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Be Awesome: Modern Life For Modern Ladies (2013)

by Hadley Freeman(Favorite Author)

3.43 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0007485697 (ISBN13: 9780007485697)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Fourth Estate

review 1: At its best BE AWESOME is witty and incisive: chapters 3 and 16 are, for example, brilliant parodies of Daily Mail headlines and fawning celebrity interviews, respectively. The rest of the time though, it's important, interesting subject matter is let down by the worst habits of modern columnists: namely an annoyingly glib, chatty tone, endless lists, pop culture references that won't hold up over time (one dig at Matthew McConaughy is already out of date) and, in the author's own words, "sarcasm and world-weary asides".
review 2: A book which was clearly written in the hopes of inspiring women through anger, but instead, leaves the reader angry through Freeman's self-absorbed woes and examples of her exaggerated reactions to being victimised by men, women, the... more film industry, men, shop assistants, her pregnant friends, men, her next-door neighbour's cat, men, and most of all, The Daily Mail.One wouldn't at all be disappointed to read such self-indulgent blathering if the book was not described as "to show you just how awesome life as a modern lady can be." Really, Hadley? Because this entire book is filled with personal anecdotes that would bore my grandmother's knitting society. Word to the wise? Don't call a book "Be Awesome" when it offers no actual advice and simply indulges your need to moan about anything and everything you could possibly describe as offensive to someone, somewhere. less

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