worked harder, than the handful of kids who do make it.

And no, it isn't my usual reading. Grabbed it at the library resale shop for airplane reading on a trip to LA, but it wasn't worthless.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 starsVery Relatable(especially for me..)

I found this book through a reccommendation of my Page-A-Day 365 Days of Books Calendar & myself and Stacey Greenrock Woods could have(and probably did)cross paths at one time or... Read more

Published on November 8, 2009 by Robyn Lee Markow
5.0 out of 5 starsA fun and lively memoir all California collections should have.

Deserving of ongoing mention and recommendation is I, CALIFORNIA: THE OCCASIONAL HISTORY OF A CHILD ACTRESS/TAP DANCER/RECORD STORE CLERK/THAI WAITRESS/ NIGHTCLUB BOOKER/DAILY SHOW... Read more

Published on April 4, 2008 by Midwest Book Review
5.0 out of 5 starsI, Key Lime Pie

Huzzah!

While my copy must have been missing an entire chapter on Key Lime (im sure that was a printing issue), her book is possibly one of the smartest, funniest walk... Read more

Published on September 19, 2007 by Tonyboy
1.0 out of 5 starsBLAAAAAAHHHH

After reading about this book in the L.A. Times, i figured it was worth a few hours of my time. I am seriously confused reading some of the reviews giving this weak, random, and... Read more

Published on September 2, 2007 by R. Wood
2.0 out of 5 starspretty close to hating this book

I don't even know how I finished this book. I felt like I wasted my time.

Published on August 23, 2007 by Jodie Geller
1.0 out of 5 starsVanity Publishing Lives!

A couple of chapters hang together, including the one about her day being photographed for Playboy. Much of the rest strains too hard to be witty. Read more

Published on August 14, 2007 by Bradley F. Smith
4.0 out of 5 starsMany will relate

Unique writing style, unique life,
interesting perspective, full of laughs,
happy ending (in spite of herself)

Published on August 10, 2007 by NJgirlinCA
5.0 out of 5 starsGimme, Gimme, Gimme, Grenrock-Woods!!!

Recommended to me by a friend who grew up in L.A. -- absolutely loved it. Certainly, not the usual Hollywood/L.A. bulls#*@ recollections of decadence, fame, or self-promotion. Read more

Published on July 24, 2007 by Simon John Ritchie

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