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Summary: funny, smart, sassy
Review: a rad book that was entertaining from front to back. deals with issues thats real women of all ages, races, and sexual prefrences. highly reccomended to anyone, male or female, that wants to know whats up with generation xx.
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Summary: Must buy for any proper mad grrl
Review: Besides the cringing reality of a book rife with typographical errors (cringe-worthy since these have all been previously featured in BUST magazine and STILL haven't been edited/corrected) the content is still worthy of an honored space of shelf/toilet seat/nightstand.
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Summary: Funny Females
Review: Feminism is not a dirty word...but this book does have dirty words in it. If you want to read some sexy, slinky, smart, funny stories about real women, here they are.
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Summary: Not Perfect, But Oh, So Tasty
Review: Filled with ruminations on everything from Mom, to Cosmo, to men, to makeup, this book contains at least one essay that will make a woman in her 20's or early 30's go, "Aha, I've been there!" or at least "Aha, I remember that show, book, album, etc."! While not every single piece struck exactly at the heart of the issue with hard-hitting, fact-based journalism, I didn't want them to. It was fun to sit on the couch with a pizza, reading aloud, reading under the covers, reading at work. In fact, my main disappointment was that I finished all 288 pages in under three days. Like the editors' inspiration, Sassy magazine, these gals include just the right amount of inside jokes, pop culture references, and silly slang without sending the usually cynical reader retching with the cuteness of it. BUST girls - UNITE!
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Summary: It's A Relief For Women Out There
Review: I bought the book today and can not put it down. It's raunchiness and openness will definitely help other women express their sexual beings and their tiredness of society. It swings open the door that women aren't barbie dolls and that they have wants and needs and that we shouldn't see ourselves as anything but beautiful. It's definitely one of those you could read and reread again and again.
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Summary: Delightful
Review: I enjoyed this book so much. It was a funny, sharp and splendid read. I especially was charmed by the article about Keanu Reeves.
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Summary: Tome of Nothing
Review: I found this book too simplistic in its viewpoints. It felt like I was reading a 288 page bitchfest. The book may have tackled todays most gut wrenching "fashionable" issues, but it left little to the imagination. Certainly the writers had unique perspectives but the major flaw was it gave little resolution to the problems at hand. Simply said, we need more to digest than the rantings of young women unable to solve a problem. While I can usually stomach the magazine, the book was merely a massive tome of blah.
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Summary: Tome of Nothing
Review: I found this book too simplistic in its viewpoints. It felt like I was reading a 288 page bitchfest. The book may have tackled todays most gut wrenching "fashionable" issues, but it left little to the imagination. Certainly the writers had unique perspectives but the major flaw was it gave little resolution to the problems at hand. Simply said, we need more to digest than the rantings of young women unable to solve a problem. While I can usually stomach the magazine, the book was merely a massive tome of blah.
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Summary: One confused magazine
Review: I had the chance to flip through this volume at a friends house, and I came away uninspired, convinced that somebody at the publishing house decided to play a really cruel trick on me and the world by melding the best of Ms. together with the worst of teen and traditional magazines---and then packaging it as the end all and be all to women's liberation. At best, it is overly cute in some places, at worst it completely ignores the work that vetrans of the women's movement have done and takes a rather binary approach to women's issues and body image. Cheerleading the "new girl revolution" works up to a point, then the intellegent people are going to start wondering how they can change their collective and individual lots in life. Many more people could have been reached if the authors balanced their poppy (almost condescending tone) with suggestions for action and strategy. Yes, change can be long hard and difficult, but anything is better than listening to overindulged young women mock the advances of previous generations as too serious and boring. Hello, real life is not supposed to be a 30-minute sitcom, and bad things can happen to you when you are not aware of what is going on and how to fight back. That these women completely ignore the struggles of minority, disabled and working class women is completely innappropriate and unacceptable. The "agenda" the book delivers is narrowly construed to appeal to over indulged white young women/girls and therefore misses the best part of feminism. Solidarity with all kinds of women (and men) to adress and undo sexism and the connected evils (racism, homophobia, classism, ableism) It is a shame the editors of this book did not consider that the new girl might actually have a longer attention span than a hyperactive sixth grader, because in the hands of a more dedicated team with more accurate and less condescending information, this would have been a great editon to any gen-x feminist's library of writings.
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Summary: Bust Rules
Review: I have been reading BUST magazine since it was a little bitty baby and it makes me glad to be a girl. I can't think of a better tribute to the readers and staff than to put out a book like this. It has a lot of essays that formerly appeared in the magazine (which I was happy about since I have passed around most of my back issues to girlfriends so much that I'm not even sure where some of them are - and back issues are hard to find - just try ordering them from their web site....most of them are sold out!) This is a great book for teenage girls, young women, middle aged women, old women.... Women who read The Rules should be forced to read the BUST Guide for their own good. My nieces will all be given a copy as they turn 13. Five great big kisses to the awesome women who thunk up BUST and this book!!!
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