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Summary: Excellent, funny, moving, emotional, educational!!
Review: Fantastic book. I read this book on the telephone to my boyfriend in a couple of hours. We both experienced a wide range of emotions - and are most appreciative. It was an incredible experience. We are going to read it again and again!!
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Summary: A book to read and reread...
Review: I just read this book for the second time, as I have added it to my permanent personal library of favorites. You'll never hear/read such a frank and honest discussion about the vagina...Ensler's voice comes through in the prose throughout the entire book. A must have!
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Summary: Glowing Report of Ensler's Vagina Monologues
Review: This book was excellent! It was straightforward, interesting, and a fast read. My boyfriend enjoyed it as much as I did (which is rather unusual).
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Summary: IF YOU REALLY LOVE VAGINAS, READ THIS BOOK!!!
Review: A brilliant and insightful examination of women and their relationship to their most mysterious posession: their vagina's. Ensler doesn't just talk the talk of intellectual feminists; she walks the walk too. The monologues are based on interviews with old women and young, black women and white, gay and straight. This book should be required reading for every man; especially macho guys who really don't have a clue what's going on down there.
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Summary: Learn about the beauty between your legs!
Review: This is a cry from women to find their spiritual, sexual, and beautiful power that is within them. There are stories that will make you laugh, stories that will make you think, stories that will make you open your eyes to the world. I have not had the privelige of seeing the performance on stage, which I imagine is fabulous and moving, but the book is good. I recommend it to women because it speaks of the taboo that women don't (or can't) want to talk about because they are afraid or embarrassed. It is witty and emotional. V-Day is a great idea. It promotes stopping violence against women. I recommend this book to women!
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Summary: A Must Read for Every Woman
Review: Eve Ensler simply has the guts to say what most of us are afraid of saying!
"Vagina Monologues" is funny, sexy, sad, thought provoking, but most of all wonderful.
Buy this book or the dvd for all the intelligent women you know - but first and foremost, buy it for yourself!
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Summary: LAUGH AND LEARN WITH THIS READING
Review: Words and thoughts once taboo are now mainstream due in large part to "The Vagina Monologues," a funny, moving exploration of women's thoughts, dreams, hopes and fears by the dynamic Eve Ensler. Released to coincide with February's V-Day, a global movement to stop violence against women and girls, the audio version brings Ensler's words to wise and witty life once more. Of course, no one is better suited to read these words than the author herself. Winner of the Obie Award for this play, Ensler is also the author of other plays including Lemonade, The Depot, and Necessary Targets, which has had benefit performances on Broadway, at the National Theatre in Sarajevo, and at the Kennedy Center. Hailed throughout the world Ensler's uninhibited masterpiece has become a rallying cry for women. Listen, laugh, and learn.
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Summary: Brilliant!
Review: Eve's courage and strength shine through the stores of women she interviewed about their bodies, their thoughts and their lives. Many people have told me that the book/play would do much better if it had a different title. THAT'S THE POINT!! No one talks about vaginas and sometimes very little attention is paid to the women attached to them. Eve devotes such care and precision to telling the stories of all kinds of women that everyone should be able to relate to something. It is true that many of the monologues are quite "edgy" and some might even call them offensive, but the fact of the matter is that they are all true and real. Such a work, one that allows women to be true to themselves, and real in their wishes, desires and longings is so rare that this one is to be savored and treasured.
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Summary: Filth in disguise - Take a Pass
Review: The Vagina Monologues explores female sexuality and strength through a series of stories that are at times funny, sad, graphic or horrifying. Some of the monologues echo ideas from radical-feminist writings of the 1970s and 1980s, these are not theoretical arguments, but rather are personal reflections. They are not against men, and indeed, the use of humor gives them warmth and makes the ideas in the monologues more convincing. Even those who are wary of the F-word (i.e., feminism) will be able to enjoy The Vagina Monlogues.
I do wish the audio version were longer, but it's still worth owning.
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Summary: I wear my "V" pin with pride!!
Review: I laughed, cried, and wished I could find a bathing suit to fit my coochie snorcher while reading the book. My eyes welled-up when my best grrrl saw the NY performance and Queen Latifah sang UNITY after the Bosnian woman's piece(there wasn't a dry eye in the house, then everyone just went crazy cheering U N I T Y). I laughed, cried, and held my boyfriend's hand while seeing a performance at the college I attended. I long to take my young cousin to the play and hope it will be something she'll treasure forever. How anyone could say such horrible things about Eve and the monologues is beyond me! #1, Eve didn't "write" the 'logues, she compiled the "stories" from interviews with hundreds of women. #2, the inception of the plays and the book were to increase awareness of vioence against women and raise money to support organizations to ensure safety to these women. #3, the story of the "pedifile" was not told by the 24-year-old, but rather the 13-year-old. #4, the only "gross" piece was the one about rape BECAUSE IT WAS ABOUT A WOMAN WHO WAS RAPED.
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