The Vagina Monologues

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Summary: Dissapointing
Review: More trivial than insightful. Had some great moments of wit, but as a whole is fractured and disjointed. Could have used a good editor.

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Summary: Slight Words
Review: This is a book about women discovering themselves. Unfortunately the ambition of the project is not realized with the superficial stream of consciousness approach used. This may have been effective as a device in the play from which the book is derived but not here. The predicably trite forward by Gloria Steinem is out of place in this book and hinders its aim. Steinem only describes women in contrast to men not as ends in themselves.

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Summary: wonderfully enlightening
Review: I just wanted to say this book was a wonderfully done masterpeice. I think every girl and women should read this to help to strengthen our image of our bodies.

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Summary: An incredible empowering walk through a womans best asset.
Review: This book had to be the most amazing book I have read in years. I picked it up and didn't put it down until I was finished. What Eve Ensler has done to reclaim the word "vagina" and make it ours again it both breathtaking and brave. She has started the break down of so many sexual and societal barriers and has started the road to shameless sexual sucess. But the book is not only about having better sex and knowing how to please yourself. It is about becoming more comfortable with being a woman and knowing who you are and where to locate all of your parts. I have been waiting for a book like this for years and I am so proud that it should come in such a wonderful form as the beautiful and moving poetry/prose of this wonderful author. To any man or woman who feels that they know everything there is to know abot a woman's vagina, read this book. It will not only change your views but it will rock your world. I'm in love with this book. Well done.

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Summary: No man-hating here, just a celebration of life!
Review: I had always considered myself a pretty outspoken feminist (but not a man-hater, more a woman supporter). This book freed me of inhibitions I didn't even know I had. I had never been down there, not really, until I read this book and was inspired to love every part of myself. This is a liberating book for any woman who reads it, and as a teen I feel all girls should recieve this book as a gift once they get their period, and all men should be required to read this to get a better understanding of women. I think that this is a book that speaks honestly to all people. It isn't a defamation of anyone, but a celebration of life and womanhood.

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Summary: Excellent Piece!
Review: I recently saw a performance of the Vagina Monologues at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I was amazed. The performance was excellent, and the work itself is thought-provoking, enlightening, and empowering.

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Summary: Entertaining and Enlightening
Review: I happened upon this book by chance, intrigued by the title. Once I started reading it, though, I could not put it down. I had read it twice in less than 24 hours. It has become one of the books I pass on to others. So far, my copy has been to four other readers who all think it is as wonderful as I do! A definate read for all women, and a great gift for every teenage girl!

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Summary: Words cannot express...
Review: I would like to take this opportunity to thank Eve Ensler for her work. This book changed my perspective on my body and those of women around the world forever. Finally we have found a sane voice among all the myths, fears, and secrecy. I have given this book to many of my friends, male and female. Keep passing the word on, and on and on...

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Summary: WHO KNEW VAGINAS WOULD CHANGE MY LIFE?
Review: Three years ago a friend of my took me to see Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues. I didn't know what to expect -- it could be anything from serious feminist performance art to stand-up judging from the title. But Ms. Ensler's incisive words and brilliant message have forever changed the way I think, feel and relate to my body and my feminity. These are not just words on a page, they are an experience.

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Summary: After fainting a few times, I thoroughly was won over.
Review: My first reaction to this book which I selected at my local library after a messy day on the job pouring concrete was that I wanted to write a sequel and title it "the cock chronicles". As I sat alone though in my dirty-interiored pick-up truck resting my sore body I was touched in many ways by the books sensitivity not just to womans feelings, but to humanities. I do confess to being an occassional watcher of pornography because my attention span is sometimes thus that anything that appears before me requires my immediate involvement. But as I am now advancing in my job, I have turned to watching home improvement videos rather than porn. It has the same hands on appeal and as I age I find it will serve me more in the future. Now as I used to want to be a professional actor and now have transferred this wanabeism to banging nails in residential contruction, I occasionally yearn to hear my golden voice. Enough beating around the bush: my cynicism faded away as I read story after story by women about there experiences. Certainly, I was aroused at points. I yearned for a better understanding of woman and how I could learn to be more sensitive as a man. For me, this book is more worthwhile than joining some men's organization, be it religious or civic, that poses the idea that men getting together is for the purpose of serving woman. I love art. I love peoples honest feelings. I do like to be challenged. I admit that often I am quite obsessed sexually. I do still cat call woman but it is because I believe that I can serve them. It is in my nature. Finally, a book comes out that puts me in my place. That is what everyman really wants: to be put in his place by a woman. As this year winds down I can honestly say that the Vagina book was the first book that I read all year. It has wet my taste for reading again that has been dormant. I am now reading all sorts of books. I think it is an excellent book to give as a gift. To a man or a woman, this book is appropriate. Even if the person laughs at first, that is a fine response. As the holidays approach I will tell all my colleagues on the job to get this book for their woman, girlfriend, girl you are trying to hit on, wife, sister, sister-in-law. I am now set to pen my lifetime story: the Cock Chronicles.