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Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-Bye

Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-Bye

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Trashy and offensive
Review: Cynthia Heimel has written another great "just say YES" book. Yes to sex, yes to drugs, and yes to rock&roll. Heimel writes what most of us have been thinking all along...that we're not all sweet, shy, moral creatures with perfect blow-dry bobs. Some of us are wild haired, trashy-mouthed girls that just wanna have fun. Heimel tells us how to do it. Be good to your dog, like your kids but give 'em space, treat everyone well but take no crap from anybody...and if that doesn't work, drink and play pool in a smoky gin-joint until you can pick up one of the band members. Heimel's not unsentimental. She writes poignantly about women struggling to raise kids on their own and women that are beginning to hit the end of their babe years. She is giggle-to-yourself funny when writing about (and against) answering machines, fashion, and rich people. I've read all Heimel's books by now and am willing to bribe her to write another. Fix yourself a drink, get under the covers, and enjoy this trashy, funny book.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Not Heimel's Best
Review: Cynthia Heimel is known for her angry-grrl rag, dished up with a healthy sense of humor, so I was up for a little good-natured male-bashing when I read this book. I was a little unprepared for the torrent of angry essays I found upon reading past the introduction.

Not an essay passes without Heimel wanting to shoot or stab someone because they don't agree with her or haven't acheived the same level of spiritual enlightenment. Women who want boyfriends? Shoot 'em. Sexist men? Shoot 'em. Women who are getting sex because they aren't feminists? Shoot 'em. Heimel's world is a bloodbath, with her unhumorous hand on the trigger.

I don't have a problem with women who write that men are jerks, since most of us are. But I can't advocate gunning us down because we're insensitive, not even in jest. When you pick up a book by a celebrated humorist, you expect to find some clever observations and maybe a few unpopular ideas. But this was just a barrage of meanness worthy of Sam Kinnison or Andrew Dice Clay.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Not Heimel's Best
Review: Cynthia Heimel is known for her angry-grrl rag, dished up with a healthy sense of humor, so I was up for a little good-natured male-bashing when I read this book. I was a little unprepared for the torrent of angry essays I found upon reading past the introduction.

Not an essay passes without Heimel wanting to shoot or stab someone because they don't agree with her or haven't acheived the same level of spiritual enlightenment. Women who want boyfriends? Shoot 'em. Sexist men? Shoot 'em. Women who are getting sex because they aren't feminists? Shoot 'em. Heimel's world is a bloodbath, with her unhumorous hand on the trigger.

I don't have a problem with women who write that men are jerks, since most of us are. But I can't advocate gunning us down because we're insensitive, not even in jest. When you pick up a book by a celebrated humorist, you expect to find some clever observations and maybe a few unpopular ideas. But this was just a barrage of meanness worthy of Sam Kinnison or Andrew Dice Clay.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Funny Urban Rants
Review: Cynthia Heimel's Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-Bye first got my attention in the bookstore because of its title (like most of her books) and the inside material, for the most part, did not disappoint. First of all, this book is funny but it is also, often, bitter in an angry urban way that can remind one of a downtown Dorothy Parker. But, to repeat, it is funny. She does not tackle any surprising issues, instead sticking to family, the battle between the sexes, feminism and L.A. (as only a New Yorker truly can) but she handles them with fresh insights and, once again, humour. A nice collection of pieces.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Trashy and offensive
Review: I found the little I read of this book predjudice, trashy, and offensive. No dignified female should read this book. It is called a feminist book, but what I have read of it actully disgraces females. Don't waste your time or money on this book!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: It inspired Mr. John Denver to write a country love song!
Review: I have no idea as to the merit of the actual content of the book, but the book's title inspired the great Mr. John Denver to write a country 'love' song by the same name- I have to buy it for that reason :) It seems the book's title "just cried out" to John to have a country song written around it and thus he did so- teehee. The song, along with John's intro explaining the whole thing, can be found on his Harbor Lights Concert cd- well worth your purchase!!! :D Thanks for your literary guidance John!!! ~~~Forever John~~~
Brandi in Alabama
::adding to her collection of JD related STUFF::

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Better
Review: Very cute stories, clever writing, I laughed out loud. Ms. Heimel came of age in the 60's and 70's, but writes about the 90's for singles...or anyone who needs to commiserate about jobs, apartments, friends, dogs, relationships....I recommend this book if you could use a laugh.


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