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Candy Girl by Diablo Cody
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did not like it
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Wow, this was really poorly written. Which is weird, since this is the woman who wrote the screenplay for Juno - which was fantastic. To be fair, I think the book is best described as a train wreck. Terribly written, unnecessarily graphic (I recognize that it's a book about stripping, and some things need to be graphic to get the point across, but there is absolutely no need to describe a woman's brown lip liner as 'scat-colored' - that's just nasty.) ... but I couldn't look away. I learned some things that were interesting, how the money changes hands at strip clubs, who gets what percentage, etc. What the different rooms and types of dances are... How strange some people really are. But, I have to imagine that a book written on this topic by a good writer would be significantly more interesting to read than this one.
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February 27, 2008 – Shelved
January 19, 2009 – Shelved as: non-fiction
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January 20, 2009 – Finished Reading

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Christine i completely agree with your review. i was really hoping this would be good after seeing Juno - but it was just a disappointment. the only thing that earned it a second star with me is that i found the subject matter to be interesting.


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