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Loading... I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Womanby Nora Ephron
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. A few good chuckles. ( )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. 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. 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. 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! 0.031 seconds to build listing no reviews | add a review
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. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:18 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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