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Nora Ephron: I feel bad about my neck (2006)

I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman is a …

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This book was filled to the brim with sexist tripe and complaints that most of us, to be completely honest, do not have enough money to begin thinking about making. I could not stand it. (In the interest of full disclosure, I should admit that I could not tell whether she was trying to be satirical--which would make some of the sexist nonsense a lot more forgivable--or if she was speaking in earnest; I thought the first for a while, but her tone changed drastically in the last chapter. Who can say?)

At any rate, I don't believe in throwing away or burning undamaged books, but I also wouldn't want anyone else to have to read it, so I'm unsure what to do with the copy I wish I hadn't bought. I wish I could give it less than one star, anyway.