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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 792.7028092
EAN num: 9781592402731
ISBN number: 1592402739
Label: Gotham
Manufacturer: Gotham
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 224
Printing Date: December 28, 2006
Publishing house: Gotham
Sale Popularity Level: 13066
Studio: Gotham
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Decreed by David Letterman (tongue in cheek) on CBS TV’s The Late Show to be the pick of “Dave’s Book Club 2006,” Candy Girl is the story of a young writer who dared to bare it all as a stripper. At the age of twenty-four, Diablo Cody decided there had to be more to life than typing copy at an ad agency. She soon managed to find inspiration from a most unlikely source— amateur night at the seedy Skyway Lounge. While she doesn’t take home the prize that night, Diablo discovers to her surprise the act of stripping is an absolute thrill.
This is Diablo’s captivating fish-out-of-water story of her yearlong walk on the wild side, from quiet gentlemen’s clubs to multilevel sex palaces and glassed-in peep shows. In witty prose she gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at this industry through a writer’s keen eye, chronicling her descent into the skin trade and the effect it had on her self-image and her relationship with her now husband.
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an aquaintance told me about this wonderful writer who was comparable to the beat writers. Unbelieveable he told me. So I go to the local book seller to see if this is something I might want to purchase. I read one page and I smile to myself; this is wonderful. Page two. Smile waning. Okay. Page three my teeth are grinding,cracking. Page four I have to place it back out of sequence on the shelf(so they won't find it)and walk to work,taking in deep drinks of fresh car fumes so I'll be too dizzy to punch any customers in the face. Every other sentence has and accompanying one liner that is clever. So the aquaintance must have been talking about some other writers who got beat for being annoying and obnoxious. Lack of restraint. One note. Unbelievably bad.
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Wonderful book and very entertaining. I was really suprised by the amount of content in the book. It was very vivid and well told. I will never forget this book!
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This book is an utter waste of time to read. Absolutely vulger in its content. I could have lived my whole life without reading a book of this kind. Can not be rated even one star. Should be thrown in the trash and burned.
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Juno was hilarious and being curious about how one would go from a Minnesota stripper to a world renowned screenwriter, I bought this book. Cody braves the down and dirty (and often incredibly seductive) Minnesota strip clubs of all strata, and has no qualms about sharing her experiences with us. Some of her insights are terrifying (bed dances anyone?), but to her credit, Cody is never judgmental about those that inhabit the world of her little foray (the only exception being the owners of strip clubs and their exploitative policies). The only place where the story kind of falls off is towards the end when Diablo attempts to wax poetic about why stripping would a appeal to a good ole girl from the `burbs - this is the only time that Cody's writing seems forced, a little classist, and is just an odd addition to a really witty book. The only thing that was odd (and this was just me), was that the chick from Juno was narrating the whole thing in my head -this was funny at times, but also a little unsettling (confessions of a 16yr old pregnant stripper?).
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This was a fun read with happy ending and all. Sometimes the wording was strange or sentences packed with too many adjetives which got annoying.
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