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This book was written for young women between the ages of 19-25. Even though I am almost 40, I still found it to be insightful. I'd love to have a copy to put in my classroom for my high school students to read, but they don't know who Hepburn is, not to mention, they may not know who Hilton is either. This book is a bit dated, with MySpace references galore, and although I found the overuse of the exclamation point to be distracting, it is a good read. I'd love to see an updated version come out in the near future.
I just couldn't do it. I got through to page 89, and I had to do something I've never done before: say goodbye to a book, unfinished. The text is smothered in parentheses, exclamation points, and more Hilton-type colloquialisms than Hepburn-honed articulation. The first 50 pages are so dense with quotes from other sources, some sources even unreferenced because the author couldn't find the original, that it was hard to decipher any original thought whatsoever.
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