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Summary: NAUGHTY, CREATIVE, AND HILARIOUS!
Review: Reading "Wacky Chicks" is very much like dishing with a best friend. Of course, this friend knows everything, sees everything, and tells all about the most outrageous women imaginable. If you're lucky enough to have Simon Doonan as your friend he doesn't relate information disparagingly but rather affectionately and in delicious detail.
This all too short romp through the lives of the bold, brazen and sometimes beautiful is subtitled "Life Lessons from Fearlessly Inappropriate and Fabulously Eccentric Women." Rightly so. We meet Brigid Berlin, a rather chubby Andy Warhol adoptee who through this artist discovered an excellent venue for her exhibitionism - whether it was shooting whipped cream into her mouth or shooting mind altering substances into not-mentioned-in-polite-society body parts. Today, according to Doonan, she can be found in a Park Avenue apartment. Gray haired and well groomed, she appears to be the stereotypical well-to-do matron. Don't be fooled. There's a needlepoint pillow which is a portrait of Yasir Arafat with the words "They're Our Cousins" on it. Companion pillows are Chandra Levy and Michael Jackson. It seems that few Wacky Chicks age gracefully; they simply age with a flare. Pages in this sometimes ditzy, always delightful tell-all also include vignettes about Isabel Garrett, doyenne and driver of a motor home which hop scotches across the United States with pit stops at swinger conventions and biker rallies. Whether or not she drives in the all-together is not mentioned, but she is a sworn nudist. Someone on planet Earth has produced, written, and performed macrobiotic dinner theater; she is Jessica Porter, hypnotist to numerous celebrities. Having read this far, it almost comes as no surprise that Amy Sedaris, chief of everything of the Comedy Central series Strangers with Candy, has transformed her apartment into a woodland wonderland all for the benefit of her beloved pet rabbit, Tattle-tale. According to our erstwhile author, "Wacky chicks are a burgeoning and highly entertaining phenomenon. Wacky chicks will change the world. Wacky chicks dare to annoy. Wacky chicks empower themselves and others without acting like blokes. Wacky chicks are having more fun than most regular chicks and all men, except maybe gay men. Wacky chicks are disapproval-immune. Wacky chicks are belligerent, resilient, uninhibited, naughty, creative, and hilarious...." So is Simon Doonan. - Gail Cooke
Rating: 
Summary: Just Okay
Review: Simon Doonan presents 14 profiles of wacky chicks (translation: eccentric women) as potential role models in today's celebrity-obsessed world. Despite the originality of the subject matter, I was disappointed in this book. Maybe I'm too young and too suburb-ian to understand all of the references to celebrities, fashion, and high society. Maybe it's because I don't recognize the names that are constantly being dropped. Maybe the rushed brevity of these mini-biographies just don't seem to do these women justice. These women are unconventional and creative creatures. The problem is they are being treated in the wrong medium. Despite Simon Doonan's colorful writing style, these women are just too "wacky" to be contained in the pages of a picture-less book. I want to see these women's lives in their full Technicolor glory and bear witness their peculiar personalities and lifestyles. But until someone buys the movie rights this book is all we've got to offer us insights into the imaginative, out of the ordinary, I-don't-care-what-other-people-think world of wacky chicks.
Rating:
Summary: Just Okay
Review: Simon Doonan presents 14 profiles of wacky chicks (translation: eccentric women) as potential role models in today's celebrity-obsessed world. Despite the originality of the subject matter, I was disappointed in this book. Maybe I'm too young and too suburb-ian to understand all of the references to celebrities, fashion, and high society. Maybe it's because I don't recognize the names that are constantly being dropped. Maybe the rushed brevity of these mini-biographies just don't seem to do these women justice. These women are unconventional and creative creatures. The problem is they are being treated in the wrong medium. Despite Simon Doonan's colorful writing style, these women are just too "wacky" to be contained in the pages of a picture-less book. I want to see these women's lives in their full Technicolor glory and bear witness their peculiar personalities and lifestyles. But until someone buys the movie rights this book is all we've got to offer us insights into the imaginative, out of the ordinary, I-don't-care-what-other-people-think world of wacky chicks.
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Summary: Better than psychotherapy!!
Review: This book has become my ULTIMATE bible, a precious life instrument- so good, I read it twice in a row when I received it!! Simon Doonan's slightly bitchy, ultra-gay, British sense of humour may not please everyone, but it was a pure joy to me. I especially loved the inspiring, motivational tone of the book and the outlook on the lives of fabulous, eccentric, smart women who are who they are without apologies. Fun, inspiring, light and wise- Wacky Chicks is a world-class instrument for builing a solid, rich, passionate life AND the happiness we deserve!!
Rating: 
Summary: Short and Snappy :)
Review: This is the cutest little book, every bit as snappy as the cover suggests. Whether or not you feel inclined to join the ranks of the Wacky Chicks, you will definitely enjoy reading about the courageous and resiliant women Doonan profiles here. They are absolutely hilarious with their sassy approach to life that is uninhibited and yet clean. I think they are the women every woman wants to be, though most of us lack the courage. Not only are these women funny in their own right, but Doonan's writing style is equally entertaining. He has that kind of snappy "humorous gay guy" quality to him that is really funny without being too stereotypical or campy. I really liked this book and recommend it for anyone with an inner Wacky Chick.
Rating:
Summary: Short and Snappy :)
Review: This is the cutest little book, every bit as snappy as the cover suggests. Whether or not you feel inclined to join the ranks of the Wacky Chicks, you will definitely enjoy reading about the courageous and resiliant women Doonan profiles here. They are absolutely hilarious with their sassy approach to life that is uninhibited and yet clean. I think they are the women every woman wants to be, though most of us lack the courage. Not only are these women funny in their own right, but Doonan's writing style is equally entertaining. He has that kind of snappy "humorous gay guy" quality to him that is really funny without being too stereotypical or campy. I really liked this book and recommend it for anyone with an inner Wacky Chick.
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