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I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron
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I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

by Nora Ephron

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A few good chuckles. ( )
InCahoots | Mar 29, 2009 |  
I humorous collection of anecdotes about aging and living in New York. I imagine those who are the author's contemporaries would probably get the biggest kick out of this. ( )
readingrat | Feb 12, 2009 |  
I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thought on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron is a collection of humorous essays on aging. Ephron looks at the light side of losing the youth and beauty battles. Two truly engaging reminiscences were previously published in the New Yorker. ( )
batsarah | Jan 26, 2009 |  
This book was filled to the brim with sexist tripe and complaints that most of us, to be completely honest, do not have enough money to begin thinking about making. I could not stand it. (In the interest of full disclosure, I should admit that I could not tell whether she was trying to be satirical--which would make some of the sexist nonsense a lot more forgivable--or if she was speaking in earnest; I thought the first for a while, but her tone changed drastically in the last chapter. Who can say?)At any rate, I don't believe in throwing away or burning undamaged books, but I also wouldn't want anyone else to have to read it, so I'm unsure what to do with the copy I wish I hadn't bought. ( )
artificialinanity | Dec 26, 2008 |  
While Nora Ephron certainly has a wonderfully, wicked sense of humor and has given us great scripts such as Heartburn, this book is a BIG disappointment.

Ephron comes across as a privileged, whining, snotty rich girl who complains a lot. One of the chapters is actually titled "I Hate My Purse." My response to this is: Who the heck cares! ( )
Whisper1 | Nov 19, 2008 |  
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0307264556, Hardcover)

With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron shares with us her ups and downs in I Feel Bad About My Neck, a candid, hilarious look at women who are getting older and dealing with the tribulations of maintenance, menopause, empty nests, and life itself.

The woman who brought us When Harry Met Sally . . . , Sleepless in Seattle, You’ve Got Mail, and Bewitched, and the author of best sellers Heartburn, Scribble Scribble, and Crazy Salad, discusses everything—from how much she hates her purse to how much time she spends attempting to stop the clock: the hair dye, the treadmill, the lotions and creams that promise to slow the aging process but never do. Oh, and she can’t stand the way her neck looks. But her dermatologist tells her there’s no quick fix for that.

Ephron chronicles her life as an obsessed cook, passionate city dweller, and hapless parent.  She recounts her anything-but-glamorous days as a White House intern during the JFK years (“I am probably the only young woman who ever worked in the Kennedy White House that the President did not make a pass at”) and shares how she fell in and out of love with Bill Clinton—from a distance, of course.  But mostly she speaks frankly and uproariously about life as a woman of a certain age.

Utterly courageous, wickedly funny, and unexpectedly moving in its truth telling, I Feel Bad About My Neck is a book of wisdom, advice, and laugh-out-loud moments, a scrumptious, irresistible treat.

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