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Growgirl: Once Upon A Time She Made The Blair Witch Project. Then She Went To Pot. Literally. (2012)

by Heather Donahue(Favorite Author)

3.45 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1592406920 (ISBN13: 9781592406920)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Gotham

review 1: This girl really grew on me. The first two chapters are almost unreadable: she likes stream of consciousness with lots of commas, the story and her intentions for the story go every which way, and it's hard to believe it is not going to be an embarrassment to your bookshelf. But then she rallys and the story becomes really funny. The scene: a northern california gorgeous hippy commune with a steamy underbelly of narcissism and gross hot tub water. Heather has a strange knack for telling many embarrassing stories that you truly believe happend the way she said. Several times I gasped in wonder at how wrong things went for her. It reminded me of the film "Tiny Furniture" in that I couldn't resist the central character's hapless wrecking of her life, and at the same time admi... morered her approach so much. Also, pot farming sounds like a tons more work and anxiety than you'd hope. But it's true: they are making six figures and creeping off to Bali for half the year.
review 2: An enjoyable, easy-to-read trifle -- but not quite as awesome as I was hoping. I wanted to like Heather more than I did, and she used herself as the butt of the jokes so many times that after a while I couldn't tell if she was just being self-deprecating or whether she really was as incompatent and aimless as she kept joking she was.That said, I really enjoyed the descriptions of these pockets of west coast weirdo that I know so well. The northern californian glamourhippies, the burning man crew, the preposterous Gen Y hippie girls and oh man. SO many hilarious slices of stupidity I know so well. I totally loved Heather's affectionate jabs at people. I enjoyed this book and recommended it to several friends who are also familiar with the whole grow scene in california. less

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