these stories of Becky spending like a maniac gets old and seems seriously unhealthy
919596
Meh. At this point, these stories of Becky spending like a maniac gets old and seems seriously unhealthy.
1039805
Sex and the City is a memoir of how rich, affluent alcoholics spend their time. If you think this book is about the dating habits of New Yorkers, you're in for a disapointment. The writing is only about people who can afford to eat at expensive restaurants and drink $60 cocktails (and have a hangover every day).

There are some funny chapters. There's one about men who date high-maintainance models ("MODELIZERS") and a trip to the suburbs (which the women hate) and a chapter on intellectuals who ride antique bicycles like they're in Oxford. But there's not much else.

200+ pages on the sex lives of the upper crust isn't amusing. Since few of us can afford this lifestyle, it doesn't have much appeal. Throughout the book I owndered how these women can afford to eat out every night on their salaries (a column in a magazine like New Yorker only pays $400 a week). And I came away thinking that Candice Bushnell is unbelievably vain and self-absorbed. She'd have to be, to write a book like this.

Read Shanghai Baby instead. It's similair stuff, but more plausible.
1219913
Why are these teenagers addicted to Britney Spears, 'N Sync, and this other overproduced stuff that has nothing but some other guy's lyrics?  Is that what teen society is coming to?  I hope not, but so many of them are  buying up these CD's of weak beats and childish lyrics that's its getting  out of hand.  Why don't Britney and the other boy groups write their own  stuff for once?  They might try singing about something else besides broken  hearts and the tired subject of love that their writers and producers keep  wanting them to sing about over and over.  It's sad that Spears tries a  cover of "Satisfaction (I Can't Get No)" by the Rolling Stones as  if she is some type of rock icon.  She's nothing and hopefully she will  fade soon, maybe go to college, or just hide somewhere.  That would be the  best thing she could do right now.
848546
I think she makes up all this bs.  Thee are different ways to put your clothes away and  some of her methods are too time consuming. And they have 200 books to throw away and  20 bags of garbage?  They need a dump truck.????  Seems too unreal to me
152980
What a rip-off.  I wanted to know about kids, and all I learned about is that she loves to be photographed, have her kids photographed, sell images of her kids, be self-important, insult people and be in never-never land. The stuff about her mother is such old news.  Pick up the phone, Tori.  Call her.  She shouldn't have to call your nanny.  So much ego, so little substance.  She said she wanted a "normal" family, and then parades her kids before the paparazzi to get attention for her tv show. Enough.
2425707
The actual stories are 'amusing', very much like the old Fortean Times 'Strange Deaths' section.
The disturbing thing is that the collection is delivered in a supercilious and deeply banal commentary - Wendy is no Oscar Wilde.
We K N O W these people are making mistakes...!
It all comes accross like an undignified child, sniggering and pointing a finger at an afflicted wretch.
There is also a strange attempt to turn the 'Darwin Awards' into some kind of phenomenon, as if it were somehow more important than the stories it collects.
147161
This book was written before Robin's diagnosis of cancer.  Now she conveniently is "cured" of cancer at the precise moment that her book tour begins.  Robin used her celebrity and wealth to get advanced medical care that the average individual would not be able to get.  That is what caused her to be cancer free at the moment, not these recipes and diet.  This book release has the same scent of a scam that her bosses constant shilling for the abysmally rated North Shore Animal League does.
2637819
What was once fresh is now stale.  The characters are all high-functioning alcoholics, except for Drama, who is mentally retarded.  The women do not act like women.  Ari would be in jail, or at least forced to take anger management classes for a long, long time.  The only reason to be on this ride is because you've been on it so long you just want to get to the end.
258529
To summarize this book, it's about a rich mom who has a bunch of rich kids and how they experimented in what it's like to actually clean and have responsibilities. Occasionally the mom goes into preachy religious talk and how entitled kids are, even though I'm guessing she was the same when she was young.

Even in married life she sounds rich. I mean who goes to The Container Store to buy jars for kids? That place is ridiculously expensive. The book can be a fun read, but sometimes I feel like saying, "Who are you kidding?" This mom thinks she's changed a lot since she married, but she still has a maid that comes two times a week to clean after her and her kids. And just the fact that all the kids complain that none of their friends have to do what they do implies they live rich lives and have rich friends.
3319860
Nothing surprising here. Eat less. Move more. A few strange tips like drink hot water to fill yourself up. Okay, Maria. Because hot water is the same as a meal. And despite being called "The EVERYGIRL'S Guide," I don't know many everygirls who can afford multiple spa treatements. Additionally, she opens by saying that she eats and drinks alcohol like everyone else and then spends the rest of the book talking about how she "doesn't drink that much." Overall, I wish I hadn't purchased this.
2211405
Another in the long line of (a) gen x navel gazing authors (see Eggers, Klosterman, et al.) and (b) waahhhh I have issues with my body writers (amazing that two genres are wrapped into one book) that is so painfully unfunny and unenlightening, I am truly shocked someone green lighted this project.

Allow me to save you the time and money and provide all the information you need to know: (1) Wendy McClure is an overweight female of undetermined age, though I'm guessing late 20s to early 30s; (2) Wendy McClure has what alcoholics call a moment of clarity (credit to Jules Winfield) while looking at photos of herself singing karaoke in Las Vegas that it's time to lose weight; (3) Wendy McClure fills us in on the POINTS system of weight watchers even as mini chapters (no one chapter is more than about 5 pages) peel back the layers of years and years of weight issues that apparently started with a subscription mommy bought her of "Young Miss" when she was 12; (4) Wendy McClure sees initially good signs and snarkily comments about life in general; (5) Wendy McClure finds love, loses it, finds it again (an ad nauseum exegesis and walk through "on line love" ensues!) and then yes, loses it again.

Oh, did I mention Wendy McClure starts a website (how 2001) that other women draw inspiration from because, gee willikers, they are fat too.  Oh, and Wendy McClure writes for TELEVISION WITHOUT PITY (she only reminds us of this 18 times).  The end.

Interestingly, as the book crawls to its blessed conclusion, we hear less and less about the great results Wendy McClure experiences, she actually leaves weight watchers, quits her gym, and goes for a walk.  Hmmmm.  What Wendy McClure and her legion of "poundheads" (ok I made that up) need to learn is that exercise and eating right are the simple ways to lose weight.  There is no magic bullet, there is no formula other than that.  Change your lifestyle people, and the rest will follow.  What Wendy McClure and her other gen x authors need to learn is that it's dreadfully self-indulgent and yes, narcissitic to crack open your skull and assume your problems are somehow interesting/more important than anyone/(everyone?) else's.  We all struggle with weight issues, self-esteem, the love and validation of our parents -- you are not splitting the atom by droning on for 304 pages about your own difficulty therein.

Why anyone would find inspiration in the dull, poorly structured rantings of this woman is beyond me.  A truly awful book.
1068954
She basically just plagarized A Course in Miracles and The Big Book of Alcoholics Annonymous.  I tried really hard to like this book but I just couldnt. I feel like the only original thoughts were her stories. Which were really hard to take seriously. She re words teachings of others and throws some glitter and slang on it. Im not buying it lady. Dont waste your money if you're looking for a deeply moving or spiritual experience. Its diet spirituality in my opinion.
3399654
I bought this book for a nutritional CEU coarse and was extremely disappointed.  Ms. Linn is barking up the wrong tree.  Why are kids fat?  There are not any moms who actually stay home and cook a decent meal any more! There is no one home anymore limiting television viewing.  Why are kids sexually active--I think that TV and the internet are worse than the commercials.  Parents don't parent anymore, but it is not the governments job to raise children.  If you think that you can "fight" marketing, think again--the marketing towards adults is what makes for crappy parents in the first place--it appeals to our selfish desires for food, being lazy, being lustful and greedy.
4216020
I was saddened on what I read.  This woman lives in a fantasy world.  She has no morals, no self respect and she is self-destructive. In the book she basically sold her soul for money and I bet she continues to do so.  That is her lifestyle and it will only take an act of God to change her.

Karrine glamorizes sleeping with men (married and single) and she is obsessed with the sports and entertainment industry.  Throughout her book she kept referring to her one minute role in a movie that flopped with Vin Disel and Lorenz Tate.  Wake up honey.  You are not an actress.  No one is knocking down your door other than for sex or something demoralizing.  You need to love herself.

In her book I kept waiting to hear her say that she changed and she would do something positive with her life, like go back to school to get an education or something to secure her future. But she is living that same old fake Hollywood lifestyle with no goals. She was recently dumped by her boyfriend and she will continue to be used, passed around and treated as a whore by the entertainment industry she desperately craves.

I don't get it.  What happened to morals in the black community?  I am so sick and tired of booty shaking and thug mentality in videos by dancers and singers.  Can young attractive women such as Beyonce stop Booty Shaking?  Yes, they make money but what about self-respect and dignity.  Booty shaking is old and it is tired in our community. We don't need white people to destroy us we destroy one another with our behavior.

As for the person who wrote in that we are "jealous because she is making millions."  Honey, you can't buy class.  Either you have it or you don't.  It is obvious that you have no class and are a loser just like Karrine.

 If you are going to buy something may I recommend you buy something positive other than books written by blacks glamorizing sex, bling, and drugs?  Folks, it is really old and tired.  If we are not careful we will end up losing everything Martin Luther King, Jr, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Rosa Parks fought so hard for.

Borrow the book from a friend like I did.  It is not worth the money it is printed on.
2796090
I am about 75 pages into this book and I have to stop reading it. I am literally becoming ill from the ridiculous super-woman theme that is ratcheting up further with each subsequent page. Having had a child with Down Syndrome who lived to 14 months of age with a sever seizure disorder (infantile spasms), I know what life is like when days are filled with unfruitful therapy sessions and a child who is in pain and has lost all her emotions. I simply do not believe this mom could have given Jake the type of attention she says she gave him, researched her son's condition to the extent she did, plus cared for her severely ill infant Wesley, plus ran a daycare from her home. The hours do not exist in the day to do what she says she did. What clinched it for me is that she claims she stayed up transcribing a story one of her 8-year-old daycare charges told her that she recorded on her cell phone, took the time to print it out and bind it into a volume, and give it to the child, and then every day found a new picture for the child to create a story from. When could this have happened? She was already not sleeping a wink because she had to stay by Wesley's bedside because of his breathing issues and because she was reading all kinds of textbooks and articles about autism that were strewn about her bedroom. The pace that she claims to have kept up would have resulted in a breakdown of her own health and/or mind. But instead she says she took on creating a "night school" for autistic kids in the community. As another reviewer has said, the fact that her son navigated them through downtown Chicago because he had memorized an atlas of the United States when he was not yet four, but he still wasn't talking--it's not ringing true. I feel a fair amount of license has been taken with this story to make it sound perfect and impressive--and we're never allowed to forget just how brilliant and superior her son is to all those "typical" kids out there. Not only that, she keeps finding ways to throw in how brilliant her family of origin was, with her wealthy inventor grandfather and artistically precocious sister. There is a performance orientation here that I've spent many years trying to break free from, and I am recoiling at the pride and perfectionism I'm picking up from this book. I can't read any more of this.
2799863
I like the message and story. However, the vocal fry, uptalk, cliche pizza references, Pauses, and hashtags are cringey and unbearable.
4656186
I purchased the audio version that I picked up in some dollar bin.  I paid way too much to hear this riches to 100 count thread life story.  Her voice is so whiney.  I had trouble feeling sorry for the person that lost it all (or so she claims) to her greed.  Oh, the humanity, we've down graded from our BWM to a Volvo.  Give me a break, she learned to live on a budget like the rest of us mere peasants - what a concept!