This is not a feminist book by any stretch of the imagination, but I thought this review was interesting. Notable excerpt:
Another thing: Kim is avowedly not a feminist, and she’s not at all kidding about it. Sexism is a waiter getting her order wrong. Systemic gender-based double standards that disadvantage the female and the feminine don’t come up. She likes Ayn Rand a lot and thinks she got a bad rap. She wasn’t freaked out about Trump’s election because she travels so much she figured she’d hardly notice any difference. And maybe it’s petty of me to notice, but at one point she takes the time to mention in print, for posterity, that the special eggs she gets from a farm come by the dozen. Of course eggs come by the dozen—that’s the customary unit in this country, you maniac. I might be blowing it out of proportion, but the egg comment made me think of Lucille Bluth, the wealth-addled matriarch from Arrested Development who famously asked, “How much could a banana cost? Ten dollars?” prompting her son Michael to reply, “You’ve never been to a supermarket, have you?”
Apparently they weren't the only ones getting Lucille Bluth vibes. There was this gold review on goodreads:
Once I was at a gallery dinner in LA and I was seated next to a collector type who was talking about how hard it is to keep white t shirts white. She said when she needed one for an outfit she would get a new one and then throw it out. But even so, she opined, it’s impossible to know where to find a good white t shirt when one is traveling in a foreign city. I said if she wanted to keep her white ts white she should use oxi clean, but if she insisted on single use she should just get the 3 packs of Hanes or whatever from Target or CVS. She smiled at me like I had an arm growing out of my forehead and then turned to talk to the diner on her other side.
I kinda think that lady was the writer of this book.
Lol! Imagine seducing a White T-Shirt Princess, hoping for a sugar mama, and then she writes a kiss and tell that uses your real name. And then Bret Easton Ellis blurbs it. It couldn't have happened to a nicer person,* which makes it even funnier.
*Her ex has written some really inappropriate things about the women he's slept with. Describing their bodies in graphic detail, humiliating things they did, etc. Sometimes he uses their real names and photographs. Turnabout is fair play, honestly.
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This is not a feminist book by any stretch of the imagination, but I thought this review was interesting. Notable excerpt:
Apparently they weren't the only ones getting Lucille Bluth vibes. There was this gold review on goodreads:
Lol! Imagine seducing a White T-Shirt Princess, hoping for a sugar mama, and then she writes a kiss and tell that uses your real name. And then Bret Easton Ellis blurbs it. It couldn't have happened to a nicer person,* which makes it even funnier.
*Her ex has written some really inappropriate things about the women he's slept with. Describing their bodies in graphic detail, humiliating things they did, etc. Sometimes he uses their real names and photographs. Turnabout is fair play, honestly.