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The Autobiography of Vivian |
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Here's one from the vaults: Vivian Livingston is the star of her own Web site, Vivianlives.com, where visitors learn all about this sassy fictional girl and her fabulous New York lifestyle. It's hard to believe a warhorse like this survived the market crash, but Vivian has spawned an actual book: The Autobiography of Vivian. The existence of this ill-written, ill-conceived book probably has more to do with Bridget Jones and Sex and the City than it does with any vogue for Web-based material. Whatever its raison d'être, Vivian's autobiography is a shocking display of bad writing: "Ahhhhhh, if men were only like dogs... Well, they are--oh just forget it--you know what I mean." No, we really don't. Not only is the book very nearly incoherent, it's lifted all of a piece from Sex and the City: Vivian is a cut-rate Carrie; her guy John is Mr. Big; and in case it wasn't enough to rip off the story and the characters, the book rips off the show's locations: on a big date, John takes Vivian to Da Silvano. Somehow, this kind of thing looks much worse in cold print than it does on a flickering monitor. --Claire Dederer
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