Dead Girls Are Easy
Dead Girls Are Easy
"It's the live ones that give you trouble!"
by Terri Garey
~~~~ (four out of five tildes)
While this book isn't exactly a work of masterpeice literature, I'd recommend it to anyone looking for a mostly light, easy, and fun read. I thoroughly enjoyed every bit of it, from the dead ex-neighbor to the African hoodoo rituals to the possible-twin-sister-seperated-at-birth. Are you intrigued yet? My favorite chapter was the one in which the heroine meets her unhappily married ex-boyfriend, he tries to hit on her, and she gives him what-for. Nikki Styx is my new role model! She can see dead people AND she loves to party!
Unfortunately, like so many authors, it seems like the ending of the mystery portion was a bit weak and had some plot holes. However, I liked the book enough to read the forthcoming sequel (which the ending heavily hinted at).
Skinny Bitch
by Rory Freedman & Kim Barnouin
(1/2 out of five tildes)
I absolutely abhorred this book. It's been touted as one of the new hip [fad] diet books. It's also totally absurd - eat only one piece of fruit for breakfast?? Surely they must be joking. Anyone who has a healthy relationship with food would not advocate eating this way. Then again, perhaps the authors are simply encouraging anorexia. They tell the reader to "think for yourself", but of course, the reader can only think for herself after following their [anorexic] diet plan religiously. At first, I wanted to give the authors props for listing their sources in an easy-to-read manner. Then, I realized their sources consisted of biased inconclusive internet websites such as www.peta.org and www.notmilk.com.
One thing you may ask is, who ARE these bitches and what makes them so qualified to write about health & nutrition? Well, Kim Barnouin is a former model (obviously implying a healthy attitude towards eating) and has a Masters degree in none other than HOLISTIC NUTRITION (damn dirty hippies). What about her co-author? Rory Freedman is a former modeling AGENT (not a model, but still implying that she's been around models all day and has caught the Anna and Mia bug).
So, what do these bitches advocate to lose weight and stay skinny (and bitchy, because obviously you will be hungry all the time)? Well, other than eating one peice of fruit, SLOWLY, for breakfast each day, they also say that we should stay away from anything that tastes good, such as alcohol, caffeine, sugar, artificial sweeteners, soda, dairy and meat - NO MEAT OF ANY KIND because the meat industry is evil and treats the poow widdle animaws so bad. Don't get me wrong, I love animals. But the truth is, it's an eat-or-be-eaten kind of world we live in. If our ancestors hadn't eaten protein, we silly humans wouldn't have grown our brains and strong muscles. We might've been extinct today if it hadn't been for our consumption of animal proteins. Also, proteins affect satiety, making you feel fuller longer. Animal proteins do that without causing the terrible flatulence that beans do. As if you need another reason to eat the tasty flesh of animals, many types of fish contain omega-3 fatty acids, which have been proven to positively affect brain development. So, there's a couple reasons for you to eat meat. And skinny father-fuckers, please DON'T EVEN START that humans are the only animals that eat the by-product of another animal. That is SIMPLY NOT TRUE. Don't snakes eat bird and turtle eggs? Don't insects such as mosquitoes and ticks ingest the blood of humans, dogs, cats, deer, etc? Cats will even eat their own vomit, but we won't go there.
In conclusion, I hate this book because it gives such an incorrect perception of healthy eating and advocates a completely UNHEALTHY way of life. It will cause a few thousand little girls to have poor self-esteem unless you take it off the shelf and destroy it right this instant! [or give it to somebody you hate].
EDIT: I just found this article (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/01/books/01skin.html?_r=1&oref=slogin). The author's comment regarding people not liking her book pretty much speaks for itself:
“They’re mad that they spent $14 on a book that was not what they thought, but they’re not mad that chickens are having beaks chopped off their faces?” asked Ms. Freedman, who now lives in Hollywood. “How is that possible? I can’t even wrap my mind around that.”