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Summary: Intellingent, fierce; neither mutes nor is consumed by anger
Review: An awesome writer, in full command.
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Summary: Wurtzel needs to quit!
Review: Typical overly opinionated stuff from an author who is more hype than substance. Her mis-titled "Prozac Nation," may be her peak proformance, depite some major problems in that book. This pseudo-feminist stuff comes straight from "Cosmo," "Glamour," etc. Save your $$.
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Summary: This is a great book, chalanging and insightful.
Review: Wurtzel changed my opinions on many things. I did find it a bit hard to read, so I hesitate to recommend it as required reading, but I've been forced to read much worse. Wurtzel's approach seems indirect, circling and tying in more threads to deal with subjects poorly suited to direct unflinching frontal attacks.The literary, movie, and music references are a kind of bonus tour. It doesn't surprise me that some gave it bad reviews, it is not easy to have your assumptions challenged. I heartily recommend it!
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Summary: whats with all the bitchin' ?
Review: I'm not sure exactly what readers of this book were expecting when they picked it up from the bookshelf (is the reason that there is so many anit-views due to the fact that people were hoping there would be some kinky lines in it due to the cover?) But in my opinion this book is one which collaborates the past with the now,drawing in examples which many of us can recognize.Everyone knows something about the OJ story,everyone knows something about Hill and Bill.(or perhaps,the hillbillies). It is a book documented with evidence which is current.It brings up good points and not so good points about the general make up of society today. Read it.
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Summary: Give us a break.
Review: Is there anything more sad than having to read this tome to being completely clueless? The author is completely bereft of any insight or thought that will be of use to anyone, especially herself. Think about this tupid premise long enough, and you too can have a nervous breakdown! She continuously demonstrates what a bottom feeder she is on the fruits of life. Yeah, so she went to Harvard, all she learned there was what a spectacularly lost human being she is. Quotes from Naomi Campbell? Get a clue. This person shows how utterly lost a a human soul can become upon their immersion in the illusions of conventional reality. People who take drug cocktails just to keep themselves from having a nervous breakdown should keep their sick thinking to themselves, not write books about it, spreading their sickness like a baby spreads its feces on a clean wall. The writing is shallow, the insights nonexistent. It makes you wonder what there is for this person to praise o! r celebrate when their reality is so disturbing. It is sad that people choose to publish crap like this, sadder still that people choose to live it, as the author claims to do. Don't read this book. If you are feeling curious about it, stuff your face in an unflushed public toilet. At least you'll be able to wash up afterwards.
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Summary: "Bitch" a real dog of a book
Review: I'm sure Elizabeth Wurtzel's friends find her coy "agonizing" about her character flaws, her relentless self-justification, and her brutal putdowns of others' lives and choices fascinating, if not charming. For the rest of us, however, "Bitch" is a four-hundred-page exercise in boredom and embarrassment. I expected very little from this book; even so, I was disappointed. If anyone wants to read about self-empowering women dealing with social preconceptions about corporeality and sexuality, I strongly suggest the brilliant "Carnal Acts" by Nancy Mairs.
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Summary: interesting interpretation on pop culture and feminism
Review: I've only read the first third of this book and have to agree that it is indeed a disappointment after Prozac Nation. Whereas Prozac Nation was gritty, feisty, and intensely personal, Bitch reads more like someone's doctoral dissertation on pop culture and feminism. That aside, if you read the book as an intersting collage of feminist theories, history, and tv's Hard Copy, it makes for somewhat interesting entertainment.
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Summary: LizStrikesAgain!
Review: Ms. Wurtzel's latest is another hit! Two pitches, two hits! She's batting 1000, I figure. "Bitch" is another collection of Wurtzel writing as only she can. Somehow her ideas, her different slant on things keeps us interested and it's better conversation than most of us have on any give day!
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Summary: Poorly written, rambling self-absorbed tripe.
Review: The hype surrounding this book prompted me to finally read it, and I can say in truth that I wasted hours of my day reading this garbage. Wurtzel's writing is completely unrefined; it's as though nobody edited it. She shifts in tone quickly, from overly casual to scholarly. It just doesn't work. In addition, her ideas are just ridiculously anti-woman. She makes excuses for "bad girls," but I think what she's trying to do is make excuses for herself. And that's basically what things are about in "B***h" - it's a me, me, me book. Yawn.
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Summary: Proto-Humanism
Review: Although the Wurtzelian view is sometimes grossly myopic in dismissing the homicidal woman as a mere victim, as in the case of Amy Fischer, the remaining totality of her book is absolute Donner und Blitzen on even my sensible male psyche. She is in large rings and greater circles so much smarter than herself that she defies her own feminism, and in doing so creates a movement beyond gender. She has moxie, smarts, and a personality that tans me on a gray day. I am not subserviant to her insights, but Oh-So-Awed by the way she easily smacks of truth, big brains and just plain Humanity. If Truth is a B***h, let all women be b****s, Lies cut so much deeper. This tome rants of humanity nee feminism, and she is the Feminist-Cum-Proto-Humanist, despite her flaws. Yet another small reason why I get out of bed.
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