Enter Talking

If you are looking for the definitive autobiography about Joan Rivers before she became successful, then you are looking for Enter Talking. Even though it may be the longest book that she ever wrote, it is an incredibly quick read and riveting. I would recommend it to anyone trying to get into show business or feels like a failure at anything, but keeps trying. Rivers is extremely vulnerable and does not hide her stories of pain behind jokes or reframe them as self-help advice. Enter Talking has an added bonus of details about other famous people either before they were famous or when they were considered more famous than Joan Rivers. I would particularly encourage women who feel conflicted about leaving traditional gender roles and defying family expectations. Also it is yet another autobiography where Barbra Streisand appears briefly-she must be a vampire. She is everywhere at all times and is always fabulous regardless of where she was in her career.